When I was very, very young I used to love the Channel 4 series Northern Exposure and now all these years later we live just down the road from where it was filmed. Lots of it was shot inside a studio/warehouse in Redmond which is at the top of the lake we live by but the outside shots were all filmed in Roslyn – a small town just over the mountains to the east.
Today Harry had a soccer match over the cascades in Ellensburg and on the way back from the match, which the Gunners were very unlucky to lose 1-0, we stopped off in Roslyn. I probably should have watched a couple of episodes before I went there to refresh my memory as I haven’t seen it for about 17 years but I did recognize 2 or 3 places.
The most obvious was the cafe:
This was the radio studio where Chris used to broadcast the “Chris in the morning show” each morning:
And this was the tavern, which I think is one of, if not the oldest, continuously operating bars in the US at just over 100 years old – that’s ancient American history for you!
Fortunately we didn’t plan a day trip here as there was not much to see or do but I did see the odd fan about gazing at the buildings (the radio building).
Now I need to watch the series again just to get back into the swing of it and see what else (if anything) I recognize. Still, that’s another thing to cross of my list of places to go!