I just moved into a place in St. Helens, OR, overlooking a marina on the Columbia River, northwest of Portland. One interesting thing about St. Helens is that it is the location where they filmed much of the Teen Vampire Romance™ trilogy, Twilight.
Apparently it makes an ideal location for a film set because the downtown is almost entirely devoid of anything resembling commerce. It is also apparent that some viewed this temporary state of affairs as the basis for an economic renaissance. This (not my photo, but this was open when I arrived in this area)
became this:
And I don’t know if this place
existed before Hollywood came knocking, but this is definitely NOT Beverly Hills, but rather a particularly seedy district along Hollywood Boulevard:
At least this place appeared in one of the movies (or so I have read), but was decked out as a dress shop or something.
Other than the foibles of a handful of delusional individuals, though, this is a quaint little town, and I look forward to spending a few quiet months here, at least until Mount St. Helens blows its top, and we are all barbequed in an enormous pyroclastic cloud.
More photos, of places which may or may not be identified in the Twilight saga, may be found HERE.
btw… there aren’t really any vampires in St. Helens. Just some people with REALLY bad teeth…
Happy to have you in town, Robert! …Though, I wish you’d have kept that whole Twilight thing a secret. 😆 Don’t want people to know that I live in the town where that atrocity was filmed. :p
P.S.Love the photos!!!