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In article <39bjag$ru0@spitfire.navo.navy.mil>, booda@lynx.navo.navy.mil 
(Martin H. Booda) writes:
|>    This is a totally unrelated question.  Sixteen years ago I saw the movie
|>_Coma_ in Greenfield, Massachusetts.  The next day I drove from Greenfield to
|>Cape Cod for the weekend.  I got on the Boston Outer Loop at Maynard, and
|>nearly drove off the road when I looked to my left and saw...the Jefferson
|>Institute!  (In _Coma_, the Jefferson Institute was where the comatose bodies
|>were kept in cold storage, suspended by wires, pending organ harvest.)  It
|>looked exactly like the grim, sterile building in the movie, complete with
|>guard gate and "Moat".
|>    It was the DEC building on the Outer Loop in Maynard.
|>    So, can anyone confirm or deny this?  Was I having a paranoid hallucination
|>or was I on the money?  The resemblance was startling.  Was the DEC building
|>used for a location shot in _Coma_?

I posted your question in one of our internal notes conferences and got
the response that the building in the movie was a Xerox facility somewhere
off of Mass. Rt. 128.  A Digital employee who worked there when the movie was
made said that the building was used for many exterior and interior shots.

There is a Digital connection, though - shortly after the movie was made, we 
did lease space in that building for a year or so for our order processing 
department.

I'm a bit puzzled at your reference to the "Boston Outer Loop at Maynard".
The two "loop" roads around Boston are Rt. 128 (now called I95 for most of
its length), which is about 11 miles outside of Boston, and I495 which is
about 30 miles out.  Maynard isn't on either of these routes - there's
a Maynard exit on I495 but the town itself is several miles to the east.

If you were driving to Cape Cod from Greenfield, you would be extremely
unlikely to drive through Maynard (unless you loved driving on back roads
for no good reason).  The Coma building doesn't overlook 128 (at least its
front doesn't), so I don't think you would have seen it there.
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