Highways / Signs in Movies, TV Shows, and Videos

[kurumi]

"Stanley & Iris" (1990; Robert deNiro, Jane Fonda) starts with a panoramic shot of Waterbury, Conn. and the I-84 / CT 8 interchange (about 2 minutes in).

Viewable online, but potato quality (30 years ago): https://tubitv.com/movies/306949/stanley_and_iris

[cwf1701]

What they're calling I-194 looks more like an I-94 business loop.

Which they got wrong, since (1) I-194 in Michigan should be signed along with M-66, and (2) I-194 is North-South, not East-West.

Streetview of the real I-194 in Michigan: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2608934,-85.1810323,3a,75y,132h,72.74t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svxyAJ74DFITH0kDN-NPjfw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DvxyAJ74DFITH0kDN-NPjfw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D289.4756%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

[D-Dey65]

I just spotted this image from the 1997 remake of "That Darn Cat."

https://imgur.com/a/gTomj9b

Is there a wrong-way concurrency with a stolen sign here, or did the people who install it really not know if the route is heading south or north?

BTW, I hate how imgur has made it so you can't post pics in sites like this anymore!

[Max Rockatansky]

I just spotted this image from the 1997 remake of "That Darn Cat."

https://imgur.com/a/gTomj9b

Is there a wrong-way concurrency with a stolen sign here, or did the people who install it really not know if the route is heading south or north?

BTW, I hate how imgur has made it so you can't post pics in sites like this anymore!

That Darn Cat was a remake?  Is someone going to remake Birdemic and The Room next?

[D-Dey65]

I just spotted this image from the 1997 remake of "That Darn Cat."

https://imgur.com/a/gTomj9b

Is there a wrong-way concurrency with a stolen sign here, or did the people who install it really not know if the route is heading south or north?

BTW, I hate how imgur has made it so you can't post pics in sites like this anymore!

That Darn Cat was a remake?  Is someone going to remake Birdemic and The Room next?

I sure hope not. 

Hayley Mills at her cutest:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059793/mediaviewer/rm607221248

[ozarkman417]

You still can. I don't know what method you used previously, but I simply right-clicked the image and clicked "copy image location" to get the proper link.

[D-Dey65]

You still can. I don't know what method you used previously, but I simply right-clicked the image and clicked "copy image location" to get the proper link.

"Copy image location" wasn't there. I had to copy the link and post it in the "insert image" button. There was "copy link" though, and when I loaded it, the page had a link with "Embed post" with copy and share buttons, but they didn't help.

[D-Dey65]

New image; A scene on the late-1960's Hanna-Barbera show "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" with stock San Francisco footage showing a big pre-1971 "Do Not Enter" sign over a typical red and white "Wrong Way" sign (yes, I know the footage is really crap here);
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_192309-Ford-Ranch-Wagon-1965.html

I still say the red circle "Do Not Enter" signs that we see in the US existed before 1971.

[thenetwork]

New image; A scene on the late-1960's Hanna-Barbera show "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" with stock San Francisco footage showing a big pre-1971 "Do Not Enter" sign over a typical red and white "Wrong Way" sign (yes, I know the footage is really crap here);
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_192309-Ford-Ranch-Wagon-1965.html

I still say the red circle "Do Not Enter" signs that we see in the US existed before 1971.

Not sure if it makes any difference, but if that came from the "Pop Cop" music video, then that sign set-up above was from St. Louis along I-70, and the film was made around 1968-69.

[D-Dey65]

Ahh, I always thought they filmed strictly around San Francisco. My bad.

[Route66Fan]

A scene from the 1983 ABC made for TV movie, "The Day After", that was filmed at the intersection of MO 7 & SR EE, North of Harrisonville, MO..

Location where the scene was filmed.

[Max Rockatansky]

A scene from the 1983 ABC made for TV movie, "The Day After", that was filmed at the intersection of MO 7 & SR EE, North of Harrisonville, MO..

Location where the scene was filmed.

That's a pretty damn bleak movie too, not what one would expect from what networks cranked out back then.

[tchafe1978]

I-85 shows up in the background of the video for the some "Sleeping Dogs" by Zakk Wylde

https://youtu.be/3Pv7jAKIPa0

[STLmapboy]

Dallas Buyers Club is so obviously shot in New Orleans (US-90 BGSs for Claiborne Ave appear in the background at one scene).

Also, Den of Thieves is mostly shot in Atlanta despite being set in Los Angeles, and this is extremely obvious (wire-hung traffic lights, bare trees for winter, no concrete freeway overpasses, etc.). A few overhead/background shots are in LA, and the characters use LA street names like Gage and Slauson, but everything else is Peach State proud.

[kurumi]

Hüsker Dü's "Makes no Sense at All" has a low-def shot of US 12 in MSP, 15 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sYN0PuRs4

[D-Dey65]

There was a Farm to Market 794 shield in a room in Young Sheldon.

Old message, but there was also an episode of Young Sheldon where George drove Sheldon to a museum (possibly in Houston) and left Medford, Texas south along US 59.

https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/File:George_drives_Sheldon_out_of_Medford,_TX_along_US_59.jpg

[Max Rockatansky]

I noticed most of the opening scene of the fourth Fast and the Furious movie was on (mostly abandoned) Ridge Route Alternate south of Pyramid Lake.  I believe someone mentioned it above but the same locale appears in Captain Marvel. 

[bing101]

Also, Den of Thieves is mostly shot in Atlanta despite being set in Los Angeles, and this is extremely obvious (wire-hung traffic lights, bare trees for winter, no concrete freeway overpasses, etc.). A few overhead/background shots are in LA, and the characters use LA street names like Gage and Slauson, but everything else is Peach State proud.

Not shocking for Atlanta to be used as an alternative site for filming due to costs of doing a film near the CA-134 freeway where the West coast branches of the film investors are based in the Los Angeles area.

[bing101]

Tom Scott takes a tour of a road in Yate, England where a stub of a planned now abandoned motorway is used in films to look like an active motorway.

[cwf1701]

I seen a Episode of M^A*S*H (set during the Korean War) which had signs from Ohio. in the Episode, Klinger has a dream of getting off a train in Toledo (he step out of his office and enter a street scene of Toledo). in the Scene i seen a US-25 and a OH-2 sign, with signs pointing to Sandusky and Cleveland (via OH-2). Where in real life did US-25 and OH-2 intersect in Toledo during 1950-53, and what was the other Ohio state highways that was seen in the dream scene?

[kenarmy]

The Miz (Mike Mizanin) has a "101 Hollywood" sign in his entrance theme. And I'm sure you can see a glimpse of 101 in Beyonce's crazy in love and diva videos, they both have parts that were shot on Mission Street and The 4th Street Bridge.

[thenetwork]

I seen a Episode of M^A*S*H (set during the Korean War) which had signs from Ohio. in the Episode, Klinger has a dream of getting off a train in Toledo (he step out of his office and enter a street scene of Toledo). in the Scene i seen a US-25 and a OH-2 sign, with signs pointing to Sandusky and Cleveland (via OH-2). Where in real life did US-25 and OH-2 intersect in Toledo during 1950-53, and what was the other Ohio state highways that was seen in the dream scene?

To answer the first part of your question, SR-2 (Airport Highway) and US-25 (Detroit Ave) originally met a few miles southwest of downtown Toledo at what is now SR-2 and US-24.

Toledo
https://maps.app.goo.gl/jEbzjdGYwonFTpni6


Historically, that intersection lies 2-3 miles away from Toledo's Union Station, so there was a bit of location "leeway" back then in that particular scene.

Nowadays the modern day SR-2 and *SR*-25 intersection is a bit closer to the train station (after the several 1986 route changes in Toledo).

I haven't seen that episode of M*A*S*H in years, but IIRC, US-68 was another route on that assembly.  That route did indeed end in Toledo in the 50s, but I don't believe it ever intersected with US-25 in downtown Toledo.

[kenarmy]

DID YOU GUYS CATCH THE EAST K-191 SIGN IN THE SUPERBOWL COMMERCIAL??

[Max Rockatansky]

DID YOU GUYS CATCH THE EAST K-191 SIGN IN THE SUPERBOWL COMMERCIAL??

Yes, but the what the hell was it even supposed to be about?   

[Big John]

^^ It was a Jeep ad where the driver gets off K-191 to get on an unpaved road.