More Filming Locations of The Last Picture Show - Archer City, Olney, Holliday

[@IWanttoBelieveYou]

Wow! It’s so cool to go back and see the places used in these films. It’s really cool to see what they look like years and years later. Thank you for sharing!!

[@Jettrey33055]

Thank you.i still watch the movie once every year.

[@simplicity28]

Very cool locations quite pretty place. Looks so clear and very nice view.

[@onlocationwithscott]

Thanks for the tour James... good job on the info from the movie and the pictures from the movie and today's locations

[@KathysOutdoorAdventures]

Fun information! You really know so much. Thanks for sharing your fun facts!

[@SouthFloridaThrifter]

I'm obsessed with this little town and don't know why. I guess because of The Last Picture Show. My dad grew up out in Wickett, TX, and the movie makes me think of how the kids must have felt out there. My mom grew up in Luling, which is actually growing, believe it or not. Sometimes I think about moving back to Texas, somewhere nice and normal, and helping out a place like Archer City hang on and maybe even grow. No place like Texas, that's for sure. Loved seeing the videos.

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

It does make you wonder what will happen to some of these little towns as time passes. My mother is from a town much like it called Menard. It's not on a major highway, so very few reasons to pass through it. It's a nice little town though.

[@terryazamber1021]

I understand your obsession completely. I read the books several times and I had seen the movies. One of my favorite books is Texasville. When I was living in Kansas, I decided to get a Texas teaching license and take my tests in Wichita Falls in 2012. I was there for three days so I decided to go over to Archer City. The old high school was still there when I visited the town and all of Larry McMurtry's bookstores were still open. I had such a strange feeling as I drove through the town. I felt like I had lived there once before, but everyone I knew had moved away. I found myself reluctant to leave. I was teaching in Oklahoma and Kansas, but in 2018 I got a teaching job in Wichita Falls. I knew immediately that I wanted to live in Archer City. It isn't easy to find a place there, but I got lucky. I was only able to stay there a little over a year before I ended up taking a job in another part of Texas, but Archer City felt like home and still does. The people are wonderful. If you live there, it isn't hard to figure out how Larry McMurtry managed to write several books about the place. There's a quirky charm to the place. For example, once the weather is nice, people drive around in golf carts. They even stop in the middle of the road to visit with someone who is walking or in another golf cart. They aren't on their way to the golf course. It's just something they do, roam around town in golf carts. They even go through the drive-through window at Sep's Liquor Store in their golf carts. There isn't a single community event where there won't be at least one golf cart parked along side the cars. It's a quiet, peaceful, fun place to live. There's no mail delivery to the houses. If you live in town, you have a free post office box and all of your mail is sent there. At first I was appalled, but the townspeople told me, "Oh, you want to go to the post office. That's where you'll see everyone." They were right. I loved that system once I got used to it and now I miss it. The Archer County Rodeo is so much fun. I may move back there someday after I retire. It still feels like home. I'm fairly sure the old Wells Fargo bank on Center Street was where they filmed Randy Quaid's scenes in the bank in Texasville. The Spur Hotel has most of its business during dove hunting season. If you are in town, Murn's Cafe and Lucky's Cafe have great food. Of course, Dairy Queen has good food too. The visitor's center has a pamphlet they put out on the filming location in The Last Picture Show, but it doesn't mention the locations for Texasville. In the Dairy Queen they have framed clippings of articles from when Texasville was being filmed in the town.

[@SouthFloridaThrifter]

@@terryazamber1021 what a great story!! I think if you grew up around these really small texas towns, they just have a special place in your heart. I know small towns exist elsewhere, but it's just not the same. I actually have a live job search for Archer City but nothing ever comes up. Yes, maybe when I retire, too, I'll bring my smile and character to Archer City. 😍

[@stanfischer6175]

@@terryazamber1021 I recently lost my great Aunt Mildred who lived her entire life in Olney. It was always great fun for me to go visit her, I would marvel at the quiet stillness compared to my native Houston. I would drop my parents off at her place and then hot foot it in the car to Archer City! As a fan of McMurty it felt like a pilgrimage. Its incredible of the following he created. My parents originated from Lee County, Tx from Lincoln and Fedor from generations of German farmers. There is just something so special about the Texas that I dearly love. A couple of times I had to go on business trips to places afar like Ann Arbor, King of Prussia, Chicago and Minneapolis. All I wanted to do was to go back to Texas because everybody made fun of the way I talked.

[@Mandyglen]

Fascinating tour 😊 great upload 🌈

[@susisutor]

Thank you so much! Great views and interesting comments!

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Conversationswiththecurious]

This was awesome!!!!! ❤️🎬🎬📽📽📽🎥🎥🎥🎥

[@FoxyEscapes]

Thank you for sharing this info. I had no clue about this. What fun places to go look at.

[@TheNDTShow]

Neat information on the place love the photos and capture footage

[@PassingThroughProductions]

Excellent video, beautiful locations.

[@texaslifejulie8533]

I loved the video James. Always special info to me as I grew up close to there. Still my favorite part of Texas! 👍

[@burningsandsexploration3711]

I really enjoyed that movie. This is an interesting video. Thank you!

[@THE_EXPLORER]

great place,thanks for sharing

[@hebneh]

When I saw Ruth Popper's house (and the Coach, her husband) I thought that couldn't be right because I knew there hadn't been a big tree in the front. Well, of course there had been a little tree when the movie was made, but 50 years later, it had grown!

[@lujangaming2354]

Like 8 my friend keep it up 👍

[@DestinationEarth]

I like that you showed the scenes from the movie with it - makes a big difference.

[@AgionOros]

Great holiday trip my friends and cool to find all this film locations

[@GlentheDayTripper]

Great video. The tree in front of Ruth Popper’s place grew Hugh. Really enjoyed this. A ton of information I knew nothing about.

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

Captures a place & time and burns it into the heart. I've been comparing and contrasting The Last Picture Show with What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The brilliance of the Last Picture Show is how it doesn't need music to bring the ending to a climax. I also love how the southern women are portrayed in The Last Picture Show with the young ladies being quite pretty, but the elder ladies on a higher level of gorgeousness.

[@DirtyShoesAdventures]

I didn't realize they did any filming in Holliday....that was cool. I went to school there :-) Really interesting stuff there James. Great research and delivery!

[@markfletcher8084]

Good update.

[@randystone5571]

It is the house they used in the film

[@FunniestUnfunnyGuy]

Awesome as always educational for me. When I become famous you can show my past houses infact I'll give you a personal interview. You do a great job. Smile and laugh often my brother

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

You'll have to keep that couch potato pandering party banner in good shape. We'll need that for the thumbnail.

[@FunniestUnfunnyGuy]

@@AViewFromTheMiddle yep will do my friend

[@74Spirit1]

Thank you for going back. I do wish our troupe of students from Perrin should have spent a summer in Archer City in the 1990's. Would have had a chance to be in Texasville, like I had a chance to be in Pure Country because I could have got in one of the Fort Worth concerts. Most of the schools in the area have been redone.

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

I wish I had thought about trying to be an extra for Texasville. Some friends of mine were in the crowd scene in a Steve Martin movie called Leap of Faith, and another friend had a couple of background scenes in Born on the Fourth of July.

[@distlledbrewedreviewed]

Extremely interesting and fantastic job finding these spots my friend.

[@jwallen158]

The Dr pepper sign seen in the movie painted on the side of the building next to the spur hotel is still there but badly faded.

[@josephortiz4826]

Great Film

[@VGProductionsVGC]

Very nice trip, It looks like loads of fun. =)

[@viktorijastudio8085]

Like 22, so cool old stories 🌸🌸🌸

[@WhereToNextDad]

Hi, we love your videos, like #6

[@LadyStrzygaDiscoversThePast]

Great. Thank you for sharing.👍

[@DIYG-dad]

Great share my friend

[@shaunedwards4893]

Went to school in Holiday Texas. In the 70s..lived on Lake Kickapoo. Got bored in the summer. Rode my bike all the way to Archer city. Crazy thing I did. Could have been killed on the lonely rd.

[@technocrath1]

The locations from 1971 compared to present day, it's almost surreal, a lot of the past still remains. Archer would be a fun place to visit especially now because it's not so crowded. Great video share, like 25, really enjoyed it.

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

It's a nice little town

[@dennisruby4952]

I just found out that Larry McMurtry has passed on. He was responsible for writing the stories that led to 3 of my favorite movies. The Last Picture Show, Terms Of Endearment and Hud. Writers with this much talent don’t come along very often and I am sad to hear of his passing. Job well done old friend.

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

Aw heck I heard them bring his name up on the radio but missed the context. That's a shame. He will be missed

[@TJMcCorkle-z2u]

My dad was in texasville in the baseball scene when Jeff calls his dog to come to him you can see my dad walk in the back he's a tall man with a baseball cap on I was born and raised in Archer City

[@majamilosevic2148]

Wow enjoyed watching your video my friend 👍🤗❤🔔 LIKE

[@TheStephensonGrechFamily]

that was great some fab places

[@ItStartsWithAStep]

Cool to see the location looks very similar to the movie :) must be a cool job looking for filming locations

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

I would love to have that job. And I hear the movie companies pay very well if they use your property in a movie.

[@sinansn6499]

Look like video nice thank you 👍

[@TJMcCorkle-z2u]

Rig wam driven inn back when I was living there a guy used to own that place that redone your boots and your cowboy hats

[@SherrySherry]

Not familiar with the movie, but it's always fascinating to see the comparisons to movie locations 👍😊👍🎞️‼️

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

It's a pretty good movie. And my hometown even gets a shout out in the sequel Texasville.

[@JosephK-sh8mp]

Looked better back in 1970.

[@Rob-eo5ql]

13:14 I think you’re standing on the spot where Billy was hit by the truck in TLPS

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

I didn't think about it at the time, but yeah it was right around in there.

[@terr777]

RIP Larry McMurtry.

[@Unmaredilana]

Like #30 for you! 😉 👍👍👍

[@hebneh]

When "The Last Picture Show" was released, 1951 seemed like the dim, distant past because so much had changed in American culture by 1971. In reality it had only been 20 years.

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

I talked about that in a video once. There was a vast difference between 1951 and 1971, just like there was a vast difference between 1971 and 1991. Then you look at 2003 compared to 2023 and the differences at least visually are not that much different.

[@jasonrusso9808]

I was going to say something similar. If we use the first movie's timeline, 1971 filming/ 1951 setting & twenty years has passed then it can't possibly be 1991 filming/1971 setting? Could it. Texasville looks pretty 1991 to me. So......did forty years pass?

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

Texasville was actually sometime in the 80s. I'm not sure exactly what year, maybe around 81 or 82. At the beginning of the movie you hear a reference to President Reagan on the radio.

[@jasonrusso9808]

@@AViewFromTheMiddle ok so 30 years had passed. I wasn't sure I only saw the preview for Texasville on KZbin, I haven't seen it yet. Obviously I love TLPS.

[@jetpetty1613]

when people in Olney found out what the movie was about, it caused quite a stir lol

[@jetpetty1613]

thats what I was told by someone who was there in the early 1970s

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

Oh yeah it caused quite a stir all around. Even in Archer City. Funny because the people there now embrace the movie and are quite proud of it. At least the ones I talked to were.

[@jetpetty1613]

yes, for sure! Im in the "history biz" (so-to-speak lol) in Young County. It's definitely something people are proud of nowadays 😊

[@talkswithhandswhisper649]

look how young the tree

[@dcotai2902]

.... All long gone... Folks

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

What's long gone?

[@josephortiz4826]

Where did the name of the town come from??

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

Archer City and Archer County were named after Branch Tanner Archer. He was a Speaker of the House and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas.

[@nangmuaha3235]

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[@johnbowman1076]

I just hope they don't tear down the Picture Show before I get a chance to visit the town.

[@johnbowman1076]

And nice work, btw. ty.

[@AViewFromTheMiddle]

I don't think they would ever tear it down. The movie was a little scandalous back then, but the people living there now are proud of it.

[@onlocationwithscott]

1st !!!

[@azizcagin]

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