wayne's world?

Question

From the movie 'Wayne's World' - they want independent confirmation that there actually is or was a Stan Mikita's in Aurora. With the skater on top.

Answer 1

I liked the skit when it was on SNL. The movies were ok too. Now what was your question again??

Answer 2

What Wengkuen said - I believe Stan Makita's is a reference to Tim Horton's. Tim Horton is a retired NHL hockey player, there is a chain of donut and coffee shops in Canada and Michigan by the name of Tim Horton's. Stan Makita used to play hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks.

The movie includes a shot of a twenty-foot-tall indian on top of a store. That indian is on top of an optometrist shop at the corner of 63rd and Pulaski on the south side of Chicago.

Answer 3

Wayne's World is a 1992 comedy film starring Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of a cable access television show (called Wayne's World) from Aurora, Illinois. The movie was adapted from a popular sketch of the same name on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The film grossed US$121.6 million in its theatrical run, placing it as the eighth highest grossing film of 1992 and easily the highest grossing movie ever based on a Saturday Night Live skit. It was directed by Penelope Spheeris with Myers co-writing the script.

Wayne's World also featured Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, and Lara Flynn Boyle. Other appearances include Brian Doyle-Murray, Robert Patrick (spoofing his role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Ed O'Neill, Ione Skye, Chris Farley (his first film role), Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.

Wayne's World received mostly positive reviews upon release and was commercially successful (unlike many Saturday Night Live-based films). It was followed by Wayne's World 2. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Wayne's World the 41st greatest comedy film of all time. The success of the film and its sequel led a street in Draper, Utah, to be named "Wayne's World Drive." Draper is approximately 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City.

Wayne and Garth's hobbies included playing street hockey, hanging out at Stan Mikita's doughnut shop (an in-joke on Tim Hortons, a popular Canadian fast food restaurant), avoiding Wayne's ex-girlfriend Stacy, (whom he refers to as a "psycho hose beast"), and catching hot local bands at "Gas Works", a hard rock club in Aurora. (Gas Works was also a Canadian in-joke; it was the name of a real Toronto live music nightclub in the late 1970s and early 1980s which primarily booked hard rock bands.)

The movie was filled with pop culture references and also started a few. Catch phrases like "Not!", "Party on!", Schwing, and "Excellent!" augmented the slacker language of Generation X much as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure had done previously. The movie was also one of the most prominent films featuring a dubiously styled baby blue AMC Pacer with flames and non-matching wheels from the 1970s, which they dub the "Mirth Mobile"[1].

Answer 4

I dont know, but I love that movie...if I find out that there is, I might have to take a little road trip for some coffee and crawlers stat!!