A Stop At Willoughby, Ohio - Real Life Twilight Zone Town - The Junkers In The Twilight Zone

[@doberman1ism]

I live in Willoughby! Right off the downtown area, on the same street, in the same Sears & Roebuck Catalog Home that my grandfather built in 1925. I left and traveled for many many years and now I am back in the ancestral home where I have raised my son. It is a lovely community. Rod Serling worked at one of Our TV stations and wrote this episode while working there. His daughter attends our annual festival commemorating this nostalgic episode. 🎉

[@randyfreeze789]

Love the b&w! Captures the whole vibe of the town and the episode!

[@scottpeterson8388]

"A Stop at Willoughby" is my favorite Twilight Zone episode

[@SomeplaceOrAnother]

Neat little town 😁 I haven't seen that episode in years, cleaver video idea 👍

[@nickangelo116]

I'm from the area. Your video features some historic buildings from the early 1900's. The statue and cannon at 5:35 are from the Civil War. They're very old. You can find them in oldest of photos of Downtown Willoughby. You can Google it. I love Willoughby and the episode of Twilight Zone.

[@Colonel__Ingus69]

I'm from Marion, Ohio and Rod Serling worked at our local radio station WMRN for a few years. At that time there was a bar in town called the Twilight Zone that he would have drove by on the way to work. Ohio is well represented in the TV series.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

After that episode of the Twilight zone aired Willoughby created a neighbourhood festival called "Last Stop: Willoughby" in honour of the episode.

[@savagedaughter9904]

I had a discussion about this very place with one of my friends a few days ago and now to come across it in my feed was amazing!

[@bonniehagerty5859]

I need to live in Willoughby from now to my dying day 🤞

[@nationaltoolcompany]

Excellent work, Fellas. Thank you for producing this.

[@theologymatters4209]

Native of Willoughby here. I didn't realize anyone knew we existed 🤣

[@scottpeterson8388]

Welcome to the Twilight Zone

[@scottwilloughby8223]

I did.

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

Still don't

[@Leilani_Michelle]

Absolute favorite episode. Loved your video

[@scottwilloughby8223]

It would be nice if it’s easy living like the episode. Id move there.

[@scottpeterson8388]

Not to be a luddite, or perhaps I'm just seeing this through the rose-coloured glasses looking back through two pandemics of the calm and peaceful Willoughby of today. Given the choice, I'd, as in the Twilight Zone episode, choose, Willoughby circa 1988, in the summertime.

[@deb4578]

1888

[@DonWilkey2013]

Love this tribute video

[@tessala272]

Thank U from France you that was very interesting

[@jeffgreen7499]

Our band The Pickniks played concerts from on that gazebo in Wes Park a few times. You can see us playing here on KZbin(but not at the gazebo!) The flagpole in the park was erected by The Victoreen Company in 1905. Some scenes in the park you can make out old Willoughby Union High built in 1915. My mom graduated from this high school in 1936, my cousin Ernie was in the last graduating class here in 1957 because 2 new high schools were built(baby boomers!) But my 1958 high school was just torn down and replaced by a new building (in Eastlake) The "new" 1960 Willoughby high school is now a middle school. This is the Willoughby/Eastlake School District. The 1915 building now houses the school board.

[@007thematrix007]

no masks 😷 no social distancing, no probs.

[@DonWilkey2013]

No riots, no truck drivers running over people. Love the B & W recording.

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

Hell yeah

[@johnallen6945]

Well, I lived in Mentor right next to Willoughby when Rod Serling lived across the other side of Cleveland in Cuyahoga Falls. So I'm sure he heard the name Willoughby.

[@danielwilkins7509]

The train conductor, reminds of TOBIN BELL, a popular horror-film actor.

[@joseguzman6542]

Quiero comprar una casa en Willoughby. Sería muy bonito vivir allá

[@danielwilkins7509]

Are these two gentlemen, descendants, or other relatives, of ROD SERLING? Just curious. I heard he worked for a radio station, in that particular area?

[@tonymazz9912]

Maybe that's where they filmed it. A lot of RxR tracks throughout the country were taken away in time and paved over. So It's possible 🤔.

[@jeffgreen7499]

You go through downtown Willoughby, that's right on US Route 20, the longest road in the USA. Route 20 will turn to the left, but if you continue straight onto Erie Road you will very quickly being rolling across 2 sets of tracks separated by about 1/4 mile. Those used to be the Nickle Plate and New York Central but are now occupied by Norfolk & Southern and CSX. So, like in the Twilight Zone episode, even the trains are here. I lived here for 5 years 1972-1977, nice place to be. I grew in Eastlake which is the next city west, nice time for a youngster to be in this area. You can't see it from here, but after you cross the railroad tracks you will be only about 3-4 miles from the shore of Lake Erie. My friend Dave Anderson was the mayor of Willoughby for 25 years, his dad was my barber. Dave's brother Tom Anderson moved to california and was a producer for the TV sitcom "Cheers". Actually there once was a streetcar line that ran through Willoughby. It was discontinued in 1938. The repair building still stands in downtown and was converted in a restaurant and bar, The Willoughby Brewery(it's closed now). A long, long, time ago my mom sometimes shopped at the downtown Willoughby A&P grocery store. In 1958 my curiosity got the best of me, I saw a pile of rails over by the former repair shop, I went over and looked at them, the ones I saw were dated 1927.

[@danielwilkins7509]

Anybody, in this video, named,"BOYD"? Just wondering.