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Our new star locale: the landfill
By STEVE HUETTEL
Published August 21, 2006
The folks promoting movie and television commercial production in Pinellas County are pitching a hot, new location. It's got a funky view of a trailer and a tree atop a hill. It's got a dirt road winding through sloping green fields. It's even got a desolate sand hill scene that could double for west Texas or Iraq. It's ... the county landfill in the Gateway section of northeast St. Petersburg. Trucks dump garbage in only a small part of the site at any given time, said Jennifer Parramore, the county's film commissioner. That leaves lots of open space, untouched or restored to nature, for crews to work without worrying about people wandering onto the set. No one has shot at the site, Parramore says, but an interactive marketing firm plans to use it in an infomercial for pickup truck bed liners. The idea came from Guy Balson, the new film commission manager who had scouted other Florida landfills as a freelance film "location manager." His other brainstorm: the Mahaffey Theater lobby. It would be a great set for scenes in a hotel lobby or restaurant, Parramore says.
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