Bodega Bay, California

Sonoma County

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Bodega Bay is a census -designated place with a population of 1,077 (as of 2010 ) at the same shallow bay of the Pacific Ocean on the coast in the north of the U.S. state of California. Bay and location are approximately 85 kilometers northwest of San Francisco and 32 miles south-west of Santa Rosa. The region is part of the Sonoma County.

History

The Spanish explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega Quadra Mollineda discovered the bay in 1775; However, it had been living for a long time, the Miwok and Pomo Indians in this region. Russian trappers established in 1809 a first base, which developed since 1811 into an important trading post and was maintained until 1841. The remaining inhabitants operated until 1870 a harbor. In the late 1950s a nuclear power plant has been designed in Bodega Bay, at which inflamed the world's first successful anti-nuclear protest.

Known to a wider public the bay was The Birds ( 1963) as the location for Alfred Hitchcock movie. The school building used for exterior shots is located, however, in about eight kilometers inland is the place bodega.

Economy

Most residents of the village living from fishing or tourism. Thus, the bay is a good starting point to observe that take place twice a year Walwanderungen.

Filming location for famous movies

• Bodega Bay was the filming location for various known films:

• The Birds ( 1963) With the exception of the shot in San Francisco input sequence, most of the scenes and all exterior shots in the two cities Bodega and Bodega Bay were filmed.

• The Pack (1977 ) filmed in Bodega Bay.

• The Fog - The Fog (1980 )

• The Goonies (1985 ) Some scenes were filmed on the Sonoma Coast and Bodega Bay.

• Puppet Master (1989 ) The first two, the fourth and the fifth part to play in Bodega Bay.

• Sleepwalkers (1992 ) The opening scene was filmed in Bodega Bay.