Subject: "Fire Walk With Me" Visit (Part 1-long)
From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
Date: 1991-10-12, 11:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

My daughter started grad school at UW this fall.  We are 
both monster TP fans so when I heard that shooting on the 
prequel was going to start in Snoqualmie/North Bend in early 
September, I decided I would drive up with her to her 
apartment in Tacoma and we would make a pilgrimage and 
hopefully see some shooting.

We drove up to Tacoma on Sunday and decided to go over to 
Snoqualmie/North Bend on Monday. If it turned out to be 
their day off, that gave us at least two more days to score 
before I had to go back.

We pulled into North Bend about 10 am on the 16th and parked 
near the Mar-T. It was sunny and hot, so the "Save the Pine 
Weasel" t-shirt I was wearing was just the thing for the 
weather. No obvious signs of activity, though a lampost on 
the corner under the famous stop light had been knocked over 
or cut down to look as if it had been knocked over and there 
was indeed stuff in the corner building that looked like it 
might be movie related as someone had reported earlier.

We peered in the Mar-T and then walked up and down the main 
drag, looking for the Alpine Blossom Gift Shop where I hoped 
to get a map and some souvenirs.  We finally gave up and got 
back in the car and headed out of town for the sites that I 
already knew about (I made a trip by myself in May). We 
didn't go more than a block before I spotted the gift shop 
on the street that is right angles to the main drag and we 
stopped. That was our first, but not last, piece of luck.

Picked up a map and some souvenirs and headed off to visit 
the old sites. Found nothing at the falls, the bridge, 'TP 
Sherriff's Office', Roadhouse, et cetera.  Stopped for lunch 
in Snoqualmie and picked up a realtor map of the area and 
looked up trailer parks in the phone book since I had read 
here that they had shot stuff in one previously.  Three
were listed.

Found two of them, but no action.  The third was difficult to 
find. We almost gave up and started back for Tacoma
when we stumbled on it.  Then we got REALLY lucky.
They weren't filming there, (and it turned they 
hadn't filmed at it or the other two we checked earlier). 
However, we overshot the trailer park and as we slowed to 
turn around I spotted a bunch of trucks parked in a vacant 
lot.  Just beyond them was a really funky motel.  We 
stopped, got out and sure enough, there they were, filming 
at the motel.

(to be continued)