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Fred's Fish & Game |
A. The Bridge Street Bazaar can be found at 6 Bridge Street, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. It is located right
next to the iron bridge, on the north side of Bridge Street, at
the east end of the bridge, in Shelburne. In real life, it is
sort of the antithesis of a hunting store, a shop that seems to have
more in common with Woodstock than with Smith & Wesson. The
store describes itself as a "Bohemian Lifestyle Boutique", selling
unique clothing, jewelry, shoes, and accessories. And it does indeed
seem to have an esoteric mix of items for sale, leaning towards the
countercultural, such as silver Celtic knot pendants, carved owl
earrings, fake ear gauges,and "Adaptogenic Immortality Powder". You can find the store's website here: https://bridgestreetbazaar.com . For
the show, they completely changed the window displays and the
inventory, of course, to make it look like a hunting store, complete with mounted animal heads on the walls. and they
added a red, oval sign over the front door reading "Fred's Fish &
Game", and featuring a flying duck. And they completely remodeled the store's interior as
well, right down to adding stuffed animal heads on the walls. The
resulting rustic ambience was so authentic that customers actually came
in expecting to buy fish & game equipment from the store. (
Note that you can see the town's Iron Bridge through the store's front window during interior scenes. )
Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was? A.
While they were filming in Shelburne Falls, there were quite a few
stories appearing in the local Massachusetts media about the production,
complete with lots of photos of the crew decorating the town to look
like Christmas, and various shots of them prepping locations for the
shoot, And naturally, some included images of "Fred's". But it wouldn't have been
hard to find it without the photos, since it is right next to the iron
bridge.And since they didn't change anything about the exterior, except
for adding that red sign, it would be easy to match it up using
StreetView.
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