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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Back to the Future--shot where?
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 12:26:51 EDT
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> Does anyone know, or recognize, where Back to the Future was shot?
> 
> The vegetation, the license plates, and the "Bank of America" in the
> town square suggest non-coastal northern California.
> 
> One scene clearly showed a highway sign, for the intersection of (I
> think) U.S. 8 and U.S. 395.  But there is no such intersection--U.S. 8
> does not even enter California.  It's possible I don't remember the
> highway numbers correctly.
> 
> /Ron

Going strictly by the highway signs (it was U.S. 6 [not 8] and U.S. 395),
I'd say it was Bishop, CA.  I've only been there once, about five years
ago, and I don't remember the center of town too clear.  But, I'd say the
climate looked about right.

                               -- Walt Tucker
                                  Tektronix, Inc