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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: BTTF:Production Design
Message-ID: <6500@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:56:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 17:56:55 1985
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References: <2984@topaz.ARPA> <218@lzwi.UUCP>
Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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In article <218@lzwi.UUCP> psc@lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>In article <2984@topaz.ARPA>, Boebert.SCOMP@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>>       Does anybody know which town they redecorated?
>
>I hate to tell you this, but the downtown area in BACK TO THE FUTURE
>looked a lot like the generic downtown in the Universal studios lot.

Having been on the lot the day I saw the movie, I can answer this definitively:
The downtown scenes from BTTF were shot on the "Town Square" lot at Universal.
Incidentally, the cats on either side of the clock are the same ones used
in the remake of "Cat People".

                                                        -- Scott