Grab a fresh iced coffee for the road and set off to visit filming locations for The Blob! You can begin your tour on foot here in Phoenixville. Once you’re done viewing the Blob’s trail, we’ve included a few additional movie sets. Click on the film titles below to jump to a location or set of locations. Or, scroll through stop by stop and click on each individual address to open Google maps.
Do take care while driving and if stopping on the sides of roads: Chester County has extremely narrow, winding roads with surprising speed limits, many blind curves, and few shoulders where one can safely and temporarily park.
The theater’s facade has been maintained to look just as it did in the film.
This beautiful private residence facing picturesque Reeves Park is a stone’s throw from the theater, and still bears a sign commemorating filming. (While you’re there, visit Phoenixville’s
Carnegie Library.)
Barkley Elementary School is also within walking distance of the Colonial and has lost none of its vintage charm.
While you’re visiting Royersford, consider dropping by Calhoun Jewelers, our 2022 Festival sponsor.
Jerry’s Market has been
lost to time.
Historic
Yellow Springs is not only the location where, after coming across the celestial object, the Old Man crosses the road, it’s also where Shorty Yeaworth placed his ‘Good News Productions’ film studio. The location has a varied past spanning 300 years and was and is still the site of an art school.
The diner is open 24 hours a day!
The large cemetery is located on a hill overlooking
Coatesville.
You can find your new home in Phoenixville at
Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate, which purchased the gas station shortly after the HBO series filmed there.
From the Terrace (1960) - some report that scenes in this Paul Newman film were shot in Phoenixville.
Gene Wilder - worked as a psychiatric nurse at Valley Forge Military Hospital in Phoenixville, now
University of Valley Forge. 1401 Charlestown Rd.