![]() ![]() ![]() Route 66 has log since been superseded by modern highways but it can roughly be followed in dribs and drabs.īehind the credits, Billy and Wyatt ride south on Park Moabi Road, from Park Moabi itself over the railtracks to what is now I-40, south of Needles on the California/ Arizona border. As you can see, there’s little left of this ghost town (named after the Australian gold town), apart from crumbling ruins, though there is now a little store where you can pick up the basics. The key scene of Wyatt tossing his Rolex to the ground was staged in Ballarat, east of Route 178, between Trona and Stovepipe Wells on the western edge of Death Valley. The profitable drugs sell-on (a cameo from legendary record producer, now convicted murderer, Phil Spector) was shot at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), but from there on the movie was filmed on the hoof across the American southwest. The cross-country journey proper, which follows much of the famed old Route 66, begins in LA. ![]() The opening scene, of Billy ( Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt ( Peter Fonda) buying their coke wholesale in ‘Mexico’, was filmed at ‘La Contenta’, which stood at 1302 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte in El Prado, just north of Taos, not in ‘Mexico’ but in New Mexico. This surprise low-budget smash of the Sixties, revolutionising the studios and launching not only dozens of variable quality imitations but the career of Jack Nicholson, was shot in sequence, apart from the New Orleans Mardi Gras scene, which was actually first in the can. ![]()
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