Trashy Travels

1983’s The House on Sorority Row was filmed in a suburb of Baltimore using the talents of John Waters Dreamlanders Vince Peranio and Robert Maier.  Even Pecker’s Memama (Jean Schertler, FULL OF GRACE!) had a bit part as a nurse!

The 1912 Colonial country mansion (aka Eltonhead) where filming took place was rumored to have been torn down. But after 30 years it’s only been converted into 4 townhomes & completely surrounded by new roads and homes. Just to be sure I found the right location, I’ve supplied an old aerial photo that shows where the famous swimming pool used to be!

A brand new 2-disc dvd was just released and you can even read about the day John Waters showed up on the set in Robert Maier’s Low Budget Hell:  Making Underground Movies with John Waters

And, as luck would have it, the main part of the house (1 of the 4 townhomes) was for sale recently and you can see a picture of the staircase looking exactly like it did in the movie.

And finally, here’s where it is:

26 Bellchase Court, Pikesville, MD 21208*

• This is a newer address given to the house after the surrounding development began.  The mansion used to have a long, winding driveway that led to Park Heights Avenue.

When the Infant of Prague appears to Lady Divine in John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs, he leads her to the Bank Street entrance of the St Michael & St Patrick Catholic Church at 319 South Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231!

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Did everyone get their cha-cha heels for Christmas?  Located at 200 E North Ave Baltimore, MD 21202, the old Polytechnic Institute was used for the school scenes in John Waters’ Female Trouble.

I do not know (yet) if the rooms where filming took place survived the changes made to this site. The gabled structures still remain but the buildings between them have gone through several incarnations. Today, it is the home of the Baltimore City Schools Headquarters!

Have Yourself a Trashy Travels Christmas!

Here are some gift ideas for all the JUVENILE DELINQUENTS and JOHN WATERS fans in your family!

Hairspray by Dana Heller (The FIRST scholarly work on ANY John Waters film!)

Postcards From Divine by Noah Brodie, Dan Marshall, Frances Milstead, Michael O’Quinn (Real postcards that Divine sent to his family during the 80’s!)

John Waters: Interviews by James Egan (A ‘best of’ collection of John Waters interviews.)

Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies w/John Waters by Robert Maier (You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never want to make a movie!)

OUT OF THE DARK (Hairspray was Divine’s last movie with John Waters and THIS is the OTHER last movie that Divine made.)

MANGUS! (John Waters plays JESUS!)

CHRISTMAS EVIL (John Waters does the commentary for his favorite Christmas movie!)

ALL ABOUT EVIL (directed by Peaches Christ & starring Mink Stole!)

Divine Concert T-shirt (Shirts made by me!)

The Superions, Destination…Christmas! (Catchy Xmas tunes from HUGE Divine fans!)

A John Waters Christmas (Happy Birthday, Jesus!)

Divine’s Last Interview (Recorded one week before he died.)

A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia (Everything you have ever wanted to know about Concetta!)  “I should be getting a lot (for Christmas) and I’m gonna take it all back and get the money for it - you can DO that, you know!”

Don We Now Our Gay Apparel!

It’s the John Waters Christmas Tour!  Coming to a city near you!  Or in my case, NOT coming to a city near me.  “Just cause we’re pretty, everybody’s jealous.”

If you go, don’t forget to tell him that Trashy Travels sent you!

“My hair is fallin’ right down, right off my head!” ~ Dawn Davenport (Divine) in John Water’s Female Trouble

I made a revolutionary discovery tonight that only fans of Trashy Travels will appreciate! Dawn Davenport, Chicklette & Concetta attack a bum at 864 & 858 Tyson Street in John Waters’ Female Trouble..which is also the same exact alley where Divine ate shit at the end of Pink Flamingos! Also, 22 years ago today we lost Cookie Mueller to AIDS. Rest in peace, Concetta!

I’ve always wanted a Divine concert t-shirt so I decided to design my own that you can buy too!

Also, a reminder:  If you’d prefer to not have to dig through my blog to find a John Waters Movie Location, you can just “LIKE” Trashy Travels on Facebook where I have individual photo albums for each movie!

The RSVP Charm School from John Waters’ Cry-Baby is really Cloisters Castle at 10440 Falls Rd., Lutherville, MD 21093! This is where we learned the four “B’s”! Beauty, Brains, Breeding, Bounty!!!

“How’s this for a center spread?” ~ Divine in Pink Flamingos

Here are two amazing shots of Melissa McCarthy as Divine in the new comedy issue of Entertainment Weekly on shelves 10-28-11!

Today would have been Divine’s 66th Birthday!  Let’s keep Divine’s memory alive and make sure the new documentary, I AM DIVINE, gets made!  If you’ve thought about donating to the fan fundraising campaign, today is the day to do it!  There are only 6 days left!  Everyone from John Waters to Mink Stole to Ricki Lake has been interviewed for this larger-than-life film!

This “poster” is my little tribute for the day…or as Cotton would say, “It’s a birthday card!  A fucking birthday card!”

Babs Johnson goes into town in John Waters’ Pink Flamingos!  One of the many locations seen was the Howard Theater at 115 N. Howard Street. While the theater is long gone, the thingamajig on the building next door is still there, helping me pinpoint this location!

“My walk over here was fabulous!  Everyone was staring and gawking at me like I was a princess!”

One of the most memorable scenes in John Waters’ Female Trouble is when Dawn Davenport is headed to the Lipstick Beauty Salon and we get to see people’s real reactions to this modeling show that was filmed at the 1st Marina Arena (formerly the Baltimore Civic Center) at W Baltimore St & S Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.

I highly suggest doing something like this in your own life because you never know what kind of reaction you’ll get.  A few years ago, a friend of mine put on a long, nasty, blonde wig that was obviously fake and we were just out walking around with a group of people like it was her normal look.  We weren’t even purposely trying to get on anyone’s nerves, she just felt like wearing a wig that day.  Well, someone driving by must not have liked it and yelled out at us, “Take off that wig you ugly whore!!”

If there can’t be a sequel to John Waters’ Pink Flamingos, then how about a prequel?  Babs Johnson was a baby once, too!

Forget all that, what we really need is big screen documentary about the cult superstar, Divine!  For the first time EVER, fans can make it happen thanks to director Jeffrey Schwarz (Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon)!  There’s only 2 weeks left in the fan fundraising campaign for I AM DIVINE!  Everyone can donate at every price point and there are a gazillion incentives!  Click here for all the info you need!