So, over the weekend, I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time in my 10+ years in Arizona (a crime, I know… but how many New Yorkers have REALLY been to the Statue of Liberty?) and stopped in Prescott on the way back for some dinner.  And lo and behold if the restaurant - a throwback saloon called The Palace - wasn’t absolutely awash in Steve McQueen memorabilia. It seems that portions of the 1972 Sam Peckinpaw-directed rodeo saga (pictured above) were filmed there. One of Arizona’s finest cinematic claims-to-fame.

Of course, with the demise of the movie Western, Arizona is now mostly used as a stand-in for the Middle East (”The Kingdom”) and post-apocalyptic wastelands (”Planet of the Apes”). Hey - we’ll take the work.

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