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I recently heard that two local locations only a 1/2 mile apart from each other were being transformed into old old las stations for a movie being filmed in a 1961 year setting. I was able to donate a homemade gas pricer, but not really sure if it was used or not.

When I drove by on sunday, the GULF Station didn't look like much. But up the road a 1/2 mile was a potato barn that the set people transformed into Buzz's SKELLY. The movie was filmed yesterday starring Justin Timberlake and are supposed to appear as 1961 midwest gas stations.

You can clearly see at the SKELLY station depending on where you stand that parts of it were added on and not part of the original barn.
It was cool looking like a trip back in time 50 years ago. See if you can spot what's wrong with the pumps though. wink

The SKELLY station:







The GULF Station:
Getting an Edsel delivered....



and an old phone booth....



HERE'S A WRITE-UP IN THE LOCAL PAPER: http://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2012/03/35352/hollywoods-comes-to-riverhead-for-a-day/


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Someone should have coordinated the ad glass with the globes...


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The pumps at the Skelly station are Gulf pumps.


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The nozzle returns and hose outlets are on opposite sides of the pumps????

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globes were put on wrong pumps


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Originally Posted By: KZ1000
globes were put on wrong pumps

Yup!think that will be in the movie?lol


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I wonder if they got the idea for "Buzz's" Skelly from the book Pump and Circumstance, Glory Days of the Gas Station, which features Buzz's Skelly on the cover

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Originally Posted By: Stevo
I wonder if they got the idea for "Buzz's" Skelly from the book Pump and Circumstance, Glory Days of the Gas Station, which features Buzz's Skelly on the cover


I thought about that as well.


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I didn't think Long Island had a lot that could look Mid West ......... Interesting . Ed Shaver


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...had some comments on the first four responses of this thread, but I changed my mind and will only say - it looks cool to me!

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Originally Posted By: eshaver
I didn't think Long Island had a lot that could look Mid West ......... Interesting . Ed Shaver


I'm thinking why didn't they just film it in the midwest?

Still very cool that they did it here though. smile


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