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Lindon auction to feature some movie travel trailers

Published: Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 12:03 a.m. MST
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Want to walk where movie stars have trod? A Salt Lake company can help.

Plus, if your price is right, you can ensure that the star-crossed location remains no farther away than your driveway.

Erkelens & Olson Auctioneers will auction 28 trailers — not the promotional films shown before features but the actual truck-drawn vehicles — that were manufactured and leased during a variety of TV and movie productions. They are among the assets of JPS Productions of Lindon that are being auctioned as a result of the company's Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

The trailers include ones used by Jennifer Aniston, Tobey Maguire and other stars and directors on productions including "Touched By an Angel," "Million Dollar Baby," "Pearl Harbor," "Legally Blonde 2," "The Last Samurai," "Everwood" and "Spider-Man."

"The general public might be interested in seven or eight of those because they'd make a very exclusive executive travel trailer — something they could pull up to Strawberry or something," said Rob Olson, president of the auction company.

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"Ninety percent of those are going to have some bearing on the movie and film industry because they're makeup trailers or wardrobe trailers. They have stations for eight or nine people to sit down and have their hair done."

Some trailers simply served as a waiting area for actors and actresses and are complete with leather furniture, satellite TV, flat-screen monitors, granite countertops, bedrooms and living quarters.

Don't ask which stars used which trailers, however. "I'm not sure I can answer that," Olson said. "We're the auctioneers that have gathered this up, collected it and marketed it. I'm going on the information that the debtor supplied to us, and I have every reason to believe him."

Still, Olson said, some of the trailers have names on masking tape on their doors, indicating they were used by a director or a particular star.

The auction will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday at 307 S. 1250 West, Lindon. The JPS real estate will be auctioned at 3 p.m. Previews of the trailers and real estate will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Monday. The auction terms call for cash or certified funds. Bidders on the real estate, which features a 10,000-square-foot building and 1.17-acre paved lot, must register with a cashier's check for $25,000.

Details, including photos of the trailers, are at www.salesandauction.com.

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Interior of one of the trailers that will be auctioned Tuesday in Lindon shows countertops, stools and cabinets used for applying makeup for movie and television stars. A total of 28 trailers are being auctioned.

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