These shops are actually art galleries but in Hollywood I guess all small towns need a candy store and a bakery? I do wonder how all these changes affect local businesses - most have signs in front of them to disregard the stuff for the movie set and come on in. The benches aren't normally there and they lined the street with bark.
Believe it or not the Madrid general store usually looks like this complete with a bookshelf of free paperbacks on the porch. They added even more Christmas lights and a bunch of ristras. The movie equipment in the front of the photo was just left there - since they don't shoot on weekends they had various people sitting around keeping an eye on all the stuff all over the town.
Here's a new gazebo, a ton of new grass, and various set items for the fake chile festival. They also had carts full of chiles and an old yellow pick-up truck full of watermelons.
Here are some fake gas pumps in front of an art gallery. They also had a fake ice cream shop selling kumquat ice cream (yeah, right), a fake post office, a fake bicycle and lawnmower repair shop, and a fake beauty shop.
This entire building is new - a fake diner. You can see the yellow tape around the front to keep us non-movie people out.
I also took some Santa Fe photos and I'll have those and a photo of the socks on another day.
