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The Ultimate HOOSIERS filming location quest ! 25 years later

Date: September 29, 2011 Duration: 13m 46s
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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0:24 one thanks for certain there's more than
0:24 corn in
0:26 Indiana there also basketball
2:34 here's the shot where the house was
2:34 right here where Norman Dale stayed you
2:37 can see this house in the background
2:39 shock and this light pole that's it
2:43 thank
2:44 you say hello to Chester hello Chester
2:48 say goodbye to
2:53 Chester you say this kid Jimmy uh he
2:53 wouldn't play basketball after the coach
2:55 died well the coach was kind of like an
2:57 old man to him you know kid never had
2:59 any family of his own
3:01 speo at least he comes on down to school
3:04 and shoots him buckets aside from that
3:06 he's just about back away from
3:08 everything I don't know why you're going
3:10 on so about this kid being Irreplaceable
3:13 it's my experience that nobody's
3:26 Irreplaceable hey coach how about a
3:26 haircut who cut your hairir George truly
3:31 oh no hey play with three next time
3:35 those aren't
3:36 bad let me help you there oh appreciate
3:40 it so this was the diner in the movie
3:42 where Dennis Hopper came in drunk it's
3:44 now
3:45 closed you can actually see this metal
3:48 window in the shot and also right this
3:52 window here you can also see in the shot
3:56 and right through the door those doors
3:57 there facing that way it's where Dennis
4:00 Hopper would have walked in oh don't
4:02 worry about George you'll be right with
4:03 you you start
4:10 winning Rus my friend my good friend
4:10 friend of years friend of Tears you kind
4:13 of see in the window over
4:25 here here's the only Remnant left of the
4:25 church which would have been right back
4:27 there in the corn field directly over
4:30 here was another little thing next to
4:32 these electrical boxes there's the
4:34 intersection down there the church
4:38 there's a little bit of the rubble
4:39 that's left straight ahead that way
4:42 where this corn now stands is where this
4:44 church would have
4:51 been this telephone pole can be seen in
4:52 the shot you come straight down his car
4:54 would have been sitting here if you also
4:57 look closely you'll be able to see this
4:59 chunk of
5:01 wood and the street sign is also visible
5:04 in the movie
5:22 shot this is the gym used in the
5:22 regional finals where Ali shoots the
5:24 basketball underhanded and takes them to
5:26 the championship
5:49 he would have been teetering on his
5:49 teammate shoulders right around here
5:53 right around in this area
6:11 this is the church where the decision
6:11 was made to keep or get rid of the coach
6:14 my sister is pinned around front talking
6:16 to two vocals who here the move this fil
6:19 they're now talking our ear off but it's
6:21 pretty cool they're right around this
6:24 way she can't get away from them they
6:27 just keep talking keep talking her ear
6:29 off she's trying to be nice but she's
6:31 ready to walk away inside here is where
6:35 coach was decided that he would stay he
6:37 look straight through here if those
6:39 doors were open it would look exactly as
6:41 it does in the
6:42 movie I've made some mistakes but
6:44 they're mistakes I take full
6:45 responsibility
6:48 for the basketball team was all standing
6:51 right around
6:57 here if you turn this way and
6:58 look straight up here is where Jimmy
7:00 chipwood walked up towards us right past
7:03 where my sister is talking to one of the
7:04 locals who's explaining things about the
7:07 movie Jimmy chipwood would have walked
7:09 right up here and walked in this way
7:34 no we're going to settle it now I'm
7:34 going to shut your power off this is the
7:36 gy where one of the final games was and
7:39 there was a big fight right here in the
7:41 middle of the court it's a big fight
7:43 right here and the coach got ejected one
7:45 of the players on the stage a bunch of
7:47 people stood the scoreboard was right
7:51 there right up in that
7:59 area this angle might look familiar this
7:59 where Dennis Hopper was drunk once again
8:02 and was heading that
8:12 way this leads up onto the balcony no
8:12 it's
8:23 FR okay the janitor had just let me up
8:23 top on this balcony he had the key I'm
8:26 in here by myself with faith right down
8:28 below was where the fight was
9:01 the dogs are yapping behind me in the
9:01 small town of turum very small town in
9:04 Indiana
9:12 turum
9:12 tun I'm here at the Wishard Hospital and
9:15 the scene where Dennis Hopper had his
9:18 say in the hospital bed was filmed right
9:19 down these doors un fortunately the
9:22 doors are
9:24 locked you can barely see through that
9:27 window Straight Ahead was the door
9:29 leading to Dennis Hopper's room in the
9:38 movie A couple months in here you'll be
9:38 dry as a Sahara
9:40 Desert I cannot get
9:43 out how many times we going to pass
9:46 off how many four
9:50 four let us
9:52 pray be strong and of good courage for
9:56 the Lord thy God is with thee withs
9:58 soever thou go
10:06 us how do you
10:06 feel look it's my first game well in a
10:09 way it is I'll be right there with
10:26 you welcome to Indiana basketball
10:26 welcome to Indiana basketball
10:59 right think I'm playing ball or not yeah
10:59 we'll be there let's go okay come on
11:02 let's
11:30 time what I say
11:30 when it comes to this basketball team is
11:32 the law absolutely and without
11:52 discussion right over here is where the
11:53 team came
11:54 in and they measured the basketball goal
11:57 they stood right in here
12:12 they measured the goal they walked right
12:12 there measured that
12:15 goal
13:19 it's team team
13:20 team five players on the floor
13:22 functioning as one single unit okay no
13:26 one more important than the other