The Bob Mathias Story Filming Locations
Where was The Bob Mathias Story filmed? The Bob Mathias Story was filmed in 1 locations across United States in the following places:
The Bob Mathias Story Filming Locations
Tulare is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 68,875 per the 2020 census. It is located in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, 8 mi south of Visalia and 60 mi north of Bakersfield. The city is named after the Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes.
The Bob Mathias Story (1954)
California school boy and Stanford University student Bob Mathias was the first man to win two Olympic Gold Medals in the Decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. The film begins with him as a 17-year-old schoolboy in Tulare, California where his high school track coach, played by Ward Bond, encourages him to train for the Olympics, with the Dacathlon in mind. His story, far from over, ends here with his victory in the 1952 Olympics and with Mathias in the U.S. Marine Corps. He and his wife, Melba, play themselves in one of the few movie bios that doesn't play fast and loose with the facts, especially in a bio with the subject playing himself.