Thank you SO MUCH for this! "Vanishing Point" is near and dear to my heart. Funny to say, but this film brings me peace. Thank you for all your work bringing these locations, then and now, to us. It was sweet to see Kowalski's name on the old building. Something very, very poignant about all of this.
this Is what makes CZcams great, being able to view someone doing something I would absolutely love to do, but probably will never get the chance, at least I can watch it tho!! so thanks
What an amazing juxtaposition 40 years apart. Saw Vanishing Point as a first run movie in 1971. Just came through Cisco for the first time returning to Colorado from Moab.
By watching this movie in 1971 or 1972, I fell in love with the Dodge Challenger. Always had in my mind to buy one, but kids came and other priorities (business). Now at the age of 71, they have become too expensive here in Europe. I still keep dreaming😃.
I saw Vanishing Point in 1971 in Reno, Nv on vacation, I was 16, it was so mesmerizing, I sat in the theater all day long and watched it over and over, returning over the next 3 days to repeat the process. I have watched this picture more times than any other movie ever. Something about it spoke to me then. Still does. This is COOL. I also have stood on the steps of radio station K.O.W. in Beautiful downtown Goldfield . Nv. Thanks for this video piece.
I stop there when ever I go to CO. I zip tied a stuffed scare crow on the Ethel cafe a couple years ago and it was still there last December. :) I did a burn out in front on honor of Kowalski.
Excellent video work with the flashbacks of then and now. The cinematography is spectacular in Vanishing Point and along with the music, it really gives the feeling you get of the freedom of the open road. The spirit of the Last American Hero is in all of us.
Thank you for the memories the greatest car movie ever. I was just 15 years old one Saturday when I walked by a theater with $2 in my pocket. I saw the white challenger. But I never knew it was going to be such a great movie thank you for the Memories. Very well done Earth Changes Channel 🌎
My wife and I just completed a good portion of the VP route in our 2020 R/T Shaker a few weeks ago in May, just two days after Barry Newman passed away. Your videos helped us very much in planning our journey through Rifle, Cisco, Hanksville, and Austin plus all those stretches of Hwy 50. What an experience! Thank you!
I discovered the movie only a few years ago. I love traveling the open road preferably by motorcycle. Needless to say I consider this one of the best movies ever! I plan a trip to the USA in 2021 if this damn virus allows it. I will make sure to pass by these locations. Thanks for this great video
The Shell fuel station/Ethel's Cafe featured here is slowly but surely collapsing inward, either by natural decay or accelerated by a vandal knocking out the 4x4 columns that were holding the rotting structure up in the middle. A shame, since it's the only nearby structure left from the time of filming aside from the shed 0:23 in the middle distance. Photographs show Ethel's cafe was still standing straight in 2012. The roof began caving in sometime around 2013; I doubt the walls will remain standing for another decade. Visit Cisco soon if you wish to see it with your own eyes before it's gone.
+speeta I first saw Vanishing Point 1971. I was 13 1/2 years old. Needless to say i fell in love with the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum. A year and a half ago I was able to buy a white 2014 Challenger. You Sir have done yourself proud with this video and your other showing Muddy Creek. Most likely i will never get the chance to drive my Challenger to Cisco or Riffle, CO or Goldfield, NV. So I thank you very much for the time you put into making this video.
What I find interesting in the crash scene, Kowalski is eastbound. I was in Cisco four weeks ago and the scene at 3:32 proves it. The railroad is on the north side of old US6 and the café was on the west side.
Fantastic production! Thank you very much! One of the most underrated movies of all time . .saw this at a drive in when I was 7 years old back in Detroit, Michigan, and even then I realized I was watching something special.
Wow... Just wow !! Saw this on TV as a kid back in the 70s. Even then I got Kowalski. It helped that when I saw it on TV the Viet Nam war was over and it made more sense to me. Just an excellent job lining up and matching the shots. The toy. Bulldozers gave me a laugh ! And the spray painted Kowalski Lives sign ! He does indeed in our hearts and so does Barry Newman !! Thanks for posting this . Well done !! 💖🕯️
Drove through Cisco in 2001 or so. We were visiting National Parks in Southern Utah (Arches to Zion) We called it our A to Z tour. Anyway I have been a fan of Vanishing Point from the first time I saw it. Since we were in the Moab area, I knew I had to make the short drive to Cisco and check it out.
I'm a big fan of the movie. You did a really NICE job of replicating the various shots. I liked the toy bulldozers; very convincing initially! I wanted to see you jump the railroad tracks in the Scion Xb, though!
When I was there April 2016 I repainted the Kowalski lives writing in green due to it being all faded. I try to drive there yearly in my 2012 SRT white Challenger but the pass still is getting snow so I'll have to hold off Til may this year.
Thank you for this great post, speeta ! Nice to see the contrasts in time at filming locations. 10 yrs old when I watched Vanishing Point. Amazing the impact it had on me. Good work !
Was back in Cisco in Sept 2019. The gas station building is almost completely collapsed in on its self. another year or two and it will be completely caved in.
One of my favorite movies of all time, I remember seeing on tv for the first time when I was in high school, about 1976 I think, on a Sunday night. Monday at school me and my buddies were all talking about it. Great video you put together, it’s too bad barely anything is left but heck that was a long time ago, thanks for that!
Love it! Growing up in Chile and watching this movie was pretty cool. Im located now in Utah, a place that has a lot of connection to the movies I watched as a kid. thanks for sharing this video
This makes me feel old I remember when it came out and loved it ! Hated the ending but still will always be the most bad ass chase movie ever made hands down
Fantastic job! Really enjoyed the trip back to Cisco after all these years. I was 10 when this film debuted in Arbroath Scotland. We moved to Scotland from Pendleton Oregon which is hot and dry in the summers but doesn't have quite the big sky that they captured so well in this film. We had only been in Scotland 6 months and I was completely homesick. Hadn't seen the sun for weeks so this movie was like going home for me. Thanks again!
I think the site should be preserved as a tribute to the movie and all it stands for. Would be a good tourist attraction, not too far from Moab. Something needs to be organized...tough to do from Canada...but there must be many American fans of the movie who get it.
That was really cool thanks for sharing that I always love that movie first time I seen it I was 14 years old I'm 51 now and I still love that movie thanks for sharing that that was awesome👍👍👍👍👍
I have been through Cisco several times on my way to Moab for camping and Mtn. biking...I saw Vanishing Point many years earlier, a classic rebel against the system movie.....
Thank you for posting the scene shown in 4:40-4:49. The mysterious black car scene is really something. I can't verbalize what I mean, it hits several different levels.
The back drop of where Kowalski trying to go into California from Nevada. I always thought it was on the actually border of California/Nevada border but didn't know Utah was going to be that exact location for that particular scene.
Well DONE! I was just out there (Nov. 2022). The building is covered with graffiti now and barely standing. I wish I'd covered the angles like you did. And I never did find that railroad crossing. Still, it was an awesome visit!
"Kowalski lives"...Greetings from Greece. Congratulations for the job to merge all these clips from the movie then and the sad images of the place today. Now in 2021 , some years later i wonder after watching this video if 50 years is too much or too less....
Great job , loved this movie loved the car I saw the movie I guess I was 11 just amazing job with the comparisons in time ,thanks for doing this wished someone would do this with Smokey and the bandit original movie but maybe not a lot of real location shots more studio don’t know , but thanks again
RIP Barry Newman and Kowalski.
Apparently he passed more than three weeks ago but the press release wasn't issued until a few days ago.
VAYA CON DIOS!
Thank you SO MUCH for this! "Vanishing Point" is near and dear to my heart. Funny to say, but this film brings me peace. Thank you for all your work bringing these locations, then and now, to us. It was sweet to see Kowalski's name on the old building. Something very, very poignant about all of this.
this Is what makes CZcams great, being able to view someone doing something I would absolutely love to do, but probably will never get the chance, at least I can watch it tho!! so thanks
Too true, Motley. I would love to take two or three friends on a road trip here, but something always seems to come up.
What an amazing juxtaposition 40 years apart. Saw Vanishing Point as a first run movie in 1971. Just came through Cisco for the first time returning to Colorado from Moab.
By watching this movie in 1971 or 1972, I fell in love with the Dodge Challenger. Always had in my mind to buy one, but kids came and other priorities (business). Now at the age of 71, they have become too expensive here in Europe. I still keep dreaming😃.
I saw Vanishing Point in 1971 in Reno, Nv on vacation, I was 16, it was so mesmerizing, I sat in the theater all day long and watched it over and over, returning over the next 3 days to repeat the process. I have watched this picture more times than any other movie ever. Something about it spoke to me then. Still does. This is COOL. I also have stood on the steps of radio station K.O.W. in Beautiful downtown Goldfield . Nv. Thanks for this video piece.
June 2024. I am 75 years old now and this is still my favorite movie. I think it is genius and Barry Newman so perfect.
I stop there when ever I go to CO. I zip tied a stuffed scare crow on the Ethel cafe a couple years ago and it was still there last December. :) I did a burn out in front on honor of Kowalski.
Excellent video work with the flashbacks of then and now.
The cinematography is spectacular in Vanishing Point and along with the music, it really gives the feeling you get of the freedom of the open road. The spirit of the Last American Hero is in all of us.
I saw this movie when it first came out and have always liked the challenger since then.
Thank you for the memories the greatest car movie ever. I was just 15 years old one Saturday when I walked by a theater with $2 in my pocket. I saw the white challenger. But I never knew it was going to be such a great movie thank you for the Memories. Very well done
Earth Changes Channel 🌎
My wife and I just completed a good portion of the VP route in our 2020 R/T Shaker a few weeks ago in May, just two days after Barry Newman passed away. Your videos helped us very much in planning our journey through Rifle, Cisco, Hanksville, and Austin plus all those stretches of Hwy 50. What an experience! Thank you!
Great video and music.
Saw this movie when it came out.
1971
I discovered the movie only a few years ago. I love traveling the open road preferably by motorcycle. Needless to say I consider this one of the best movies ever!
I plan a trip to the USA in 2021 if this damn virus allows it. I will make sure to pass by these locations.
Thanks for this great video
The Shell fuel station/Ethel's Cafe featured here is slowly but surely collapsing inward, either by natural decay or accelerated by a vandal knocking out the 4x4 columns that were holding the rotting structure up in the middle. A shame, since it's the only nearby structure left from the time of filming aside from the shed 0:23 in the middle distance. Photographs show Ethel's cafe was still standing straight in 2012. The roof began caving in sometime around 2013; I doubt the walls will remain standing for another decade. Visit Cisco soon if you wish to see it with your own eyes before it's gone.
+speeta I first saw Vanishing Point 1971. I was 13 1/2 years old. Needless to say i fell in love with the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum. A year and a half ago I was able to buy a white 2014 Challenger. You Sir have done yourself proud with this video and your other showing Muddy Creek. Most likely i will never get the chance to drive my Challenger to Cisco or Riffle, CO or Goldfield, NV. So I thank you very much for the time you put into making this video.
What I find interesting in the crash scene, Kowalski is eastbound. I was in Cisco four weeks ago and the scene at 3:32 proves it. The railroad is on the north side of old US6 and the café was on the west side.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video! I'm sorry the old houses no longer exist. The red writing on the house at the end touches me a lot.
I travel on I-70 Often to Grand Junction Colorado and that guitar theme always plays in my mind when I pass Cicso Utah
Wow!! Incredible! I can't believe that some of those buildings are still there, just. Thank you
Fantastic: saw it here in Germany 1971, I was 11 years old at that time. Kowalski saw the light!
Fantastic production! Thank you very much! One of the most underrated movies of all time . .saw this at a drive in when I was 7 years old back in Detroit, Michigan, and even then I realized I was watching something special.
Can't figure out where the 17 dislikes came from. Excellent editing and a great video. Thank you for sharing.
Great research! Love the Tonka Caterpillars, nice touch:)
Well done very good job awesome Kowalski would be happy Mopar fan
I have to commend you. I understand what it takes to edit a video like this. Absolutely EXCELLENT. A+ and my favorite movie.
Wow... Just wow !! Saw this on TV as a kid back in the 70s. Even then I got Kowalski. It helped that when I saw it on TV the Viet Nam war was over and it made more sense to me. Just an excellent job lining up and matching the shots. The toy. Bulldozers gave me a laugh ! And the spray painted Kowalski Lives sign ! He does indeed in our hearts and so does Barry Newman !! Thanks for posting this . Well done !! 💖🕯️
Lovely comments Barry Newman so loved x
Drove through Cisco in 2001 or so. We were visiting National Parks in Southern Utah (Arches to Zion) We called it our A to Z tour. Anyway I have been a fan of Vanishing Point from the first time I saw it. Since we were in the Moab area, I knew I had to make the short drive to Cisco and check it out.
Sounds an amazing road trip
Trifecta: Right car, right actors, right music. A rare combination that created a sum greater than the parts.
I'm a big fan of the movie. You did a really NICE job of replicating the various shots. I liked the toy bulldozers; very convincing initially! I wanted to see you jump the railroad tracks in the Scion Xb, though!
“THx4 sharing this reminiscing of probably one of the best Car movies of all time “ Was then & as far as I’m concerned still is 😎☝️👌👍👍💪👊✊✊✊✊
When I was there April 2016 I repainted the Kowalski lives writing in green due to it being all faded. I try to drive there yearly in my 2012 SRT white Challenger but the pass still is getting snow so I'll have to hold off Til may this year.
Why green? Red stands out so much better.
Thank you for this great post, speeta !
Nice to see the contrasts in time at filming locations. 10 yrs old when I watched Vanishing Point. Amazing the impact it had on me.
Good work !
Went to see this movie at the drive-in when it came out! I was driving a 68 Charger! The good old days
got goose bumps a couple of times during this, great job friend. I saw the movie in its first week out back in 71......this was moving.
Goosebumps how is it I ain't got any goosebumps? Do geese have goosebumps?
Great film. Thanks!
Was back in Cisco in Sept 2019. The gas station building is almost completely collapsed in on its self. another year or two and it will be completely caved in.
That guitar always brings tears to my eyes.
Wow! Great shots and superb edits!
Nice video.
Vanishing point is one of my favorite movies.
One of my favorite movies of all time, I remember seeing on tv for the first time when I was in high school, about 1976 I think, on a Sunday night. Monday at school me and my buddies were all talking about it. Great video you put together, it’s too bad barely anything is left but heck that was a long time ago, thanks for that!
Love it! Growing up in Chile and watching this movie was pretty cool. Im located now in Utah, a place that has a lot of connection to the movies I watched as a kid. thanks for sharing this video
Great visit back in time my friend. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Speeta . Thanks for going to a lot of trouble to show us the old locations. Appreciated. It was
( is still ) a great movie. Thanks again.
This makes me feel old I remember when it came out and loved it ! Hated the ending but still will always be the most bad ass chase movie ever made hands down
KOWALSKI LIVES! Greetings from Brazil.
Fantastic job! Really enjoyed the trip back to Cisco after all these years. I was 10 when this film debuted in Arbroath Scotland. We moved to Scotland from Pendleton Oregon which is hot and dry in the summers but doesn't have quite the big sky that they captured so well in this film. We had only been in Scotland 6 months and I was completely homesick. Hadn't seen the sun for weeks so this movie was like going home for me.
Thanks again!
Thanks for bringing this too us big fans of the Movie
I think the site should be preserved as a tribute to the movie and all it stands for. Would be a good tourist attraction, not too far from Moab. Something needs to be organized...tough to do from Canada...but there must be many American fans of the movie who get it.
Its all painted up and tagged with hippie shit now, everything
I loved that movie
@@6GUNSOUTH that makes it even better
Excellent now and then pictures and videos ... I just watched the movie and was hoping somebody documented the locations !! thank you
Love the way this was done; I'm surprised to see the town itself has all but vanished.
Great video and music.
Loved this iconic movie
Never met you, but I like the way you emotionalize a location with your videos.
That was really cool thanks for sharing that I always love that movie first time I seen it I was 14 years old I'm 51 now and I still love that movie thanks for sharing that that was awesome👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you , so much .
Whenever i get back to the U S im heading to Cisco .
Fab. such a brilliant film. Great to see some of the locations. thanks x
Great job on finding the locations and excellent editing 👍👍
Very very cool!!! love the toy dozers. very creative!!
I always loved the wig glued onto the crash helmet of the stunt driver when he skids around at the bulldozers!
Super cool! Thanks for showing the comparisons. Love this!
This was great and greatly appreciate the effort you went through, thanks!
Incredible editing. Great video indeed. Well done. Shoutout from Australia.👍🇦🇺😁
So glad you did this man. Great work. Would love to see it.
Great job on these videos. Very interesting to see how things have changed. THANKS!
I have been through Cisco several times on my way to Moab for camping and Mtn. biking...I saw Vanishing
Point many years earlier, a classic rebel against the system movie.....
Kowalski lives 👍👍👍
Loved the vid. Thank you. It gave me chills seeing those also
Thanks, good job, enjoyed it and nice to know where it was!!
Thank you for posting the scene shown in 4:40-4:49. The mysterious black car scene is really something. I can't verbalize what I mean, it hits several different levels.
Great job man! I've watched this several times.
Thanks for making this tribute video . Very well done 👌
Great video, love the way you connected clips from the film to your own. Must have taken a lot of research to find the locations.
Brilliant thank you from here in the UK
Nice job- sad there's almost nothing left.
Drove by a short time ago...
Sadly, it's all been removed ☹️
The back drop of where Kowalski trying to go into California from Nevada. I always thought it was on the actually border of California/Nevada border but didn't know Utah was going to be that exact location for that particular scene.
Well DONE! I was just out there (Nov. 2022). The building is covered with graffiti now and barely standing. I wish I'd covered the angles like you did. And I never did find that railroad crossing. Still, it was an awesome visit!
This video make me cry...
Everything is vanishing.
"Kowalski lives"...Greetings from Greece. Congratulations for the job to merge all these clips from the movie then and the sad images of the place today. Now in 2021 , some years later i wonder after watching this video if 50 years is too much or too less....
Thank you ! Love vanishing point ! ❤
If I have to explain it...you’ll never understand it. I could watch this over and over.
Freedom, I do understand you
brilliant takes me back
Great job , loved this movie loved the car I saw the movie I guess I was 11 just amazing job with the comparisons in time ,thanks for doing this wished someone would do this with Smokey and the bandit original movie but maybe not a lot of real location shots more studio don’t know , but thanks again
Great site to visit someone should do it with a challenger thanks for the video.
Excellent.
Awesome work
I really love this.
Excellent! Thank you!
Amazing! Good Job!
Great video! Well done 😁👍
Awesome. thx for sharing.
Well done! Thank you.
Love the movie awesome video thanks
Very nice! Good job!
Anybody wanna back to 1971?
No, I was eight. Remember my 16 year old uncle talking about the movie after he went to see it.
Excellent video
Maby he gonna highjack that car to Cuba .Or maby he stole that big dude
“Kooba.”
Vanishing Point,Easy Rider,and Billy Jack all had this same kind of feel.
Superb job.
Absolutely superb.
@Richard Short
Cool electrical schematic logo
Nicely done!
What a pilgrimage that would be.
Kowalski lives !