Ahwahnee Hotel
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The Ahwahnee is a grand hotel in Yosemite National Park, California, on the floor of Yosemite Valley. It was built by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company and opened for business in 1927. The hotel is
The Ahwahnee in winter, 2013
David and Jennie Curry's ad for the "Firefall"
Share of the Yosemite National Park Company, issued 29 January 1930
Underwood's concept art shows a megalithic structure much grander in scale than what was finally built
The Shining (film)
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The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson,
Ahwahnee Hotel
…1980, The Ahwahnee is also known for being the inspiration for the interior scene design of the fictional Overlook Hotel in the Stanley Kubrick film The Shining. David and Jennie Curry were schoolteachers who arrived in Yosemite Valley in 1899. The couple ran a tent camp in the valley and, despite the two-week…
UK theatrical release poster
The film's most famous scene, when Jack places his face through the broken door and says, "Here's Johnny!", which echoes scenes in both D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and the 1921 Swedish horror film The Phantom Carriage.
For the ending, Nicholson's face was superimposed over this authentic 1921 dance picture.
Saint Mary Lake with its Wild Goose Island is seen during the opening scene of The Shining.