Phoenixville covered in a national AP story!

[dontuhatepants]

Mainly about the Blob...discuss and nitpick away!

When 'The Blob' came to town
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/18/blobtown.ap/index.html

Comments

[we_like_ike]

In real life, this happens: Each summer, hundreds of locals and folks from as far away as Oregon and Jamaica come to the center of Phoenixville. They visit the house where the doctor "died," stop by the strip mall where the market once stood, eat at the diner on the site where the alien met its frozen end. And, on Phoenixville's main drag, on a warm summer evening, more than 400 of them run screaming from the same theater, the Colonial, in a joyous re-enactment of the movie's big scene.

Kinda misleading, since half those places aren't in Phoenixville.

Otherwise, a good piece, i guess.

[the_karen_show]

i like that part about eating at the diner. y'know, since its all shrink-wrapped.

[we_like_ike]

see, now i'm confused. I'd always heard the diner actually wasn't the Vale Rio, but was the Downingtown one.

[dontuhatepants]

That's true, the diner in the Blob is in Downingtown, not the Vale.