Conference 7.286::digital

3487.0. "DEC building (PKO?) used in movie?" by QUARK::LIONEL (Free advice is worth every cent) Thu Nov 03 1994 21:24

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From: [email protected] (Martin H. Booda)
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Subject: DEC Maynard HQ == Jefferson Inst???
Date: 3 Nov 1994 21:05:20 GMT
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    I've been perusing the Web pages at www.digital.com; I especially like the
Grace Hopper page (given the ONR contrib.)

    This is a totally unrelated question.  Sixteen years ago I saw the movie
_Coma_ in Greenfield, Massachusetts.  The next day I drove from Greenfield to
Cape Cod for the weekend.  I got on the Boston Outer Loop at Maynard, and
nearly drove off the road when I looked to my left and saw...the Jefferson
Institute!  (In _Coma_, the Jefferson Institute was where the comatose bodies
were kept in cold storage, suspended by wires, pending organ harvest.)  It
looked exactly like the grim, sterile building in the movie, complete with
guard gate and "Moat".
    It was the DEC building on the Outer Loop in Maynard.
    So, can anyone confirm or deny this?  Was I having a paranoid hallucination
or was I on the money?  The resemblance was startling.  Was the DEC building
used for a location shot in _Coma_?
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It was not PKO in Coma. The building in question is on Route 128. I remember 
some press about it when the movie came out, and shortly thereafter happened to 
be driving by (the facade used in the movie does not overlook 128; it's on a 
local road) and recognized it instantly. 

    It's the Zerox building on rt128. About 13 years ago, just after the
    the movie was made there, DEC leased a floor in that building (mailstop
    ZX). I worked there at the time so I can tell you first hand - many of
    the exterior and interior shots were done in that building. There was
    no connection with Digital however.

    
    However, PKO & COMA & "a bad Movie" all seem to fit together.....
    
    I understand now....
    
    Jon
    
    

    It was a Xerox building with Digital Order Processing Systems and a
    publisher (maybe McMillan) leasing space. It was a temporary move from
    Parker Street. It was a strange looking building with a great cafeteria
    and was where AQS was developed.
    
    michael

> AQS was developed.

yet another COMA connection!

al

    It was as recent as last month when Xerox moved out of that building to
    another one just across the town line in Waltham.
    
    --svb

    Yes it was the Xerox building that overlooks Rt128.  It is located next
    to the old Honeywell facility on Smith Street in Waltham.
    
    I was working at Honeywell at the time of the filming and several of
    our employees were extras for the movie.
    
    Cal

    
    The building in question is still XEROX occupied.
    There is a training facility on the first floor.
    The third floor, until recently (September), was leased by 
    Wentworth Technical School.
    Also, I do believe that street address to be Spring St, Lexington.
    
    I use to work there.....
    
    mike