Brian presented at a conference in South Georgia earlier this week. Although it was a quick trip, Eli and I joined him just for fun. On the way home, we stopped in at Senoia, Georgia. Fans of the television show The Walking Dead will recognize this little town as the fictional Woodbury. (Click HERE for the show's official website.)
As soon as we headed up Main Street, all started to look very familiar. (And, yes, Cindy...Norman Reedus does walk these streets!)
Here's a fake bank and book store, both created just for filming. The windows are either replaced with opaque dark glass or covered with black plastic. You can't see in at all.
We talked to some of the residents and they seem to enjoy the hoopla that goes with filming. Apparently there is quite the juggling act to film quickly and then allow folks in to still use the downtown businesses. The shops have to close while the cameras roll, but between the film crews, the film-day rubberneckers, and the increased tourists, business is doing well in the town. Everybody said the show's actors are personable too. (The town hall, by the way, is set back from Main Street and appears to be a set built in an empty lot.)
There have been quite a few movies and television shows filmed in Senoia. (Click HERE to see the Internet Movie Database.) I was excited to see the Travis-McDaniel house, which served as the Threadgoode house in the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes. (Love that movie!)
Adventurers get hungry, so we stopped at the local treat shop.
Guess what we found inside? No. Not zombies (thank goodness...that quickly gets even messier than a four year-old with a chocolate ice cream cone). We found the bicycle from Mary Poppins!
It was quite the pop culture day!
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