Location #1: Dorothy’s house
Near the Coast of Mendocino, California, United States
Location #2: Hermie’s house
At Ukiah Street & Woodward Street, Mendocino, California, United States
Location #3: Market
45040 Main Street, Mendocino, California, United States
Location #4: Movie theater
At 10450 Lansing Street, Mendocino, California, United States
Location #5: Hermie and Oscy walk to the corner of..
Lansing Street & Ukiah Street, Mendocino, California, United States
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Love this. My husband and I just watched Summer of 42 again. I told him it didn’t look like the east coast. I grew up on Cape Cod and Nantucket. I spent my adult years on the Sonoma and Mendocino coast. I told him it was Mendocino, that the surf was too rough for Nantucket and the big rocks gave it away. I win.
Could tell from having lived on both coasts that this was filmed on the west coast, but not sure where. Oregon is a little more rugged than this.
It was the sunset that gave it away, The Sun does set over the over on the east coast, only on the West coast it sets in the ocean like it did at the end of the movie.
Summer of ’42 – had the “romantic” roles been reversed, gender-wise, wouldn’t the theme be turned into a criminal one. Young teachers have been convicted & jailed for seducing 14-year-olds. Was it maybe the fact that it was made at the end of the 60’s, the “summer of love” & Woodstock, the “permissive” era?
I still enjoy the movie, in spite of the fore mentioned. The theme song has always filled me with a vague, unfocused, haunting feeling of days passed, forever gone into the mists of personal memory
The map indicating where Dorthy’s house was, is incorrect. The house location is much farther up north.
You’re right. It’s not we’re they think it is. I think was located on the stretch along heeser drive a bit north.
Another thing in the movie that gives it away as not being East Coast is you can see mountains in the near distance in several shots. I used to work for a state legislator whose district included Mendocino. It wasn’t until the third or fourth visit that I learned Summer of ’42 was shot there. I just watched the movie again and everything is real familiar.