I attended IU Bloomington (and was a bike rider) when the movie was
filmed. The dad's car lot was just a few blocks from my house and I
biked a lot of the places that the main character, David, rode in the
movie.Much of the campus, including a scene outside the IUB library
(made of limestone from nearby Oolitic quarries), is featured
prominently. Nostalgia fodder after I graduated.

However, don't look at the TV show for a sense of Bloomington. It was
largely filmed in Athens, Georgia. Didn't the organizers of Code4Lib
2007 mention that? :-)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM, McDonald, Robert H.
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks everyone - we feel really honored to be hosting next year's event
> here in Bloomington (a classic college town - please see Breaking Away if
> you have never seen it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/) and we look
> forward to making it a wonderful time for everyone.
>
> Thanks again to our other host proposals from New Haven and Vancouver. Our
> competition made everyone's proposals better.
>
> Best,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> On 3/23/10 9:35 AM, "Michael J. Giarlo" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to Bloomington, Indiana, and our new hosts at Indiana
>> University, for being voted as the host city for Code4Lib 2011!
>>
>> Thanks to all who voted and all the sites that submitted proposals.
>>
>> -Mike
>
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