Charlie Chaplin Days
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Charlie Chaplin made a few movies in the historic Niles District of Fremont in 1915. Charlie Chaplin Days is a two-day event held in Niles every year celebrating Chaplin’s brief stay making films locally. The family and I started our day late last Saturday so we got to the event an hour before it ended. When we arrived at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, we caught the tail-end of The Tramp. A Japanese film crew interviewed some of the audience members after the movie was over.
I was expecting the street to be teeming with Charlie Chaplin lookalikes but I only saw a handful. Here are a few that I saw. I failed to take a photo of the most genuine-looking one. I suppose if we had gone much earlier there would have been more around.
