Movie Footsteps in Reno HISTORIC RENO PRESERVATION SOCIETY
1. NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM & OLD RENO ARCH
Cars owned by mary Pickford, Elliott Gould, John Wayne and James Dean; one used in Titanic and one that inspired The Great Race
1960s Arch: Cobb (1994)
…cross Renaissance parking lot to :
2. RIVERSIDE
The Women (1939), Charlie Chan in Reno (1939), Desert Hearts (1986), Blind Fury (1989)
…south of Riverside:
WASHOE COUNTY COURTHOUSE & HISTORIC MARKER
The Misfits (1960), Pffft! (1954), Edie & Pen
…cross S. Virginia to:
3. MAPES SITE
The Misfits, Desert Hearts, California Split (1976)
…plaques show building; art exhibits celebrate Burning Man
….continue north on Virginia Street
4. CAL NEVA/VIRGINIAN
Waking Up in Reno (2000), In Cold Blood (1996), Edie & Pen (1996), Letters from a Killer (1998), Love Ranch (2008)
…nearby: Nugget (Up Close and Personal); crosswalk (Mafia!-1998); alley for Diamonds
5. HARRAH’S RENO
The Deep End (2001), Matilda (1978), The Misfits (plaque), Sister Act (1992)
6. HARRAH’S PLAZA, FORMERLY HAROLD’S CLUB)
Fathers’ Day (1996), Imaginary Crimes (1994), Kill Me Again (1989), Sister Act (1992), Five Against the House (1955)
…Five was one of many projects using UNR: Apartment for Peggy (1948), Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble (1944), Hilda Crane (1956), Margie (1946), Mother was a Freshman (1949)
7. RENO ARCH
Sister Act plaque; Breaking the Rules (1989), Body and Soul (1997), Diamonds (1999), Edie & Pen (1996), El Cortez (2006), Fathers’ Day (1997), Into the Wild (2010), Love Ranch (2010),The Motel Life (2010), The Pledge (2001), Smith (2006), Thunder Over Reno (2008), Tricks (1997), Unbeatable Harold (2006), Up Close and Personal (1996), Waking Up in Reno (2002).
…previous arch with four diamond shapes moved to the City of Willits and shows up in movies made between 1963 and 1986 including:
California Splits (1974), Matilda (1978), Melvin and Howard (1980), Stacy’s Knights (1984)
8. WHITNEY PEAK (FORMERLY FITZGERALD’S)
Love Ranch, The Pledge, Sister Act, Waking up in Reno
9. ELDORADO HOTEL
Body and Soul, Pink Cadillac
10. SILVER LEGACY
Kingpin, Waking Up in Reno
11. CIRCUS CIRCUS
The Cooler (2002). Former wedding chapels on this spot featured in Promised Land (1986); Breaking the Rules (1992), Desert Hearts (1986), Melvin and Howard (1980), My Blue Heaven (1990)
…turn east to Lake Street
12. NATIONAL BOWLING STADIUM
Kingpin and Bill Murray
13. AMTRACK STATION
Desert Hearts and museum inside