Not a landmark, but as this is Social, I’ll mention that there was a TV show (maybe Buffy) where a character regularly wore a T-shirt from the ice cream shop in a local Midwestern town of under 20,000.
My favorite example of this was when I was vacationing in Chimney Rock, NC and hiked the very trail trail that was used in Last of the Mohicans, which we watched that evening. In the first frames of this clip you can see the lateral trail that we traversed over the chief’s left shoulder.
^ My dad was a safety engineer for a gravel mine when they filmed the movie, and he would often see actors in full costume/makeup eating in the local restaurants. I sure would’ve liked to run into Eric Schweig. Yum.
My mother-in-laws curtains! There was a crime drama set in my home town and while I was watching it, my ex said ‘that’s my house!’. His parents had sold the house and the new owners and allowed it to be used to used as a location in this series.
Many of films are made were I live. In one scene… a shot from all angles can be shot from all parts of the island… odd to watch. One moment actors on one side and the next shot they are 40mins away.
I think it is in the first season. . Maybe even the pilot. I don’t know if he has an account with Fluther. I wonder what celebrities have Fluther accounts? That would be cool.