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Stumbled across this video about someone we have all seen several times.....She was Miss Torso, from the Hitchcock movie, Rear Window....She had quite a career...In some pictures she looks like Teri Garr...
 
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While watching High Plains drifter this morning, I remembered a trip I took to the location of the film shooting...I went there around 1993, after I had gone to the annual film festival in Lone Pine, California, the site of over a hundred movies....

When I was at the film location for HPD, there was more left from the shooting than this guy found.....Souvenir hunters had picked the place clean through the years...After the filming of High Plains Drifter, the site by contract with the state of California, had to be cleared away....

Mono Lake, which was the backdrop to the movie, was extremely eerie...There were these limestone projectiles protruded out of the water in many places, which gave the place a haunting feeling......
 
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These tours ares part of what you can do at the Lone Pine Film Festival....The tours are great...You can see where so many movies, not only westerns, but all types were filmed, at least in part....

In the background, you can usually see the often snow capped Sierra Nevada Mountains...The mountains, and the numerous boulders, always let the filmgoer know the film was filmed at Lone Pine...It is a trademark of the location...
 
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The Lone Pine museum really gives you a great background to the area....On one of my adventures into the area, I had made friends with a guy that had a lot of horses for rent to get a feel for the area....He was a cool guy. I had my girlfriend put on extra tight jeans to accent her made for Western Saddle buttocks...He really appreciated it...
 
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A little more of Lone Pine...We were so lucky to see a movie without any social meaning.....Just a damn good fun movie. Where did those days go.
 
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mudcat1973 said:

Anybody else have their house windows rattling.
From this this morning
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I was in my kitchen and heard a large boom and felt the floor shake as well as hearing the windows loudly rattle. My cat jumped about three feet in the air and ran for cover under the dining room table. It sounded like, what I imagine a sonic boom might sound and my first thought was an air force airplane station at McGee Tyson Airpot may have been flying extremely low over my house. While was not frightened, I was curious about what happened. After a few seconds, I started to wonder if it was an earthquake. In less than 2 minutes, reports of the quake were on our neighborhood email system. It was my first experience of an earthquake and I am thankful it was not stronger.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
I was in my kitchen and heard a large boom and felt the floor shake as well as hearing the windows loudly rattle. My cat jumped about three feet in the air and ran for cover under the dining room table. It sounded like, what I imagine a sonic boom might sound and my first thought was an air force airplane station at McGee Tyson Airpot may have been flying extremely low over my house. While was not frightened, I was curious about what happened. After a few seconds, I started to wonder if it was an earthquake. In less than 2 minutes, reports of the quake were on our neighborhood email system. It was my first experience of an earthquake and I am thankful it was not stronger.
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I had just started the dishwasher and stepped outside on the patio. Felt and heard it, thought the dishwasher had blown up. Strangest rumbling sound.

It ended up being a 4.1. This area has only had a 4 or greater one other time since 1900 and I was here for that one too. 1973, brand new freshman at UT, just back in the Carrick Hall dorm around 2 a.m. after a pretty good bender. Got momentarily scared straight. This one sounded like a freight train passing. Again, very strange experience for this area.
 
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