Fall City in Snoqualmie Valley, Washington is home to several Twin Peaks film locations including Hap’s Diner, the Bookhouse, Big Ed’s Gas Farm and more. There is one more business in the area that almost became a film location for Twin Peaks: The Return. In Part 12, Sarah Palmer has a moment while shopping for groceries at…
In a year that has been filled with immeasurable loss, it is with heavy heart that I pen this Love Letter to Clark Middleton. He played Charlie in Twin Peaks Season 3 on Showtime and passed on Sunday, October 4 at age 63 after contracting West Nile Virus. Appearing in four episodes, Clark’s character Charlie left a…
One thing has been troubling me, Agent Desmond – the film location of Deer Meadow mountain behind us. Good news, Sam, I’ll explain it to you. You see the mountain is located in Olallie State Park just outside of North Bend, Washington. I first visited this spot during a rainy Tuesday on September 17, 2019,…
In Season 3 of Twin Peaks on Showtime, we return to the Fat Trout Trailer Park. This was one of my favorite locations from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and was featured in the first article from the “Vacant Peaks” series in April 2018. Today, I’m giving the new Fat Trout the same vacant-treatment but examining…
In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Carl Rodd, manager of the original Fat Trout Trailer Park, delivered his famous line to Special Agents Desmond and Stanley: “I’ve already gone places. I just want to stay where I am.” At the New Fat Trout Trailer in season 3, we catch a glimpse at one of…
In Twin Peaks Part 12 on Showtime, Sarah Palmer has a strange shopping experience at Keri’s Handi-Mart. This is the only time we see the grocery store in the series. While it’s not included in the “Twin Peaks Access Guide to the Town” or mentioned at any other time in the series, the scene is…
In Twin Peaks Season 3 on Showtime, Gordon Cole’s FBI team stay at a hotel in Buckhorn, South Dakota. The hotel’s exterior was shot in southern California, while several interior scenes were filmed at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in downtown LA. This article takes a closer look at the hotel’s exterior as seen in Parts 10,…
In Twin Peaks Part 12, Agents Gordon Cole, Albert Rosenfield, and Tammy Preston raise a glass of wine while at a hotel in Buckhorn, South Dakota. It’s during this scene that Agent Preston is invited to join the Blue Rose Task Force. In reality, this scene was shot inside a historic building in downtown Los Angeles,…
In honor of Father’s Day, here’s my love letter to the many ties Ben Horne wears in Twin Peaks, from the Pilot episode through Part 17 of Season 3 on Showtime.
Early in Twin Peaks Part 12 on Showtime, FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole raises a glass of red wine with the Blue Rose Task Force and says, “Here’s to the Bureau.” Which wine do they drink, you ask?