All that was left were the rusted hulks of a military Jeep and an old Army ambulance.īoth were burned in an Oct. It was a special film for me - an emotional thing,” Kyriacou said.Īfter toting the signpost about half a mile, Rooney and Rackow reached the set. “It was one of the first films that touched me.
MASH SIGNPOST FOR SALE TV
The directional arrows drew appreciative looks from other hikers on the rutted fire road.ĭave Tillett, 49, a retired chemical engineer from Thousand Oaks, acknowledged he was a fan of the 11-year TV show.Īndreas Kyriacou, 52, a retired chemical engineer who lives in Newbury Park, loved the 1970 movie. Rooney and Rackow maneuvered a four-wheel-drive truck carrying the replica of the “MASH” signpost as close as they could before mud forced them to finish on foot. These days, park rangers and docents have been trained to answer questions about the shows and films shot there.Īs proof, Hoffman good-naturedly rattles off some facts and figures about the Blandings House - like how it was built at 7/8 scale so Cary Grant would look taller, and with movable interior walls so cameras could get the most flattering shots of co-star Myrna Loy. “But people come up every day and ask about ‘MASH.’ Last year when two experts, Harry Medved and Mike Malone, led a hike to the set, 250 people showed up in the rain to go with them.”
Go to Universal Studios if you want to know about films,’ ” Hoffman said with a laugh. “At first I’d tell them, ‘Ask me about birds and I can tell you. Blandings Builds His Dream House” was filmed. “When I first came here in 1988, people were always asking ‘MASH’ this or ‘MASH’ that,” said state parks Ranger Tony Hoffman as he stood in the doorway of the Blandings House, where the 1948 comedy “Mr. It was the backdrop for a primate-run world in “Planet of the Apes” in 1968 and where “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” were chased over a cliff by a pursuing posse in 1969.īut it is “MASH” that matters most to park visitors, who come from all over the world to see for themselves the Korean wartime world inhabited by Hawkeye, Hot Lips, BJ, Trapper John and the others who filled out the landmark black comedy’s on-camera Army surgical team. It doubled for Wales in 1941’s best-picture Oscar winner, “How Green Was My Valley” and was Shangri-La in 1937’s “Lost Horizon.”
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