Because it's a small world, after all.

From a recent article about filming the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road", which has been delayed by the studio for a later release date. It couldn't have anything to do with the story being terribly bleak and dystopian, I suppose?

Spoilers, ahoy, people - you've been warned!:

"The Road" began filming in late February, mostly in and around Pittsburgh, with a later stop in New Orleans and a postproduction visit planned to Mount St. Helens. The producers chose Pennsylvania, one of them, Nick Wechsler, explained, because it's one of the many states that give tax breaks and rebates to film companies and, not incidentally, because it offered such a pleasing array of post-apocalyptic scenery: deserted coalfields, run-down parts of Pittsburgh, windswept dunes. Chris Kennedy, the production designer, even discovered a burned-down amusement park in Lake Conneaut and an eight-mile stretch of abandoned freeway, complete with tunnel, ideal for filming the scene where the father and son who are the story's main characters are stalked by a cannibalistic gang traveling by truck.

No kidding - I'll be there about five days from now. Only part of the midway burned, not the whole park (the work of some g-damned arsonist). If I can get into the park, which had been closed for a while even before the midway fire, I plan on taking some pictures.

This was the midway, after the fire: