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re: Melancon's Cafe in Morganza (Easy Rider movie) Who's bright idea was it to tear it down?
Posted on 10/4/24 at 2:48 pm to JusTrollin
Posted on 10/4/24 at 2:48 pm to JusTrollin
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JusTrollin
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Was this a boomer movie?
You're no el gaucho
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Posted on 10/4/24 at 2:52 pm to 4x4tiger
Guy I use to work with, who was from Krotz Springs, told me that the shooting scene was filmed on HWY 105 between Krotz Springs and Melville.
He also told me that the front tire from the Captain America motorcycle was nailed to a tree where the scene was filmed for years until someone stole it.
He also told me that the front tire from the Captain America motorcycle was nailed to a tree where the scene was filmed for years until someone stole it.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 2:52 pm to S
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Morganza is pretty run down. That whole stretch of LA 1 from the bridge in Simmesport to just outside New Roads is really depressing.
Most river towns are these days
Posted on 10/4/24 at 2:54 pm to LSUMJ
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How would an empty building used in a 60 year old movie in a town no one goes to be a profitable tourist attraction?
It's not interstate traffic but a great many vehicles go through there everyday (Highway 1)
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 10/4/24 at 3:17 pm to 4x4tiger
My late wife's cousin was one of the girls in the booth. Lives in Lafayette these days...a kind and accomplished lady .
Posted on 10/4/24 at 3:50 pm to LSUMJ
There is a granite statue in the middle of field in Magnolia MS where a plane dropped out of sky that gets visitors. There is a corner in Winslow AZ that supports the whole town it looks like. No reason to think it couldn’t be worth it to keep a cafe from a movie there to maybe do some good for an otherwise down place.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 5:14 pm to 4x4tiger
I could see this cafe working in a kind of "Fred's Lounge" in Mamou kind of way with live Louisiana music.
I caught "Easy Rider" on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) one night and it is a worthwhile watch if you're in a 60s kind of mood (this movie was before my time BTW). It established the career of several young actors including Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda (all nominated for Oscars in 1969).
The movie's opening scenes feature a few classic Steppenwolf songs including "Born to be Wild" while they ride their choppers on the Great American Road Trip...... Here is the opening scene to "Easy Rider":
Easy Rider Opening Scene
I caught "Easy Rider" on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) one night and it is a worthwhile watch if you're in a 60s kind of mood (this movie was before my time BTW). It established the career of several young actors including Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda (all nominated for Oscars in 1969).
The movie's opening scenes feature a few classic Steppenwolf songs including "Born to be Wild" while they ride their choppers on the Great American Road Trip...... Here is the opening scene to "Easy Rider":
Easy Rider Opening Scene
Posted on 10/4/24 at 5:24 pm to The Korean
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There is a granite statue in the middle of field in Magnolia MS where a plane dropped out of sky that gets visitors. There is a corner in Winslow AZ that supports the whole town it looks like. No reason to think it couldn’t be worth it to keep a cafe from a movie there to maybe do some good for an otherwise down place.
If it were generating the money yall claim it could generate, it wouldn’t have been torn down.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 5:31 pm to Clashmore Mike
Right before the 40 fwy opened they rode out of Topock in Az which was on Route 66 on the Colorado river.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 5:44 pm to The Korean
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There is a granite statue in the middle of field in Magnolia MS where a plane dropped out of sky that gets visitors. There is a corner in Winslow AZ that supports the whole town it looks like. No reason to think it couldn’t be worth it to keep a cafe from a movie there to maybe do some good for an otherwise down place.
This.
People have made a lot less into tourist attractions. Easy Rider is a seminal film of the New Hollywood Movement and an American cultural icon. Seems like some like kind of grant could easily have been had to restore and maintain the building.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 5:58 pm to 4x4tiger
Speaking of movie restaurant locations------is the old Airline Motors Restaurant still standing? It was the place where Halle Berry worked as a waitress in the movie "Monster's Ball".
I know it's been closed for a long time now but used to eat there from time to time years ago when in that area. Loved the art deco look of the place.
I know it's been closed for a long time now but used to eat there from time to time years ago when in that area. Loved the art deco look of the place.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 5:58 pm to JW
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Trust me, if filmmakers followed the real path of local roads it would not be very entertaining. This is perhaps one of the most accepted creative licenses of them all to take.
There is another movie that was filmed in Terrebonne Parish that breaks that barrier of local roads and distance.
In a B movie that was filmed in the 1990's called First Love Last Rites that was filmed in Houma and Madison Canal. They show the bridge at Madison and male lead walking up the road to town to the old gas station by Terrebonne High school. That is over 20 miles of walking.
Plot is a little weak and sounds like a Skinamax special: (from wikipedia)
During a summer in Louisiana, Joey and Sissel are two young lovers fresh out of high school entangled in a consuming love affair. How the couple met is not disclosed, but Joey is originally from Brooklyn and Sissel is a local. In a house on stilts by the river, the couple do little more than talk and have sex, with the occasional interruption by Sissel’s younger brother Adrian. Sissel’s parents are divorced. Her father Henry, a Vietnam War veteran, befriends Joey, and the two men look into trapping eels with the aim of selling them to sushi restaurants. Jealousy and communication issues start to creep into Joey and Sissel’s relationship.
With a budget of 300k, it made only 47 thousand dollars in theaters before being regulated to the direct to video or cable market.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 6:21 pm to gumbo2176
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Speaking of movie restaurant locations------is the old Airline Motors Restaurant still standing? It was the place where Halle Berry worked as a waitress in the movie "Monster's Ball".
It’s a OTB now
Posted on 10/4/24 at 6:26 pm to Tarps99
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I always get a kick out of movies and out of place road scenes that make absolutely no sense to locals who drive in the same area.
Easy Rider was one of them. You see them going up LA 1 in Raceland by St. Mary’s Nativity and its cemetery. Then they somewhere near Amelia, downtown Franklin, and then end up River in Morganza.
Or in Deepwater Horizon where Mark Wahlberg drives to Fourchon then flies out from the Galliano Heliport.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 6:27 pm to 4x4tiger
I know it was filmed at Bears Den as well
Posted on 10/4/24 at 6:39 pm to JusTrollin
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Was this a boomer movie?
The cool thing about being a Gen Xer is I can hate boomers and millennials.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 6:43 pm to moe1967
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Guy I use to work with, who was from Krotz Springs, told me that the shooting scene was filmed on HWY 105 between Krotz Springs and Melville.
"Get a haircut...Hippie"
Posted on 10/4/24 at 8:39 pm to Clashmore Mike
The soundtrack was fantastic. Wore my 8-track out playing it over and over.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:25 pm to shutterspeed
The locals believe it painted them in a bad light. It did. They ganged up and brutally killed one of the heros. I would be upset if guys came to my town and used me as an antagonist in their movie. I doubt Dennis Hopper explained the plot honestly with them beforehand.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:29 pm to NickyT
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It’s a OTB now
Good to know they didn't tear it down. Is it still looking like it once did from the road or did they put up a new facade to modernize it????
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