The Ultimate HOOSIERS filming location quest ! 25 years later
www.AdamTheWoo.com - Please Subscribe ! 25 years after the award winning film came out I attempted to track down as many locations as possible. Traveling all over the state of Indiana and stopping at over a dozen stops. The end result is this video. Enjoy !
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one thanks for certain there's more than
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corn in
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Indiana there also basketball
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here's the shot where the house was
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right here where Norman Dale stayed you
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can see this house in the background
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shock and this light pole that's it
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thank
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you say hello to Chester hello Chester
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say goodbye to
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Chester you say this kid Jimmy uh he
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wouldn't play basketball after the coach
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died well the coach was kind of like an
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old man to him you know kid never had
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any family of his own
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speo at least he comes on down to school
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and shoots him buckets aside from that
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he's just about back away from
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everything I don't know why you're going
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on so about this kid being Irreplaceable
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it's my experience that nobody's
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Irreplaceable hey coach how about a
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haircut who cut your hairir George truly
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oh no hey play with three next time
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those aren't
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bad let me help you there oh appreciate
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it so this was the diner in the movie
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where Dennis Hopper came in drunk it's
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now
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closed you can actually see this metal
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window in the shot and also right this
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window here you can also see in the shot
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and right through the door those doors
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there facing that way it's where Dennis
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Hopper would have walked in oh don't
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worry about George you'll be right with
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you you start
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winning Rus my friend my good friend
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friend of years friend of Tears you kind
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of see in the window over
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here here's the only Remnant left of the
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church which would have been right back
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there in the corn field directly over
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here was another little thing next to
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these electrical boxes there's the
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intersection down there the church
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there's a little bit of the rubble
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that's left straight ahead that way
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where this corn now stands is where this
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church would have
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been this telephone pole can be seen in
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the shot you come straight down his car
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would have been sitting here if you also
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look closely you'll be able to see this
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chunk of
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wood and the street sign is also visible
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in the movie
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shot this is the gym used in the
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regional finals where Ali shoots the
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basketball underhanded and takes them to
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the championship
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he would have been teetering on his
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teammate shoulders right around here
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right around in this area
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this is the church where the decision
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was made to keep or get rid of the coach
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my sister is pinned around front talking
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to two vocals who here the move this fil
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they're now talking our ear off but it's
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pretty cool they're right around this
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way she can't get away from them they
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just keep talking keep talking her ear
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off she's trying to be nice but she's
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ready to walk away inside here is where
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coach was decided that he would stay he
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look straight through here if those
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doors were open it would look exactly as
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it does in the
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movie I've made some mistakes but
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they're mistakes I take full
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responsibility
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for the basketball team was all standing
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right around
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here if you turn this way and
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look straight up here is where Jimmy
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chipwood walked up towards us right past
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where my sister is talking to one of the
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locals who's explaining things about the
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movie Jimmy chipwood would have walked
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right up here and walked in this way
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no we're going to settle it now I'm
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going to shut your power off this is the
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gy where one of the final games was and
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there was a big fight right here in the
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middle of the court it's a big fight
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right here and the coach got ejected one
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of the players on the stage a bunch of
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people stood the scoreboard was right
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there right up in that
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area this angle might look familiar this
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where Dennis Hopper was drunk once again
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and was heading that
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way this leads up onto the balcony no
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it's
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FR okay the janitor had just let me up
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top on this balcony he had the key I'm
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in here by myself with faith right down
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below was where the fight was
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the dogs are yapping behind me in the
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small town of turum very small town in
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Indiana
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turum
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tun I'm here at the Wishard Hospital and
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the scene where Dennis Hopper had his
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say in the hospital bed was filmed right
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down these doors un fortunately the
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doors are
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locked you can barely see through that
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window Straight Ahead was the door
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leading to Dennis Hopper's room in the
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movie A couple months in here you'll be
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dry as a Sahara
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Desert I cannot get
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out how many times we going to pass
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off how many four
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four let us
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pray be strong and of good courage for
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the Lord thy God is with thee withs
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soever thou go
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us how do you
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feel look it's my first game well in a
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way it is I'll be right there with
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you welcome to Indiana basketball
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welcome to Indiana basketball
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right think I'm playing ball or not yeah
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we'll be there let's go okay come on
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let's
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time what I say
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when it comes to this basketball team is
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the law absolutely and without
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discussion right over here is where the
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team came
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in and they measured the basketball goal
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they stood right in here
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they measured the goal they walked right
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there measured that
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goal
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it's team team
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team five players on the floor
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functioning as one single unit okay no
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one more important than the other