Butch Patterson: Private Dick
Cool stories in Hot Weather
Part One: Location Shots

I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Ocnus Productions, and to watch some location filming in July and August of 2000. It was, perhaps, the most fun I'd had in a long time (ok, I had a pretty lousy summer, but that's no excuse).  I took a bunch of pictures, and ended up with a couple of neat memories for the ol' mental scrapbook.  Here, I'll take you on a tour of my head:


This is the first place I stopped after I got off the Queensway in Ottawa.  I got lost trying to find the building, and nearly got into an accident trying to turn around.  But I stopped at the driveway and took a picture of the front part of the building with the official sign.  There isn't an Ocnus sign there, unfortunately, but you know it's there. Really!! It is.
This is the bowling lane on Catherine Street where Butch was filming that weekend.  I had no trouble finding the place, and no trouble parking, but when I got back onto Catherine Street, I had a really hard time finding the Queensway again. I'm just not cut out to live in Ottawa, I guess.  Cheap Plug: Kent Bowling Lanes is a really cool place, it has glow-in-the-dark bowling, and the lane manager was really nice, and let the crew bowl on lunch break. Is that cool or what?? Honestly!
I think Ol' Butchy might have a bit of a problem with this one... though the sign doesn't expressly mention the banning of alcohol in the lanes... ah well. Poor Butch.
Kind of a neat shot of the bowling lanes (13 and 14) that they were using to film that day.  After this shot, a bunch of Greg's professional bowling staff played against me and kicked my ass. Even Greg said I made him look good.


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