today we're gonna talk about filming locations in New Mexico especially Las
Vegas New Mexico today a Colorado martini living I'm gonna go see Longmire
I'll be right back
so right now I am in New Mexico and what a lot of people don't realize is that
many films and series are filmed here they give a lot of incentives for
Hollywood to come to New Mexico and right now I'm in Las Vegas in Mexico and
yes her is a Las Vegas New Mexico and it's actually the first Las Vegas ever
was and one series that is very popular was filmed here and pretty much where
I'm standing and that's Longmire there's also a house of so many other films and
TV series that have been filmed here I actually used to live here right up the
road in Santa Fe where there's a lot of studios that give incentives for
Hollywood to come here a matter of fact when I lived in Santa Fe I was renting a
house for makeup artist or she would spend half our time in Hollywood and
half her time here so the movie industry here in New Mexico is a lot bigger than
people realize and one that one series that everybody thinks is in Wyoming is
actually filmed right where I am right now in the plaza of Las Vegas New Mexico
what's so great about Las Vegas New Mexico is that
it's like its history is sealed in time unfortunately this area didn't have a
whole lot of money so when it had economic downturns and it had a lot of
them there was no money to revive this downtown or the town itself so a lot of
the buildings that have a great historical significance still are here
like a frozen in time
if you've never seen longmeyer it is an amazing Western TV series Walt Longmire
is a sheriff in in Wyoming Longmire became the highest-rated original drama
series and it can be streamed on Netflix
so just outside of the Plaza Hotel is where longmeyer was filmed so that is
longmeyer's offices above there and the door still says that it's a Sheriff
Department for Wyoming and you'll probably remember that in Longmire his
deputy used to come out all the time as she used to always have her car parked
out on the corner and she would you know carry on conversations that's right
there so this is where the Durant Wyoming Sheriff's Department is right up
there to recognize all this but I'm in lost against New Mexico so they still
have the door painted as if they're still filming here now Durant is
actually a fictitious town in Wyoming doesn't really exist
oh right across from the door is the plaza
again that's where these always parked their Sheriff vehicles and talk to
people they'd have conversations and then here's the plaza but this is the
Plaza Hotel this is where we're staying it's actually really well priced it's
been completely redone it's been about 11 years since I've been here and it's a
wonderful job it is just wonderful and it's right on the plaza which is really
cool great fact that I have been told by locals that the people of the stars of
Longmire love it so much here that they're constantly tweet how this place
has a special place in their heart and that they will always come up here and
visit for the rest of their lives and I thought that was kind of me there's been
many things that been filmed here in Las Vegas
the original Red Dawn No Country for Old Men Easy Rider
vampires by carpenter there's just been many many movies and TV that have been
built either Las Vegas or at this hotel the plaza
and Tommy Lee Jones stayed in 205 when he was here making no country for old
men and then of course Lou Diamond Phillips was also on Longmire and he
stayed in room 2 to 2 right next to Robert Taylor who played Longmire where
Longmire himself stayed in 220 Robert Taylor is the after that played Longmire
so woody stayed in 305 when he was making no country for old men John
Carpenter looks like he stayed in this room she always Katie's room when she
was making Longmire she's staying in 302
daily chase stayed in 304 and he was making longmeyer he was one of my
favorite characters branch remember that movie that was made a while back I was
like in the nineties called vampire well I guess it was filmed in this area and
there was a carpenter movie horror movie and James Woods stayed in two or three
so the Rough Riders which are were soldiers that rode with Teddy Roosevelt
in the spanish-american war had their first reunion in this part Lincoln Park
so this house is at 725 Jackson Street it was built in 1886 and it was featured
in the movie set for Wyatt Earp and all the pretty horses and it's right across
the street from Lincoln Park which is where the Rough Riders have their first
reunion so this is right across the street and these are all boards that are
green right now so I'm wondering if the green screened it in but this is for the
Roswell series on TV so you see this building right here that's the one that
had the Roswell sign on it so I'm not sure if they use this as a green-screen
to put those Roswell images on it the green door is in that picture but these
sites have the Roswell New Mexico sign on it so because they're green I'm
thinking the green screened it but I'm not sure
and that's right on the south side of the plaza so behind me is the Plaza
Hotel just told me a great story about Patrick Swayze so when he was here
filming Red Dawn years ago back in the 80s he was pretty young bucket back then
he loved Las Vegas so much that he bought property here just just to my
left up at the road here and his wife is actually there right now visiting for
the holidays and they still own the property to this day so I thought that
was kind of a neat act bartender I love that series so much and it's actually
coming back with a movie in a miniseries so they're gonna be back here in Las
Vegas so I'm trying to come back here at that time and see if I can get some of
the filming that goes on but freakin Longmire plan such as myself it is
coming back
fucking locals forever
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