June 18, 1980 –
The Blues Brothers Movie, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi premiered on this date. Ounce for ounce (other than Walt Disney’s animated classic The Jungle Book,) the most amount of dope was smoked in film history during the production of a major Hollywood film.
After the concert, the State Troopers chase the Blues Brothers back to Chicago. The scene in which several troopers’ cars crash off the highway embankment was filmed at a closed section of Illinois State Highway 53 in Palatine, Illinois. They had trouble getting the cars to flip over when they went down the embankment, so they dug a hole into the embankment to help the cars flip over as they hit it.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 