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Forrest Gump (1994)

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[10/10 · 1 March 2006]

I'm about to publish a book, called the Bubba Book of Knowledge. One of my quests has been to travel to take photographs of famous movie scenes. I've lived in Savannah since 1983 and was thrilled that Gump was filmed in and around my town. The bench was in downtown Savannah. The Gump House is near Beaufort. The tree they sat in is near the entrance to the Beaufort Marine Base. The bridge that Jenny almost jumped from has been torn down, but was the Kings Ferry Bridge near Richmond Hill, Georgia. Love's Seafood had a temporary "Girls, Girls, Girls" neon sign on their restaurant, next to the bridge. Gump was running in front of the houses on West Bay Street in Savannah. I spent a night across the street from the Santa Monica Pier, where he ran to the end and stopped. The grate the young Gump caught his foot in was in Ridgeland, South Carolina.

It's such a thrill to recapture the scenes. It's amazing that this movie has continued to be one of my favorites. It was set in the times of my same age groups and so much of the memories come flooding back.

Thom Brooks Brooks Insurance School, SABL Baseball Savannah, Georgia

1969 (1988)

My 15 Minutes

[10/10 · 1 March 2006]

My son and I were in this movie, filmed in and around Savannah in November of 1987. We were in my Mother In Law's 1970 dark brown Plymouth, driving by the bus, just as her son, standing outside the bus, is saluting his Mom, Mariette Hartley. She was jogging up a bridge, near Hardeevile, South Carolina. Her line was, "Don't Die. Don't Die",as he heads off to Vietnam. Mariette later patted my son on the head, telling him how cute he was as a 10 year old boy. She declined to pat me on the head because I wasn't as attractive as my son!

After this window of Fame, they cut our part out. So, I'm still one Pathetic Loser! Being around those stars was fun and they were all very friendly, not caught up in their own success.

Thom Brooks Brooks Insurance School SABL Baseball Savannah, Georgia