# M\*A\*S\*H hometowns **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427 "2005-02-04T20:56:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/21 "2016-05-13T02:40:49Z")
We’ve driven through Toledo at least once but not at the right time of day for a food stop. > [@dada2fish](#): > > I’m not sure if Adam’s Ribs is/was a real joint or not Likely not in the Fifties but the name has since been co-opted by a real joint. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/22 "2016-05-13T02:48:50Z")
heh I was born in the fort ord hospital 🙂 Suposedly theres mentions of me a couple times in the fort news as being the first preemie born in the what was then newly new installed neo natal icu in the hospital and then it was news too when I left still breathing … ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/23 "2016-05-13T15:15:56Z")
I was born in Toledo and lived in Ft. Wayne for many years. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/24 "2016-05-13T15:47:37Z")
McLean Stevenson was actually born in Bloomington/Normal Ill. (sister cites) My Dad lived on the same block as him. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/25 "2016-05-13T16:19:17Z")
Wasn’t Capt. Tuttle from Battle Creek, MI? If so…well, I got nuttin’. I’ve never been to Battle Creek, MI. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/26 "2016-05-13T16:24:29Z")
You can’t be “from” Ft Ord; it’s not a town (unlike, say, Fort Wayne). It’s a now-defunct Army base. Hot Lips may have gone through basic training there, or may have been born on the base hospital; but the nearest towns are Monterey and Seaside, CA. (Born on the Monterey Peninsula, and lived for several years in Mill Valley) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/27 "2016-05-13T16:27:31Z")
Wow this thread is a blast from my past. I was working in Ottumwa 11 years ago. Longest month of my life. (Had to drive 45 minutes out of town to get cell phone service.) Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/28 "2016-05-13T16:54:25Z")
Wow, been to every one other then the made up Crabapple Cove, but been to several coastal towns in Maine. In 35 years of over the road trucking I made at least one pick up or delivery in all of those places. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/29 "2016-05-13T16:59:04Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > You can’t be “from” Ft Ord; it’s not a town (unlike, say, Fort Wayne). It’s a now-defunct Army base. Hot Lips may have gone through basic training there, or may have been born on the base hospital; but the nearest towns are Monterey and Seaside, CA. > > (Born on the Monterey Peninsula, and lived for several years in Mill Valley) Margaret’s father was in the Army, so she may have grown up on base, in base family housing, mightn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/30 "2016-05-13T17:05:34Z")
If I can count Moneterey for Fort Ord and going past the Mill Valley turnoff on Highway 101, then I’ve been to all of them excpet Maine. Ottumwa’s not that bad. Or, I should say, I’ve been to plenty of places in Iowa much worse than Ottumwa. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/31 "2016-05-13T17:09:41Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Margaret’s father was in the Army, so she may have grown up on base, in base family housing, mightn’t she? Plausible…although one would think she’d be more likely to name her home as “Army brat”. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/32 "2016-05-13T17:29:37Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Plausible…although one would think she’d be more likely to name her home as “Army brat”. Yeah. But she may just as easily think of home as “wherever Dad is stationed right now” or “That place where I spent my happiest years as a child” - and Fort Ord could be either of those. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/33 "2016-05-13T19:20:33Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > Wasn’t Capt. Tuttle from Battle Creek, MI? > > If so…well, I got nuttin’. I’ve never been to Battle Creek, MI. I’ve been to Battle Creek, MI. It is home to an old client, the Defense Logistics Agency’s disposition services. They set up shop in the old Kellogg Brothers building, originally a sanitarium which eventually morphed into a breakfast food empire. Very historic and interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/34 "2016-05-13T19:51:05Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > If I can count Moneterey for Fort Ord and going past the Mill Valley turnoff on Highway 101, then I’ve been to all of them excpet Maine. > > Ottumwa’s not that bad. Or, I should say, I’ve been to plenty of places in Iowa much worse than Ottumwa. Nice loose meats. Lousy cell phone service (at least 11 years ago). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/35 "2016-05-14T18:55:56Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Margaret’s father was in the Army, so she may have grown up on base, in base family housing, mightn’t she? Which father: the dead one she mentioned to a dance partner at a party or the live one that showed up near the end of the run? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/36 "2016-05-14T19:00:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Which father: the dead one she mentioned to a dance partner at a party or the live one that showed up near the end of the run? Margaret’s father was dead early on in the series, and Hawkeye’s mother alive (and he had a sister); by the end of the series, Margaret’s father was alive, and Hawkeye’s mother had died well before the war, and Hawkeye was an only child. The only solution - time travel! This also explains how the series lasted so much longer than the actual war… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/37 "2016-05-15T01:37:41Z")
I greatly prefer the theory that each season takes place within its own slightly alternate reality. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/38 "2016-05-15T01:55:31Z")
Boston Fort Ord Ottumwa Mill Valley Toledo Won’t Cap’t James T. Kirk be born in Ottumwa? I thought it a fine small town, it’s not Iowa City but just about anywhere in Iowa is a nice place to live. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/39 "2016-05-15T03:20:23Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Won’t Cap’t James T. Kirk be born in Ottumwa? I thought it a fine small town, it’s not Iowa City but just about anywhere in Iowa is a nice place to live. Riverside, Iowa claims to be Kirk’s birthplace. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427/40 "2016-05-15T12:59:18Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I greatly prefer the theory that each season takes place within its own slightly alternate reality. That could work. The same may be true of the Andy Griffith show. In the last episode of one season, after all, a group of bank robbers pretended to be movie producers who were planning on filming a movie in Mayberry, while in the first episode of the next season, the same actors played actual movie producers planning to make a movie in Mayberry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-hometowns/288427.md?page=3)