Subject: Twin Peaks Travelogue / Souvenir Shop
From: webb+@cs.cmu.edu (Jon Webb)
Date: 1991-06-10, 09:48
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I made the "pilgrimage" to Twin Peaks (Snoqualmie, WA & nearby towns)
Saturday.  Here's some impressions. 

The Salish Lodge (exterior shots of The Great Northern) is appropriately
snooty and far more expensive than The Great Northern -- like $300/night
for a room.  You have to reserve for breakfast a week in advance -- "two
to three months in the summer"!  So if you go, plan ahead.

The falls are shorter than they look in the show.  Still, they're quite
impressive.  A sign says they were an object of mystery and power for
Indian tribes.

The Colonial Inn (exterior shots of the Roadhouse) is a pleasant diner,
not expensive, and a good place to pick up some pancakes with maple
syrup, ham, and a cup of joe.  Also a map telling you where the other
exterior shots are around town.

The Mar-T Cafe in North Bend (exterior shots of the Double R) is filled
with Twin Peaks posters.  They sell the Twin Peaks Gazette on the candy
counter, just as if it was the local paper (though at $4 each).  Today's
headline: "Twin Peaks Host of Bizarre Chess Murders."  Everybody there
is fond of Twin Peaks, was my impression.  They're having some sort of
rally for the show today, concurrent with the broadcast of the last
episode.  Their cherry pie, however, is not too fine.

Down the street from the Mar-T is a store that has more Twin Peaks
souvenirs than any other store, probably:

Alpine Blossom and Gift Shoppe
P.O. Box 808
North Bend, WA 98045

(206) 888-2900 or 0336

They'll take orders over the phone.  They have T-shirts, coffee cups,
the books, the tape, the trading cards, etc.  The map they sell there
isn't nearly as nice as the one at the Roadhouse.  The souvenirs are
expensive -- I paid $15 for a good-quality T-shirt with the Bob poster
on it ("Have you seen this man?" has a nice double meaning, these days).
Two other especially good shirts: one with a color photo of Laura
Palmer, and another with a color shot of the falls and the caption "Twin
Peaks -- you are a stranger here but once."

Also near the Mar-T are the abandoned railway cars.  Even wrapped in
(blue) plastic they gave me a shiver as we drove by.

-- J