Then and Now – Spaghetti Westerns

Somewhere deep in the deserts of Spain scenes like this were filmed,

Here, Lee Van Cleef was very upset and probably wanted to kill someone.

Today, the situation is hardly any different,

I took this snap on the “down low” because the Spanish lady who was drying her clothes SNARLED at me as I walked by.

Sadly, as far as I can tell, the residents of Los Albaricoques in Spain are NOT happy to have tourists in their town. It is a small town – and a poor one, by the looks of the infrastructure and tremendous trash all over the village. Oddly, there are new signs directing tourists to the key points where scenes in movies were shot. But I could see no benefits to the tourists, except for the many disruptions and “gawkers” this brought into their lives.