Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe
From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: _Back_To_The_Future_: shot where?...
Message-ID: <1491@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 21:29:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1491
Posted: Thu Sep  5 21:29:28 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 06:02:24 EDT
References: <212@uw-june>
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
Lines: 27

In article <212@uw-june> dtuttle@uw-june (David C. Tuttle) writes:

>>> 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.

>>Interstate 8 intersects U.S. 395 in San Diego, CA. --But it is not
>>called 395 anymore. It's 15 now. But if they were back in time ...hmmmm

>No, it wasn't Interstate 8, but US Highway 8.  And, apparently, this doesn't
>even make it to California (although I have yet to get silly enough to
>check a map).  I still vote for Lone Pine, CA  (where else can you find
>a Lone Pine Mall?!? :-)

The last time this question came around, it was asserted by someone who'd
been to the Universal studios that the town center is in fact on the
Universal lots.  Apparently the only location shots are those of the mall,
the road to town, and possibly the house exteriors.

Charley Wingate

"I say this because I want to be prime minister of Canada someday."
         -- Michael Fox