We’ve driven through Toledo at least once but not at the right time of day for a food stop.
Likely not in the Fifties but the name has since been co-opted by a real joint.
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 …
I was born in Toledo and lived in Ft. Wayne for many years.
McLean Stevenson was actually born in Bloomington/Normal Ill. (sister cites)
My Dad lived on the same block as him.
Wasn’t Capt. Tuttle from Battle Creek, MI?
If so…well, I got nuttin’. I’ve never been to Battle Creek, MI.
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)
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…
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.
Margaret’s father was in the Army, so she may have grown up on base, in base family housing, mightn’t she?
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.
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.
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!
Nice loose meats. Lousy cell phone service (at least 11 years ago).
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…
I greatly prefer the theory that each season takes place within its own slightly alternate reality.
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.
Riverside, Iowa claims to be Kirk’s birthplace.
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.