Posted on 02/10/2015 4:17:10 PM PST by rickmichaels
'Heeere's Johnny!'
Nope. It's actually David and Rebecca Wilson.
The Wilsons have been living together at the Many Glacier Hotel in Montana since October and taking care of the property during its off-season.
Although they don't have a son named Danny, the Wilsons are aware some are comparing their situation to that of Jack and Wendy Torrance in Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Many Glacier, which is located on the eastern edge of Glacier National Park, welcomes hundreds of thousands of guests each summer before it closes down for the year in September.
Now the vacation hotspot has only two visitors: Rebecca and David.
An employee of the hotel since 2008, David does maintenance work on the 76-acre, 100-year-old property.
This is the first winter he or Rebecca have stayed at the hotel to watch over it until things thaw out in the spring.
They will be battling snow, rain, wind, and occasional four-legged houseguests until April.
The Wilsons have seen fewer than ten people during their stay at Many Glacier and so isolated the only emergency vehicle that would be able to reach them is a snowplow, Yahoo Travel reported.
In order to keep their friends, loved ones and past guests in the loop about what has been happening at the Swiss-alpine style hotel, David and Rebecca post updates on their A Winter At Many Glacier blog.
They use the blog to post pictures, weather updates and information about the 'day to day life of the caretaker at the very remote Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And it's fiction. Remember fiction? It's not reality.
And, anyway, everyone knows that movies don't influence anyone.
Redrum.
Redrum
GMTA
>>>> No influence.... why does the Hollywood $$$_bankers keep shoving $$$$ at the black hole ??
SOME selected shots of that hotel in the movie are from Mt. Hood Lodge in Oregon. But it’s only certain shots, while the very next shot may be from a completely different place. You gotta know Mt Hood Lodge to recognize those particular shots.
Movies do that, mix shots from different places and make it look like the same place in the movie. I’ve seen that being done in other movies.
That’s an interesting life. I’ve been to that place.
The book was much better an scarier. It’s not a genre that I typically read, but I could not put it down.
One of the first signs I was getting old was when I watched The Shining with my then-teenaged niece.
When Nicholson stuck his head in the door and said “Heeeere’s Johnny!”, my niece promptly asked me who Johnny was. Matters weren’t much clearer when I said “Johnny Carson.”
*sigh*
Anyone want to share a glass of Metamucil?
Same here. “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” was torture after reading it.
It is. Estes Park,CO.
The posted story is quite an exaggeration. Some outdoor shots were filmed at Glacier National Park and the crew may well have stayed there. But the exterior hotel shots were done at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. Interiors were modeled after the Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite.
All work and no play...
They also take shots from the same place and try to make it look like different places, with varying degrees of success. The funniest example was Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Early in the film the train leaves LA which looks a lot like Toronto, then at the end it arrives in Chicago, which also looks a lot like Toronto.
DON’T go into room 237.
Anyone want to share a glass of Metamucil?
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Hell yeah! I got that stuff runnin’ in my veins! Well, maybe not veins, but ya know..
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