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| A film crew member gets the Prickly Pear sign ready for a scene. Highway Hasman photo |
It is not often one can pull over the side of the road and find a film crew on a movie set, let alone one on Route 66.
Better yet, the set was at a roadside motel several
blocks from home.
A couple of weeks ago at the Downtown Inn in Albuquerque people were getting
the hotel ready to film scenes from the Warner Bros. Pictures film “Coyote vs. Acme,” a live-action
and animated hybrid film based on the Wile E. Coyote cartoons. It starts John
Cena, of WWE fame, Lana Condor and Will Forte.
One of the things the crew at the Downtown Inn did was put up a fictitious neon sign named the “Prickly Pear.” They sprayed dirt and water on the new signage to make it appear it had been up for many years.
The sign has been taken down, but the memories will remain.
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