September 6, 2015 (Jacumba Hot springs) – Jacumba Hot Springs was the scene of a movie production team filming many scenes last month for the new movie “66 & Nowhere” from Soul in the Machine Pictures.
The Jacumba Hot Springs September newsletter reports that the independent film by Erin McClanahan and Chad Boyer of GSO Productions filmed at locations including Jay’s Southern Café and the area near Inkopah Road.
A premier of the film is slated to debut in February at the Kensington Theater on Adams Avenue in San Diego. The movie stars seasoned actress Carol Morrow as the femme fatale.
The film principals have raised about a third of the money needed so far for the production and have set up a fundraising site at www.GoFundMe.com/66andnowhere. Major donors will receive tickets to the film’s premier. You can also watch a trailer of the film at that site.
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Jacumba Hot Springs is Thriving!
Thanks Danielle. Maybe we need an ECM retreat
at the Jacumba Spa. I could use some R&R!!!
Jacumba Hot Springs - revival in the works
Jacumba's spa and dozens of parcels downtown were recently bought by a new owner. The spa has been remodeled and revitalized. They've put up some public art projects and they town is having various festivals to draw people there again. A few artists are there, with hopes by the Jacumba-Boulevard Revitalization folks to draw more in hopes of someday having a mini version of Taos, NM. If the railway ever gets reopened it would run through the old station at Jacumba. There's talk of starting a winery....we'll see. The lake that was nearly dry and clogged with rushes has been partly restored; last time I was out there I saw ducks and other waterfowl.
The town's small town aura is part of the charm to some; it attracts birdwatchers, bikers, hikers, and old car aficionados who cruise through. Not to be missed if you go is the old Desert View Tower along I-8, a classic highway attraction for longer than I can remember.
In bygone days, Jacumba was once a mecca for the silent movie stars of Hollywood, back before the fancy hotel and the old spa/bathhouse burned down, and before I-8 was built taking traffic off old Highway 80. At one point it was almost a ghost town, but it's slowly getting revitalized.
nowhere & Jacumba in same line -- just a coincidence I suppose?