Subject: The Real Twin Peaks
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-07-16, 18:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

My wife and I just got back from a really delightful trip to Twin Peaks!
Okay, okay, we actually stayed in Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Falls City.
Happily the locals report that they are still getting visitors from Norway,
France, Spain, and other places around the globe.  They are still doing
a brisk business in TP-related goodies at the Alpine Blossom & Gift Shop.
And the Mar-T (Double R) Cafe is still selling cherry pies by the boat-load
(well, actually by the bus-load, to the people who show up on the weekly?
bus tour of the Twin Peaks area from Seattle).

I was actually happy to see over a hundred postings waiting for me on this
group when I got back (thanks folks for making TP that much more enjoyable).
I was sure awfully unhappy upon hearing about Kyle MacLachlan's possible
squelching of the movie deal (*ESPECIALLY* since it was to be a 3 movie
deal!!!).  Hopefully he will rethink his plans.  If not, I may have to switch
from an avid KM fan to one who boycotts any movie he appears in (sorry to be
so vindictive, but he's messing with the most important and affecting media
source that I've come across in a very long time).

Anywho, I could give a sort of trip report that might be interesting to
folks - I did discover a few tidbits that haven't appeared on the net
before, but I thought the first thing I'd do is post the items and prices
available from the Alpine Blossom & Gift Shop via phone-mail order.  You
can just call them and give a credit card number and have a wealth of
amazing TP stuff show up in your home!  And they are delightfully prompt
about orders, too.  (They were out of stock on a couple of items while I
was in town, but they took my order last Wednesday, and the materials
showed up here at my home today, Tuesday; I get the feeling it would have
been even quicker if they hadn't had to wait for their supplier!)

I have no affiliation with these folks, but they are very nice, and offer
a lot of great TP stuff.  I had even called them before I visited the area,
not to order anything, but to ask for recommendations on accomodations.  I
tried to be as polite as I could, but was still worried that this might be
too much of an imposition or something; however, instead of being short with
me or just blowing me off entirely, they were very helpful and full of
personal suggestions.  I'll pass those accomodation recommendations on as
well if anyone wants.

Over the next week or so, I'll try to contribute a bunch more stuff I found
there and elsewhere recently, including some public relations press
releases from the local towns on Twin Peaks, a HyperCard stack that has
*all* of the shows synopses, credit lists, etc., and a bunch of newsclippings
that a friend of mine had been saving.  Actually, the HyperCard stack is
*very* big... should I post it?  Should I just send it to whoever manages
the audrey.sait.edu.au ftp site?  I'll binhex it for transfer, but should
I also unix-compress it?

So.  Here's the neat stuff available from the Alpine Blossom & Gift Shop.
They're not very cheap (and at least the TP Trading Cards are available
much cheaper elsewhere), but they try to keep all this stuff in stock, and
they're still adding things to the inventory (the calendar listed later
is not on the photocopied list of these items they provided me with), but
is a new item.  [The comments in square brackets are mine. All others are
theirs.]

Alpine Blossom & Gift Shoppe
P.O. Box 808
North Bend, Washington  98045
206-888-2900

** T-Shirts **  Sizes:  Medium, Large, Extra Large   $14.95

1. Twin Peaks Sheriff Department
   (Black shirt with Twin Peaks Sheriff Department log on front)
   [my favorite T-shirt.  they also have white, but I prefer the black;
    be sure to specify.]

2. "BOB"
   (White shirt with drawing of "BOB") Message reads, "Have you seen this
    man?"  "If you have seen this man, please call Sheriff Harry Truman,
    Twin Peaks Sheriff Department.
   [fairly nice rendering of the classic police-artist's sketch]

3. Twin Peaks High School - Phys Ed Department
   Grey shirt Nadine wears in the show
   [great shirt]

4. Log Lady
   White shirt with a picture of the Log Lady.  Message reads, "Log Lady"
   [lot of red, and a bit garish, but I had to have one]

5. Cherry Pie
   White shirt with large piece of Cherry pie.  Message reads, "Twin Peaks"
   "Where pies go when they die!"
   [nice, attractive shirt]

6. Coffee Break
   White shirt with Waldo's empty bird cage on front of it.  A tray of donuts
   sits beneath the cage and blood is dripping on the donuts!
   Message reads "Coffee Break - Twin Peaks Style"
   [not that attractive, but so wonderfully sick and tacky that I had to
    get one for me and one for another sick friend]

7. Laura Palmer Prom Picture Shirt
   White shirt with Laura's prom picture

8. Laura Palmer Video Shirt
   White shirt with Laura video picture
   [actually, I only saw black shirts in this style.  the "video picture"
    is a rendering in silver of the Laura closeup from the James/Donna/Laura
    picnic videotape.  quite nice.  better specify shirt color.]

9. Twin Peaks Logo
   Black shirt with green Twin Peaks logo
   [this is just the words "Twin Peaks" written in the appropriate font
    between two triangles.  pretty boring, especially when the exact same
    "logo" is combined with all the neat icons in the next shirt.]

10. Twin Peaks "Icon"
    Black shirt with symbols from the show - pie, coffee, donut, Douglas fir,
    domino, log, prom picture, etc.
    [close contender for coolest shirt (with the Sheriff Dept. one)]

11. Snoqualmie Valley "The Real" Twin Peaks
    White shirt with blue and green opeming scene - mountain and "Welcome
    to Twin Peaks" sign.
    [probably only of interest if you actually visit the area and want a
     special remembrance.  not particularly attractive.]

12. Twin Peaks - Where it's Cherry to be Knotty!
    White shirt with glittered cherries and Douglas Fir Trees.
    [obviously a local effort.  i wish i'd stared at it a little longer,
     but i think it was pretty oogly.]

13. I Know Who Killed Laura Palmer
    White shirt with tourquoise lettering
    [also a local effort.  again wish i'd stared at it a little longer,
     but i certainly gave it a miss.]

** Other stuff **

Magnets - $2.95 each (Mar-T Cafe, falls, train depot)
          [i think the Mar-T and falls were pretty nice.  the train depot
           is pretty, but i don't think it ever appeared in the show.]

Mug - $5.95
      Ironstone mug with mountain scene reads "Twin Peaks Coffee Break"
      on front and "Good Cup of Joe" on the back
      [kinda plain, but neat]

Laura's Diary - $8.95

Agent Coopers Tapes to Diane - $9.95

Sound Track to Twin Peaks
      Cassette Tape - $9.69
      CD - $13.95

Twin Peaks Gazette - $3.95 each (all 3 issues available)

The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper - $8.95

Twin Peaks Trading Card Set - $28.00

Twin Peaks Pins - $2.95
  [err, uh, what pins?  i don't recall seeing these.]

Twin Peaks Framable 5x7 photo cards with history of show - $2.99
  [well, these are really just a bunch of different postcards with the same
   wraparound backing that has few blurbs about the show.  i'm pretty sure
   that all the backings were identical.  there was one postcard with a
   high aerial shot that shows the falls, the Great Northern (Salish),
   the mill (Packard/Weyerhauser), the river, the trees... pretty all
   inclusive and quite nice.]

Earrings - cherry pie & coffee earrings - $19.95 set
  [kinda tacky, but certainly appropriate!]

Coming soon!  Twin Peaks 1992 Calendars...
[well, actually, they're here! - I think they are $10.95, and sound pretty
 neat.  I'll let you know when mine arrives (I ordered it yesterday).]


Couple of final tidbits... you can order by calling the number given above,
and charging items to Visa, Mastercard, or Discover over the phone.  You can
also send your order and a check to the address given above.  They have
an 8.2% sales tax, and a 15% shipping charge; they ask that you figure both
of these into your total if you are sending a check in the mail.  They note
that most items can be shipped the same day they receive your order, and I
think I believe them.

Again, I have no affiliation with these folks, but have had nice experiences
with them.  Tell them Netnews or Usenet or "the computer network" sent you
(and maybe me, too).  I tried to explain briefly that I would place their
ordering info on an electronic network, but I could pretty much tell from
the blank looks I was getting that I wasn't getting an ACK.

See ya on the funway!
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder