Post by roddmatsui on Jul 6, 2008 9:28:04 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I have been checking out this message board and it looks great...all kinds of interesting discussions! I have been a fan of Phantasm since "the old days," as we say...
And here is my little story about Fosselman's Ice Cream, located in Alhambra, California.
I can definitely say, that the day I realized that the ice cream store I had been going to, on and off, for more than 20 years had been used as a Phantasm location--that was a very weird and shocking day to me. This was about a year ago.
Fosselman's Ice Cream store. After I saw the "Phantasmagoria" documentary in which Reggie Bannister mentioned "an ice cream store in Alhambra," I thought, "Now wait a minute. I'm IN Alhambra. Is that place still in existence??" So I looked up the listings for ice cream stores, and started driving around looking at ice cream stores in the area. There weren't too many of them.
I saw a couple of stores that looked like they might be that place, but only if significant remodeling had been done. I wasn't sure about those places, but I figured that so many years had passed that the place, IF it still existed, could very well have changed a lot. I was scratching my head at that point, wondering if I could really find out what had happened to this store.
And eventually I ended up eyeballing Fosselman's Ice Cream--which I knew from many years back.
I used to buy ice cream there, and at one point when I had a need for large plastic containers with lids (fill with cement and stick a PVC pipe in there...instant movie light stand!), I would go there to buy their used 3-gallon ice cream containers for 50 cents apiece (a good price!). So I had been in this place often enough.
I had been watching the deleted scenes on the DVD, featuring the scene inside the store...so I knew what the place looked like on film. I strolled into the Fosselman's store, and looked around, and slowly, slowly, I had the realization that this was the place.
What was more shocking was that the place had remained almost the same, since the scene was filmed there. Down to the colors of the paint, the furniture, the lighting fixtures, the handcrafted signs on the wall behind the counter.
Later I learned that a few people were already aware of this store as a part of "Phantasm" history, but my personal discovery was something of an experience! It felt like an adventure in my own backyard.
Photos in next post!
And here is my little story about Fosselman's Ice Cream, located in Alhambra, California.
I can definitely say, that the day I realized that the ice cream store I had been going to, on and off, for more than 20 years had been used as a Phantasm location--that was a very weird and shocking day to me. This was about a year ago.
Fosselman's Ice Cream store. After I saw the "Phantasmagoria" documentary in which Reggie Bannister mentioned "an ice cream store in Alhambra," I thought, "Now wait a minute. I'm IN Alhambra. Is that place still in existence??" So I looked up the listings for ice cream stores, and started driving around looking at ice cream stores in the area. There weren't too many of them.
I saw a couple of stores that looked like they might be that place, but only if significant remodeling had been done. I wasn't sure about those places, but I figured that so many years had passed that the place, IF it still existed, could very well have changed a lot. I was scratching my head at that point, wondering if I could really find out what had happened to this store.
And eventually I ended up eyeballing Fosselman's Ice Cream--which I knew from many years back.
I used to buy ice cream there, and at one point when I had a need for large plastic containers with lids (fill with cement and stick a PVC pipe in there...instant movie light stand!), I would go there to buy their used 3-gallon ice cream containers for 50 cents apiece (a good price!). So I had been in this place often enough.
I had been watching the deleted scenes on the DVD, featuring the scene inside the store...so I knew what the place looked like on film. I strolled into the Fosselman's store, and looked around, and slowly, slowly, I had the realization that this was the place.
What was more shocking was that the place had remained almost the same, since the scene was filmed there. Down to the colors of the paint, the furniture, the lighting fixtures, the handcrafted signs on the wall behind the counter.
Later I learned that a few people were already aware of this store as a part of "Phantasm" history, but my personal discovery was something of an experience! It felt like an adventure in my own backyard.
Photos in next post!