Aldergrove said goodbye to its spooky piece of Hollywood real estate this week as a crews demolished The Bates Motel set.
The fifth and final season of the A&E adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho wrapped up filming earlier this month, so the replica Bates Motel and the menacing house that loomed above it were both torn down.
The Bates Motel, which starred Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his mother Norma, told the backstory of Norman and how he evolved into a psychopathic killer.
Bates Motel starred Freddie Highmore, left, and Vera Farmiga — examines Norman Bates’s formative years and his relationship with his widowed mother.
The Bates Motel set was located in Aldergrove on 272 Street, just north of 8th Avenue, at the former Jackman Landfill.
The Bates Motel set was demolished this week.
In 2011, a TV crew recreated the famous Bates home and motel at the former Jackman Landfill site in south Aldergrove on 272nd Street.
The Bates Motel is no more.
