Upsala College - Television and Film

Television and Film

The derelict college campus was featured as a demolition project – used resources recovery – in the "Coal Miner" episode in season 2 of Dirty Jobs, a popular show on the Discovery Channel. It initially aired on August 8, 2006.

The 2001 film Riding in Cars with Boys was filmed on the campus.

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