Barstow Station and other stretches of Route 66 in Arizona and California will be featured in a documentary currently being shot by the Tokyo Broadcasting System, according to the Desert Dispatch in Barstow, Calif.
Barstow Station serves as home to the Barstow Route 66 Mother Road Museum.
Yoko Honda, the location and production manager for the documentary, said the documentary should be aired early next year. She said that there will also be a DVD made and that she plans to give a copy to the City of Barstow.
Honda said that she is based in Los Angeles, but said that the rest of the film crew was from Japan. She said that the crew was looking forward to the rest of their trip on Route 66.
“We started in Santa Monica this morning and we will be traveling along Route 66 for most of the way into Needles tonight,” said Honda.
Honda said that the crew was going to travel to Arizona on this trip along Route 66 before flying back to Los Angeles. The crew is going to be filming the documentary in several segments.
Honda said that the documentary will feature famous and historic places around Route 66.
The newspaper also said that downtown Barstow was used earlier in the week for scenes for a movie titled “Pizza Man,” starring Frankie Muniz, most famously known for the lead role in the television series, “Malcolm in the Middle.”