Riverton Grocery Store

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Location: 1200 W Main Street, Riverton, WY
GPS:   43d 1m 32s    -108d 24m 31s
Map / Satellite Image: Google Link
 

Travel Directions:
Entering Riverton from the west, US-26 becomes Main Street.
Smith’s Food Center is to the left at 1200 W Main Street, between N Major Avenue and N 11th Street W.

Remarks:
Annie Proulx once told a reporter that she gets interesting story ideas while waiting in line at the grocery store. As such, we are not surprised that Alma and her second husband ended up working in one.

Unlike the film’s vintage grocery, the store we found in Riverton is pretty modern. But, true to the film, it is an easy walk from the laundry, which is just down the street.

See:
http://services.smithsfoodanddrug.com/mapquest/storedetails.aspx?recordId=70600183

Quotation:
“She was working at a grocery store clerk job, saw she’d always have to work to keep ahead of the bills on what Ennis made.” [1]

[1] Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Scribner) ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9416-4, page 15.

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