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Is Silverado A Real Town?

posted 21 years ago by astoryweaver
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Does anybody know? Is Silverado an actual town in New Mexico or anywhere else? Would love to know.

[–] duck the bold 21 years ago

Silverado was a set built for the movie. I remember seeing one of those "The making of..." type of show long, long ago where they showed it being built.

[–] astoryweaver 21 years ago

Now that you mention it,I remember the credits saying it was in New Mexico. So that means there is no real Silverado?

[–] gdm66 21 years ago

It was a set built for the movie, out in the NM desert. They re-used the set for Wild Wild West (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120891/), but the pyrotechnics went out of control and most of it burned down.

[–] roscoe911 18 years ago

Ive been to this movie set at a friends wedding. This set was used in alot on movies (8 if i remember right) including Lonesome Dove, Silverado, Purgatory. Just south of Sante Fe off the interstate.

[–] cengelm 19 years ago

It's the small time version of El Dorado ('the golden')

[–] Urona 19 years ago

The set was also used in the mini series (for television) "Lonesome Dove", starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones and .... Danny Glover! Made in 1989, I think.

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 16 years ago

Not a real town, but a real truck!

[–] osopestoso 15 years ago

I think they MUST have copied some of the buildings directly from some at Old Tucson.

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[–] grumpyoldguy1 11 years ago

See 'Adventures in Silverado' (1948) as a clue to where the town name was derived.