Gas-s-s-s (1970)

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Last updated: September 6, 2019


AKA: Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, Gas, Gas! Action Adventure. A gas is released that kills everyone over 25. Starring Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Pat Patterson, George Armitage, Alex Wilson, Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams, Bud Cort, Talia Shire, Country Joe and The Fish. Filming locations: Acoma Pueblo, Albuquerque, Belen, Grants, Socorro.


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Animation

Urban Views/ Campus (SMU?) - Dallas?

etc.

Big Bend in Highway/ Visit Oracle

Biggest Used Car Dealership West of the Mississippi

Playing Ball - Nob Hill???? Probably not....

Junkyard - Socorro! Baca's Wreckers? Guesstimate:

Goehrings Body Shop, 100 Smith Rd, Socorro, NM 87801

Baca's Wrecker Service - 1291 NM-1, Socorro, NM 87801

U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer, 1313 NM-1, Socorro, NM 87801

Motorcycle arrives - mesas

Mountains

(Looks like Bosque del Apache)

NB I-25 - Lemitar exit 2 miles? Or 1? If 1, then: (34.172809°, -106.921109°)

Driving up Rio Grande Valley

66 Drive-In
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/56631
4800 Central Avenue SW,
Albuquerque, NM 87105

http://www.studio-nibble.com/di/
Actual address is probably 7019 Central Ave. NW

SB I-25 near Lemitar (34.190041°, -106.924866°)

Socorro Plaza

Is this Socorro High School? Maybe not. Likely Belen High School.

Socorro General Hospital

Big Field. Framed house. Sandias visible. Belen? On the mesa above Belen, to the west.

TERA?? Old aircraft.

Near Lemitar again.

Levine's Store - where is that? I don't remember!

NM Tech Golf Course! Approximately (34.073169°, -106.911784°)

Golf cart chase ( 34.068647°, -106.909492°) Ben Vereen actually uses the phrase "All That Jazz."

Spherical building

Roads at TERA

Pinnacles - Pretty. Don't know where. Gallup?

Acoma overlook (34.940546°, -107.608624°)

Bowlin's Running Indian - near Bluewater - Where is this trading post? - Rattlesnake Trading Post, Bluewater, NM - Bowlin's Old Crater Trading Post
https://neverquitelost.com/2015/12/04/the-trading-atkinsons-of-route-66/
http://route66times.com/l/nm/bluewater-rattle-snake-trading-post.htm
(35.294254°, -107.987085°)

Climbing to Acoma

Acoma - near church