But for now, here are a few places that made me curious, or homesick or both. I’ll also be transferring some of the other pertinent info from that thread over to here, so all the good stuff is in one place. Oh, Boston you’re my home .
The Kentucky was your typical bar of its time, what would now be classified as a ‘dive’ but was the type of mens bar you found all over every major city (not many left in Boston). It has brought back many fond memories. I went to Northeastern and graduated in 1982. An instant classic, George V. Higgins’s 1972 fictional debut The Friends of Eddie Coyle was as much a play as a novel: a sort of La Ronde of crime fiction, elegantly suggesting in a series of interlacing dialogues a dance of exploitation and betrayal never quite spelled out. In the heart of Boston itself, Detective Foley (Richard Jordan) meets up with bartender-informer-hitman Dillon (Peter Boyle) in the barren red-brick and concrete expanse of City Hall Square. He can usually tell you where all those shopping centers and bars were. I love this movie! | Thanks for this post, I’ve only been living in Boston for twenty years so it was great to see the 1973 Boston. I’m right there with you LJC – both on the Old Kentucky and Paul’s book- which I just ordered. Copyright 2020 Retro Roadmap. I received this email recently and thought it would be good to add to this thread: I can’t tell how excited I was to see my family’s bakery in your blog “1970’s Boston Movie Fun — Name That Location! I only know b/c I’m the product of 2 Dedhamites , Br.
Oh, forgot to mention . They used Dana’s in Lowell, MA for the soda fountain scene and exteriors, and supposedly right down the street from there (in the movie) was the Roxy theatre. "It's a grubby, violent, dangerous world.
Speaking of shopping, I love how they used a real shopping bag from the local Stop & Shop grocery store to hide the contraband weapons in.
Hello Dan – There was only 1 Cafeteria Scene as far as I am aware. Just look at all those cool old cars!
Wasn’t signage better back then or am i just an old bastard?! What a cool slice of history!
I remember hearing Bette Middler’s version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy on the car radio when sitting in that parking lot when I was a kid and thinking it was the coolest song ever- what random things your brain remembers, huh?
Filming Locations (16) Filming Dates (1) Filming Locations. how cool was that Barbo’s sign! I recall one in the movie was filmed in Cardell’s in Harvard Square, which is not near any T entrance, but movies can be edited to trick you into thinking that two locations are a lot closer that they actually are.
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