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Fairmount, Ind. (pop. 2,992), boasts
more than its fair share of famous former resi
dents, including Garfield creator Jim Davis,
CBS national news commentator Phil Jones
and Robert C. Sheets, director of the National
Hurricane Service.
But none of them influenced popular culture like actor
James Dean, who starred in film classics such as East of
Eden. Rebel Without a Cause and Giant , then died at age
24 in a Gilifornia car crash nearly 51 years ago, on Sept.
30, 1955. At the time of his death, he'd been pegged as
a Hollywood leading man in-the-making; afterward, he
ascended to the status of a live-fast, die-young American
icon—a ' rebel” on a motorcycle, or in a hot rod convertible,
headed toward the horizon and setting his own course.
Each year, Dean's hometown honors his legacy with
the Fairmount Museum Days/Remembering James
Dean festival, sponsored by the Fairmount Historical
Museum. On Sept. 21-24, nearly 50,000
fans are expected to swell the streets
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Festival-goers often bring their own classic restored cars—
such as the Porsche Spyder convertible like Dean drove.
grown—slightly—in the years since Dean walked
its streets. It now boasts a “Giant” bar (festooned
with a mural of Dean), as well as a supermarket,
two gas stations, two banks and a laundromat. But
the town is mostly unchanged from the days when
photographer Dennis Stock took his now-famous
pictures of a brooding Dean at home in Indiana.
And fans wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I think it amazes most of us that (fans) do come
each year, that this has lasted,” says Melba Root,
president of the Fairmount Town Council. “And a
lot of them come back because they just like this
regular, little, early American town."
They also like to pore over the Dean exhibit at
the museum, which is the world's largest reposi-
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