Category: Places
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Inside Vancouver’s abandoned WATCHMEN set
Zack Snyder’s mostly faithful-to-a-fault adaptation of Watchmen (2009) is something of an oddity among the superhero TV shows and movies that have shot in Vancouver: namely, that there are zero obvious traces of the city shown on screen. Set is an alternate 1980s timeline, filled with superheroes, Snyder brought Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s dense […]
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X-FILES x Ovaltine Cafe
It’s almost unreal that the Ovaltine Café still exists. Even more that the timeless diner doesn’t look like it’s changed much since it opened in 1942. The cafe’s legendary menu prices are a blast from the past. That the Ovaltine and its iconic neon seem frozen in time has made it a popular filming location, […]