![]() ![]() Most of the film locations were to the north near the rail line but the town’s heart seems to have drifted south, now lining Highway 87, so there’s little left to see of Joe Buck’s Big Spring. ![]() Since then, the town has been hit by the Great Depression and the gradual decline of the railways. Standing on I-20 between Midland and Abilene at the junction with Highway 87, its main landmark today is the 13-story Hotel Settles, built in 1930 following the boom of the Twenties. ![]() The film is set largely in a scuzzy, pre-clean-up New York but opens in the West Texas town of Big Spring, where Joe Buck ( Jon Voight) dreams of transforming himself into a cowboy stud to escape his dreary life as a dishwasher.īig Spring was one of the railroad towns which sprang up as the Texas and Pacific Railroad pushed west in the 1880s. It’s no surprise to discover that most of the run-down locations for John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning 1969 drama have been either demolished or renovated. ![]()
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