Following a successful event in 2024, The Real Twin Peaks event returns to Snoqualmie Valley, Washington from February 21-24, 2025. Organized by the North Bend Downtown Foundation, Historic Downtown Snoqualmie and North Bend Theatre, this long-weekend event celebrates the places where David Lynch and Mark Frost’s show was filmed. Here is an event guide to help…
As the last hours of 2024 fade away, I’m closing out the year with a look at another vintage postcard of Snoqualmie Falls and the former Snoqualmie Falls Lodge known today at The Salish Lodge and Spa. This unique view was captured by a Tacoma-based photographer who spent decades involved with Washington state photography.
My first visit to the Real Twin Peaks of Snoqualmie Valley, Washington was in August 1996 for the Twin Peaks Fan Festival. During the event, I took a bus tour of the film locations which included the Mt. Si Motel in North Bend, Washington. This was the spot used in David Lynch’s masterpiece Twin Peaks: Fire…
It’s a short scene in David Lynch’s 1992 film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. After being berated by Leland Palmer for not washing her hands before dinner, Laura Palmer is seen crying at a sink in a dimly lit bathroom. This scene was shot on location at a historic Rucker Hill home located in Everett, Washington…
For years, I’ve suspected the morning after the fire at the Packard Sawmill in Twin Peaks episode 2.001 was actual footage from a real fire that destroyed part of the Weyerhaeuser Sawmill in Snoqualmie, Washington in Feb. 1989. Thanks to a post on the Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum Facebook page, I have confirmed my suspicions with…
In the Twin Peaks pilot, there are a handful of interior scenes that take place at The Great Northern Hotel. Those scenes were filmed at Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington which also doubled as the Packard family residence known as the Blue Pine Lodge. One of those scenes was Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) speaking with…
Early in the Twin Peaks pilot, we see an emotionally powerful scene as Sheriff Harry S. Truman informs Leland Palmer of his daughter Laura Palmer’s death. The scene takes place in the lobby of The Great Northern Hotel. In reality, the scene was shot at Kiana Lodge located on Bainbridge Island in Washington state.
After see the story about Twin Peaks Mountain Spring Water created for the 1992 Twin Peaks Fan Festival in Snoqualmie Valley, Washington, fellow Bookhouse Boy and long-time Twin Peaks fan Dugpa found a rare treasure on eBay. He was searching for a bottle of that spring water but found something even better – a four-page…
The 1992 Twin Peaks Fan Festival was held from August 14-16, 1992 in Snoqualmie Valley, Washington. While the U.S. premiere of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was a tentpole moment for the weekend, the “Twin Peaks Chamber of Commerce” (known today at the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce) packed the weekend with…
During the first Twin Peaks Fan Festival on August 14-16, 1992, thousands of Twin Peaks fans descended on the towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend, Washington for a weekend filled with cherry pie, celebrity sightings, and the premiere of David Lynch’s newest film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. As part of the festivities, fans…