Comments on: March filmfest looks back at movies with a link to Tempe https://wn.calicoeng.com/2020/03/01/march-filmfest-looks-back-at-movies-with-a-link-to-tempe/ Tempe & West Chandler The Place We Call Home Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:31:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Kerry https://wn.calicoeng.com/2020/03/01/march-filmfest-looks-back-at-movies-with-a-link-to-tempe/#comment-83272 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:31:34 +0000 https://www.wranglernews.com/?p=23076#comment-83272 You left out Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. By far more familiar to today’s audience than the previous movies. Although only a short skit of the movie, it was the infamous Circle K (and introduction to the iconic time traveling telephone booth & “Rufus”, the boys guide to how time travel works) scenes which lit off a small budget movie into a cult classic for Generation X. You can find the original movie poster still hanging framed inside at the infamous Circle K location at Hardy & Baseline. It looks today nearly identical to the way it did in the movie minus the pay phone (not the time traveling booth, an actual pay phone if anyone remembers those) on the West side of the South facing store. The ice machine and newspaper stand are still there, thought I think the latter now dispenses New Times papers.

And though not filmed in Tempe per se, don’t forget the other valley locations included in the movie such as the Waterloo Waterpark (Mesa’s Sun Splash) and the ice skating scenes filmed at Phoenix’s Metro Center at I-17 & Dulap/Peroria (though the rink was taken out many years ago and replaced by an arcade)

Cheers
Kerry Hamlett
Tempe, AZ

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