Opening Shot #2 – Footloose Filming Location

One of the opening shots from Footloose (1984).

The movie starts out with several quick opening shots, this one was looking North on Boat Harbor Road in Provo, Utah

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Bomont First Christian Church – Footloose Filming Location

The chapel in the movie Footloose (1984).

The Reverend Shaw Moore is the Pastor at Bomont First Christian Church in the movie, they filmed it at the historic First Presbyterian Church of American Fork in American Fork, Utah

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Opening Shot #1 – Footloose Filming Location

One of the opening shots from Footloose (1984).

The movie starts out with several quick opening shots, this one was looking East from up near the dump / land fill in Payson, Utah

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Roswell Darius Bird Sr. planted these White Ash-Silver Maple trees in 1892 where he build his house.

Other nearby heritage trees:

• Heritage Catalpa Tree
• Juniper Red – Edwin Whiting Historic Tree

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• Roswell Darius Bird Home
• Levi Kendall Home
• Mapleton City Park

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the LDS Church or the Mormons) has many Chapels, Tabernacles and Temples. Many of the old tabernacles stand out to me as some of the most amazing and gorgeous buildings around and I wanted a place to document the tabernacles I come across.

Wikipedia says there were “79 total tabernacles built during the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century, usually within areas of the Mormon Corridor that had predominantly Latter-day Saint populations. The largest such tabernacle is in Salt Lake City on Temple Square. The last tabernacle commissioned by the church was the Ogden Stake Tabernacle, built in the 1950s.”

• Alpine Stake Tabernacle (1914)
• Assembly Hall
• Bear Lake Stake Tabernacle / Paris Tabernacle
• Beaver Stake Tabernacle (1866)
• Blackfoot Tabernacle
• Blanding Tabernacle
• Brigham City Tabernacle (demolished)
• Bountiful Tabernacle (1862)
• Box Elder Tabernacle (1897)
• Carbon Tabernacle (1914) (demolished)
• Cedar City Tabernacle (1885)
• Ely L.D.S. Stake Tabernacle (1927)
• Garland Utah Stake Tabernacle
• Granite Stake Tabernacle
• Hollywood Stake Tabernacle
• Honolulu Stake Tabernacle
• Kaysville Tabernacle
• Lehi Tabernacle (1910)
• Logan Tabernacle (1891)
• Malad Tabernacle
• Manti Tabernacle
• Montpelier Tabernacle
• Morgan Stake Tabernacle (1882)
• Moroni Tabernacle (demolished)
• Nebo Stake Tabernacle (demolished)
• Ogden Tabernacle (1869)
• Old Salt Lake Tabernacle (1852) (replaced with the Assembly Hall)
• Panguitch Stake Tabernacle (1880)
• Paris Idaho Tabernacle / Bear Lake Stake Tabernacle
• Parowan Tabernacle
• Provo Tabernacle (1859)
• Randolph Tabernacle (1914)
• Rexburg Tabernacle
• Richfield (Sevier Stake) Tabernacle
• Salt Lake Tabernacle (1867)
• Smithfield Tabernacle (1902)
• Star Valley Tabernacle (1909)
• St. George Tabernacle (1867)
• Uintah Tabernacle (now the Vernal Utah Temple)
• Summit Stake Tabernacle (1899)
• Wasatch Stake Tabernacle (1889)
• Wayne Stake Tabernacle (1909)
• Weber Stake Tabernacle
• Wellsville Tabernacle

Growing up in Springville, Utah it was normal to see statues everywhere. We call it Art City, there’s an art museum and other art every place you look.

Some of the individual pieces are listed here:

• Abraham Lincoln
• Blaze’s Frogs
• Boy with Butterfly
• Candice
• Captured, But Not Conquered, by Cyrus Dallin
• Chief Washakie, by Cyrus Dallin
• Crystal
• Don Quixote de La Mancha: Knight of the Windmill, by Cyrus Dallin
• Duet
• Everyday Hero
• Father Joaquin Reliefs
• Field Marker
• First Love
• Fish Tender
• Forever With You
• The Last Council and “Passing of the Redman” by Cyrus Dallin
• Looking Back
• Mark Twain
• Melvin the Frog
• Miss First Base and Man on the Mound
• Mother and Child
• Navajo Water Carrier
• Pioneer Family
• Pioneer Mother
• Protest
• The Sentinel
• September
• The Crow Shaman
• The Slant Artist
• Snow Time
• Spring Dance and Spring Dance
• Stepping Stones
• Swan’s Flight
• Victory Memorial (in the park)
• Victory Memorial (in the museum)
• Water Play
• Wet Paint
• Will’s Barrow

Here’s a video I put together of some of it.

I love Main Street Mount Pleasant, Utah, it’s a gorgeous downtown.

Here are some of the posts related to that area.

• 160 W Main – Gentile Store
• 152 W Main – Sanpete County Co-Op
• 146 W Main – Mt Pleasant Commercial Savings Bank
• 140 W Main –
• 130 W Main –
• 122 W Main – American Cleaners
• 115 W Main – City Hall
• 104 W Main –
• 96 W Main – Seely-Hinckley Building
• 90 W Main –
• 95 W Main – Beauman Gas Station
• 86 W Main – Confectionary
• 85 W Main –
• 80 W Main –
• 76 W Main – Meat and Produce Company
• 74 W Main – Equitable Block Building
• 68 W Main – Grocery Store Building
• 67 W Main – Liberal Hall
• 62 W Main – Wasatch Block
• 57 W Main – Telephone Office
• 50 W Main – Geographical Center of Utah
• 49 W Main – Ericksen Grocery
• 48 W Main – North Sanpete Bank
• 41 W Main – Fairview Bank
• 40 W Main – Dental Office Building
• 36 W Main – Palace Pharmacy
• 34 W Main – Lundberg Block Building
• 33 W Main – M.E. Nelson Building
• 22 W Main – August Lundberg Building
• 14 W Main – Consolidated Furniture
• 1 W Main – Johnston Drug Store
• 1 N State St – Rodger’s Dairy Freeze
• Other
  • Carnegie Library
  • Mt. Pleasant Monument
  • Mt. Pleasant National Guard Armory

This building was erected in 1937 by Ray Bohne. It was built for the telephone company to use as an office. In 1962 Ray and Valene Johanson bought the building for a floral and gift business. In 1963 they added the east side and the rear of the building.

This entire park property was owned by Edward Robinson (1807-1896). In England, Edward had been the first conductor of the famous steam locomotive known as the “Rocket”.
Edward and his family came to Lake City (American Fork) as converts to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the request of Church leaders in 1853 Lake City residents began to move their homes and build a fort. Edward is depicted in this statue as a memorial to all those settlers who built their portian of the fort wall behind their homes in 1858, the fort was not needed and they relocated their homes around the community.
Edward built his home, farm buildings and raised a large family and garden on this land. Edward build a six room adobe home near the corner of Main and 100 East. He planted lilacs, trees, flowers and especially roses. It was known as “Robinson’s Rose Corner”.

In Edward’s older years, a grandson, William Edward (Will) Robinson (1866-1919) and his wife lived with him. In 1896 Edward died and Will became the owner of the adobe home and the East half of the property. Will died in 1919 and his wife sold their property to American Fork City in 1920 to be used as a park.

The West half of the property was owned by William Smith Robinson (1840-1936), a son of Wdward and Father of Will. Willian S. was born in England and as a child was very ill. Brigham Young, as an L.D.S. Missionary in England, blessed William S. to be well and to live to a “ripe old age”. William S. also known as “Curly Bill”, built a red brick home facing Main Street, next to his father’s home. Curly Bill, in his later years, gave permission for American Fork City to purchase his home and property upon his death which occurred in 1936. He had lived to be 95 years of age.

American Fork City developed the property by demolishing the two homes, planting lawns and trees, building a band stand, tennis courts and horseshoe pits. On May 26, 1947 the park was dedicated as the “William S. Robinson Park” as part of American Fork City’s State Centennial Celebration.

A fourth generation of Robinsons, Myrtle R. Seastrand (1891-1973), daughter of William Roninson, was the catalyst for building this Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) Monument in 1959. The monument marked the original South Wall of the fort and was a platform for the old City Hall Bell. Where it the bell today? In 2006 the City Bell was relocated by the City and DUP to the restored City Hall Bell Tower.

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• Fort Wall At American Fork
• Parks in American Fork
• The Carnival – The Sandlot Filming Location

William S. Robinson Park, located at 59 East Main Street in American Fork, Utah

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Another in my collection of filming locations for movies and TV shows.  Visit this page for more.

Filming locations I’ve come across for The Sandlot.

• The Neighborhood
• The Drug Store
• The Sandlot
• The Pool
• The Tiger’s Field
• The Carnival
• The Dog Chase Part 1
• The Dog Chase Part 2

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