How did fans and others in the small town where “Dirty Dancing” was filmed remember Patrick Swayze?”
Tucked away in North Carolina is the small town of Lake Lure where Patrick Swayze once twirled Jennifer Grey around the dance floor. The town served as the setting for Dirty Dancing and in remembrance of the great man and actor, the town is planning a memorial to celebrate Patrick Swayze. On Saturday, the town will honor him with a memorial service at 7 p.m. at Firefly Cove, recognizable to fans as Camp Chimney. The service is free, but visitors will be asked to donate to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Sounds like a wonderful way to remember a wonderful man.
LONDON – Locals of a North Carolina community, where Patrick Swayze’s film ‘Dirty Dancing’ was shot, are planning a memorial service for the late star. The ‘Ghost’ star died on Monday evening after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The town of Lake Lure will pay homage to the 57-year-old during a memorial service on Saturday evening at Firefly Cove, a housing development that was Camp Chimney Rock when ‘Dirty Dancing’ was filmed. Many outdoor scenes in the film were filmed there, as was the cabin of Johnny Castle, Swayze’s character. While the memorial service is free, visitors will be asked to donate to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Rev Everette Chapman, who will be speaking at the memorial service, said that the town’s residents remember Swayze as a kind family man. Chapman, who lived at Lake Lure when the movie was filmed but did not meet the actors, said he would talk about Swayze’s determination to live each day to the fullest. “I’ll ask people their memory of him and
Fans and extras from the movie gathered Saturday to remember Patrick Swayze in the little North Carolina town where “Dirty Dancing” was filmed. The service was held at Firefly Cove, where Patrick’s character, Johnny Castle, lived in the movie. Firefly Cove is a housing development now, but broker Terry Tincher says most people who visit are more interested in “DIrty Dancing” than in buying a new home: We do more ‘Dirty Dancing’ tours than property tours. It’s amazing the following that movie has. … The ladies cry, the guys get teary-eyed.” You can still visit the cove where Patrick and Jennifer Grey practiced lifts in the movie.
