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I did a bit of research. According to the HBO
“In Azusa, Carmen, invites Claire to stay awhile to escape the desert heat.”
In the Six Feet Under universe, Azusa is in the desert.
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Holy crap. That doesn’t even make sense. Why not just name a town that’s actually in the desert? Or at least one that’s not just a quick drive down the 210, nestled between green hills?
OP’s question should allow for movies/shows where the location is integral to the story line. Often productions just have an establishing shot done by the second unit and then the rest is done with the talent on sound stages. Where the establishing shot is done is often unimportant to the story. In “Pulp Fiction,” for example, you can identify some of the exteriors, but it’s not important for them to be “faithful.” On the other hand, there was a movie called “Falling Down,” where a guy gets stuck in traffic on the bottom level of the four-level interchange next to downtown L.A. He freaks out, abandons his car, and determines to walk to Santa Monica. In the beginning, the movie is faithful to the geography of the city, as he goes through Angelino Heights, Echo Park, and then Silver Lake. But then all of a sudden he winds up in the Beverly Hills Country Club. ?
[QUOTE=fiddlesticks]
It was filmed the summer of 1988 which featured a terrible drought in the Midwest. The producers had to spend lots of money irrigating the hell out of the cornfield to keep it green and to get the corn to grow tall enough so the ball players could properly appear out of it. It was the only healthy cornfield in the area. But they still had to paint the grass on the ballfield green after the sod they brought in didn’t take. 
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I didn’t know that. I remember that drought though. I was living in Seattle but came back to Iowa for a high school reunion. The drought was so bad that there were no mosquitoes. Fish were dead and stinking in the creeks. Man, it was hot.
We went to Dyersville a few years ago. The grass on the ball field is like a carpet – really thick and soft. The owners said they spend $300 a month on water and fertilizer, and that’s without drought conditions.
[QUOTE=pepperlandgirl]
Holy crap. That doesn’t even make sense. Why not just name a town that’s actually in the desert? Or at least one that’s not just a quick drive down the 210, nestled between green hills?
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It was bizarre. How difficult would it have been to have her go to, say, Indio?
[QUOTE=twickster]
Wasn’t that in Reading Terminal, back when there still was a Reading Terminal?
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Pretty sure it was 30th Street. IMDB lists “30th Street” and “Philadelphia”.
The Game Of Their Lives was filmed (partially) on The Hill, with some of the signs changed to be 1950s. And the signs were all they changed.
Before my time, and not my hometown, but I recognize it NO problem: Any Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood was filmed in Georgetown, Colorado. If you go there, you can actually pick out the individual addresses where they’re beating each other up!
[QUOTE=phungi]
Pretty sure it was 30th Street. IMDB lists “30th Street” and “Philadelphia”.
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You may be right – I haven’t seen it since it came out. I may have misremembered Reading Terminal, since wasn’t the premise that they were in Philly for Reading Terminal Market?
Sorry to violate the OP but I wanted to chime in and say how badly film makers portray London. Most films depict it as entirely composed of Canary Wharf or Kensington town houses with very little in between. If you want a show that gives you London properly watch the UK version of the Apprentice as they do some amazing helicopter shots - to quote Chris Moyles “I live in London and the Apprentice makes ME want to live here”.
[QUOTE=twickster]
You may be right – I haven’t seen it since it came out. I may have misremembered Reading Terminal, since wasn’t the premise that they were in Philly for Reading Terminal Market?
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Now that I think of it, you are correct… they were in town for the market, but perhaps all the train station scenes were shot at 30th Street… I actually remember the bathroom at 30th Street they shot it in, but good catch!
Keeping with the Philly theme, Trading Places captured many a city-scene accurately, save for some odd displacing of offices and homes.
I think the recent live-action Transformers depicted Hoover Dam very accurately, especially the giant room with a humongous robot frozen in the middle. Be sure you ask to see that part on the tour.
I can name a handful of places–one of which is from Ransom (w/Mel Gibson). I know the one rock quarry he ends up in is right off if I-287 just outside of Pequannock/Wayne.
[QUOTE=Obsidian]
The Sopranos captured North Jersey (and more specifically, Bergen County) so well sometimes that it made me homesick. I’d watch just to see stores, buildings, roads, etc, that reminded me from home-- including my favorite diner and the candy shop down the street from my Dad’s business.
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Mine too–I can name some of the places in the backgrounds of some of the scenes, but rarely having the ability to watch it, I could never get into the series. Obsidian, where are you originally from?
Tripler
[QUOTE=Antonius Block]
{Regarding Dirty Harry).
Coit Tower to Fort Mason is just over one mile, and it’s nearly a straight shot Chestnut St / Columbus Ave / Bay St. Mount Davidson to Kezar is well over 2 miles, and much more hilly and twisty.
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Wrong Fort. I meant Fort Funston.