Harold & Maude filming locations

topic posted Wed, February 25, 2004 - 1:40 PM by  Kevin
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here's links to websites with filming location info for H&M. I've been to almost all the locations. last time I visited Harold's mansion, it was painted salmon pink.

www.geocities.com/RainFores...table.html

www.norcalmovies.com/HaroldAndMaude/
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Kevin
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  • Re: Harold & Maude filming locations

    Fri, March 4, 2005 - 12:03 PM
    The church where they are talking with the high school band outside was in downtown Palo Alto. Don't know if its there anymore, but I used to wait for the bus there everyday and think about Harold & Maude.
    • Re: Harold & Maude filming locations

      Tue, January 17, 2006 - 5:54 PM
      The church is still there.

      My brother, Daniel, was in the cast of Harold and Maude: The Musical...he played six roles including Uncle Vicktor, The Priest and The Therapist...

      We both grew up in Menlo Park (which is next to Palo Alto). I remember going up to "the picnic tree" and getting stoned many times with friends, alas that tree is no longer there...

      I actually saw them filming on the old Dumbarton Bridge and at the court house in Redwood City (where Maude "takes" the tree.)
  • Re: Harold & Maude filming locations

    Tue, March 8, 2005 - 2:51 AM
    one thing i find very odd is no site mentions where the rail car is located....
    www.wrm.org
    • Re: Harold & Maude filming locations

      Tue, March 8, 2005 - 6:41 PM
      Here's one site:

      www.geocities.com/RainFores...tions.html

      " Maude's (railroad car) home Oyster Point Boulevard near the intersection of Eccles in the City of South San Francisco, CA. Walk approximately 75 - 100 feet from this corner towards the bay and you'll be at the spot. This area has been developed significantly, and doesn't much resemble the scene from the film."
      • Re: Harold & Maude filming locations

        Wed, March 9, 2005 - 11:36 AM
        where the railcar is currently, not was for filming
        • Re: Harold & Maude filming locations

          Wed, March 9, 2005 - 6:53 PM
          Just found this:

          www.geocities.com/RainFores...chive.html

          "Name: Rick
          Hometown: San Francisco
          Sent: 16.29 - 15/8

          There's one thing missing from this site. Maude's home was a railroad car known to be parked at Oyster Point. But where did the car come from and where is it now?

          The car - Western Pacific lounge 653 - was leased from the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction in Solano County (about 60 miles east of San Francisco) and moved to its filming location. As a lounge car built in 1931, the car had seen years of service. When the studio painters arrived to install the fake fireplace shown in the film, they had the mean job of matching interior paint colors. "Jesus.", said the head painter, "This is years of nicotene on the paint. How am I going to match this crap!"

          When filming was finished, the car returned to the Museum. And, yes, the fake fireplace still survives but is no longer mounted inside the car."

          I wrote to the museum to see if the above info. is correct and if so, if the car is still in their posession. Hopefully, I'll hear back from them within the next day or two.

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