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Quite a few years back, the Clint Eastwood film "A Perfect World" was filmed near here. After the film was complete, the cars used in the film(it was set in the early 1960s) were for sale. I took a look. The ones used for the close up scenes were restored very well, while the others just had sloppy paint jobs put on them. To make this film, a "Fake" building was even built in a small town near here. I guess the director did not think the town looked built up enough. The "fake" building was some power line type poles with a compsite (similar to compsite shingles) that had a brick pattern hung over them. At the front of this building, a plywood frame was built and a thin layer of concrete poured over it to simulate the entrance steps. Needless to say, this building did not last long after the movie was finished.
Another film about the Newton boys(small time robbers in the 1920s) was also filmed here. The interesting thing about that one was that a winter scene was filmed in July(in Texas) with fake snow, etc. My wife heard some of the extras complaining at a local burger place about having to wear overcoats in the July heat.
Second Hand Lions was also filmed near hear with a regular house being re-made to be the house the old men lived in. There was a very interesting article about the conversion in the local paper.
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