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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday june 28, 1977 modern living tourists by Barbara Cullen staff writer the Hills Are alive with the sound of music the voices of american tourist mimicking Julie  Board a bus Complete with the soundtrack from the 20th Century Fox musical blockbuster that made Maria von Trapp a household word in the sixties tourists set off to see what Hollywood created. Like so Many movies the sound of Tuic in t 100per cent historically accurate. One of the minor techno Cartiea that left austrian who saw the film in a Itale of Shock was the final scene when Christopher Plummer alias Baron Voa Trapp escapes with nil Littlest daughter to Freedom in  toe filmmaker Cote the wrong Mountain for their Stan to climb for to Mountain shown la the movie Borders Germany. The movie makers had the Vontrapp escaping the ads by fleeing into Germany. For movie trivia buffs their escape route was Over the Unterberg. The same Mountain used in where eaglet dare in which Richard Burton and lint Eastwood Rode on top of a Cable car past the guards into the nazi Camp. The sound of music tour is actually combination of a Salzburg City tour and an excursion to the Lake District run by american express. According to tour guide Dale Shamansky a american living la Salzburg the tour began As toe result of people asking to see where the movie was made. She said the majority of people who take the to rare americans however swedes japanese South americans and a lot of English speaking people have made the tour so popular that buses run twice a Day during the summer. During the three hour tour visitors have the Opportunity to see the Tonnberg Convent where the real Maria Kut Schure was a Novice the Church use Din the wedding scene the Little summer House where lies Sang "1 am 16, going on 17," and Theta Iree Homes used in the film As the von Trapp residence As Well As some Beautiful Austria scenery and the City of Salzburg. A popular pastime on the tour is to name that tune As you drive up to a site. One place that  
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