I always wince when I see a character in a recent movie or TV show checking out books from the New York Public Library’s main branch, which hasn’t contained a circulating collection for over 50 years.
I enjoyed Haven, but there aren’t any cities that size in that part of Maine. Perhaps Ellsworth? Machias? Not really as big as implied.
There definitely isn’t a mountain range visible near Claremore Oklahoma as seen in “Oklahoma”
Miami and Miami Beach are two different cities. Miami Beach has no major sports teams, but that doesn’t keep networks from saying, “Tonight in Miami Beach!! So and so face so and so!”
It isn’t my city or region, but on this morning’s episode of Leave It to Beaver, the boys took a trip to visit their aunt, and came home with a starfish in their luggage which they picked up on the beach during their trip.
I’ve always had the impression that the Cleavers lived somewhere in the midwest (despite the occasional CA backdrops that look a lot like Korea in MASH, and their recent trip to an alligator farm that had palm trees), so I’m not sure which ocean they could reach via a four-dollar afternoon train ride (which they didn’t have enough funds for after blowing it on snacks).
A friend who was visiting the SF Bay Area from out of town had a semi-comedic crush on oft-killed actor Michael Biehn. At her urging we did the Alcatraz Island tour and she was amusedly crushed to see that none of the interior locations, like the one where Biehn is gunned down early in the film The Rock, actually existed 
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Speaking of Union Station. In one of the first few episodes of Sean Bean vehicle Legends, his character has a fight in Chicago’s “Union Station” which is clearly one of the underground CTA stops with L trains passing through as the fight progressed.
On one hand, it was a neat location that they snagged for the shooting and one that doesn’t get shown on TV very often. On the other hand, it was definitely not Union Station. There didn’t seem to be any reason why they had to call it Union in the first place.
I’ve lived in both metropolitan areas and there is a slight difference: they swap “oi” and “ur” sounds. In the stereotypical New York accent, “bird” is “boid”; in the stereotypical New Orleans accent, “boil” is “burl”.
Why wince, though? That library is iconic. What would be the purpose of showing someone going into a nondescript, unknown New York Public Library?
It’s interesting to note these kinds of discrepancies, but in many cases, I think it’s perfectly fine to do things like this. The purpose of a movie or show isn’t to faithfully reproduce real life details like this.
I’ve always been puzzled by this, but apparently there’s some accent which I think is from the New York area that does that same substitution. I recall Art Carney playing New Yorker Ed Norton on The Honeymooners, pronouncing “oyster” as “erster”.
Yep, and my NYC born and raised grandparents used to “burl the earl” and had a “terlet”. In their accent , the swap went in both directions.
Now I’m wondering if the New Orleans accent is the result of migrating New Yakkers.
I mentioned something back in post 66 or so - from what I’ve read, the similarities are not due to migrating New Yorkers but due to both port cities attracting immigrants from the same countries
White people in Miami definitely have one…well…a lot…
Well, the answer to that one is a bit more complicated. That was one story we were given growing up as kids here. Another was because of our boisterous nature duing the World’s Fair in the late 1800s. Another is, simply, because it is somewhat windy here.
It’s certainly not clear-cut which is the correct explanation. My feeling is that it probably does originate from the actual weather, and then took on a double meaning later.
Despite what Age of Ultron might lead you to believe, Johannesburg is not within a single Hulk leap of any ocean. Especially not any beaches where ship-breaking happens, as those are all in Asia…
In the forgettable movie Elizabethtown, Orlando Bloom drives north on I-65 from Louisville International Airport on his way to the titular city. You can tell because he passes this on his left-hand side.
But Elizabethtown is south from that airport. The way that Bloom is heading would take him straight into southern Indiana.
In the finale two parter, they had a scene set at the San Francisco train station. Funny how it looked EXACTLY like LA Union Station! Must be the same architect! 
First time I visited LAUS, I was amazed. It was like i’d been there many times! Not only as a train station, but as the headquarters for the Blade Runner unit.
Speaking of SF, on an early McMillan & Wife, they were down at the docks, and clearly visible in the background was a large building that was labeled “PORT OF LO”, and the rest was cut off by a closer building. LO what? They weren’t even trying with that one.
Right! Miami is just about 60 miles north of Claremore on Rte 66.
It’s a little disconcerting the first time you see it, but Amtrak has the same station abbreviation system as the airlines. So your ticket to or from Union Station shows “LAX”.
(Port of LO? Never heard of it. < grin >)
The Blues Brothers has a number of them, but one that sticks out is most of the final Nazi-Blue Brothers chase scene was filmed in Milwaukee. I remember watching it a few times before the internet and scratching my head at that scene, as none of the roads were making any sense to me. No part of 90/94 came that close to the lake (they briefly showed a Van Buren and Jackson exit), the shots of the highway didn’t look familiar at all. It wasn’t until a couple years later visiting Milwaukee that I realized where that scene was filmed.