What happened to Peidmont Arizona from the Si Fi movie “The Andromeda Strain”?
It was a real city in Arizona, then disappeared from the maps. Is that the reason that name was chosen for the movie?
Update:It WAS in Arizona. Found a sign next to a railroad track. Any body know what happened to it ?
Update 3:There was a real town Piemont, Arizona. It existed in real life, and yet it was the same name as the movie. What happened to it? Anybody know anyone who lived there? Any grandparents or relatives?
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Piedmont is a ghost town that was located between Weawer Mountains and Date Creek Mountains on Date Creek Road (Yavapai Route 62) between Hilside and Congress.
I don’t know something about the place, the only thing left of the town - is the sign beside Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
It's still on some maps; It simply no longer has any inhabitants. I would assume that Michael Crichton chose Piedmont, Arizona as a setting for his novel because it was already deserted - no natives would complain about any errors in appearance or topography (as I certainly would complain about serious errors in depicting Arlington Road in the 1999 film of the same name - which looks nothing like the Arlington Road in Bethesda, Maryland or any part of suburban Maryland or even northern Virginia, despite being set in that area).
I'm not sure about Piedmont, Arizona being a real town but wasn't Piedmont from the book/movie located in New Mexico? I may be mistaken, it's been a while since I've read that book.
That was a log time ago, but I'm pretty sure that everyone's blood dried, except the baby and the milk-drinking alcoholic. The strain kept mutating so that you couldn't find a single cure until it mutated into something harmless. ...I think.