The TV show Forever Knight was filmed in Toronto and set there as well.
Denver is not, in fact, located high in the Rocky Mountains. From downtown Denver, one must drive through about 20 miles of suburbs before even reaching the foothills, from which one has a good view of the mountains but one still has another 20 miles of driving before one can be considered driving “in the mountains.”
Speaking movies/shows shot in Vancouver the film Rumble in the Bronx starring Jackie Chan was shot there. Obviously there are no mountains near the real Bronx as there are around Vancouver as shown in the movie.
You know joe nearly every action movie or thriller or crime show or drama or comedy set in New York has at least one scene set in an alleyway? Things happen in urban alleyways. Life happens in a city’s alleyways.
Well, as a matter of fact, Manhattan has almost no alleyways.
Real estate is too valuable to sacrifice to alleyways. That’s why Manhattan is a dirty, stinky place—because all the garbage has to be left right out there on the sidewalk. And it’s such a big city that it’s always garbage day somewhere. So if you walk more than a couple of blocks in Manhattan, you’re going to have to walk down a block in which you’re going to have to dodge all the fœtid, leaking garbage bags and cans left out for collection.
And what about all those scene filmed in alleyways? Are they fake? A studio set? Nope. They’re just all shot in the one damn alleyway that exists in Manhattan that looks like a real New York City alley.
E.g., Northern Exposure was set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, but filmed in Roslyn, Washington.
The word is turnpike. My understanding of the origin of the term—A pike is a pole. A pole was set up to block access to a road on a mechanism like a gate so that it could be rotated (“turned”) out of the way once the toll was paid.
Most of the film is set in Minnesota—Brainerd, Minneapolis, Moose Lake.
That was the one with the snake in the well. I quit watching after that. The only thing accurate about it was the cracks in the windshields of the pickups.
Most movies or shoes with scenes in Washington, D.C., are obviously fake because they have skyscrapers. There are no skyscrapers in Washington.
There certainly aren’t any overlooking the White House, which I’m sure I’ve seen depicted in multiple movies.
The establishing shots of Murphy Brown are of a tall building, supposedly the network HQ (presumably CBS) on M Street in Georgetown. There are no tall buildings in Georgetown.
This is what the CBS News Washington bureau looked like at the time — it’s the squat building in the foreground —
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Much of Season 1 of the D.C. Comics superhero show Titans takes place in Ohio. At one point the characters are traveling across Ohio by passenger train (something that you can do only in a few specific places) and there’s a fight scene that is later spoken of as having taken place at the train station in Dayton. All passenger train service to Dayton stopped in 1979 and the station was completely demolished by 1989.
Also on Titans—there’s a tragic traffic accident that destroys a large wooden curbside sidewalk news stand kiosk in D.C. There are no news stand kiosks like that in Washington.
And one of the characters, Hank Hall/Hawk, is supposed to have been born and raised in D.C. but he has such a strong Boston accent that every time he opens his mouth you get the feeling he is going to bust out and dance like Marky Mark Wahlberg.
Isn’t there an ordinance that no building can be taller than the Capitol dome?
There is a height limit, yes, but not quite in those terms.
HOBSON: So a lot of people think that the rule is that no building can be taller than the Capitol Dome, which is up on a hill, or no building can be taller than the Washington Monument. That is not the rule, right?
KEMPF: Absolutely, that’s actually a myth. In Washington, D.C., the 1910 Height of Buildings Act actually takes height from the width of the street on which a building is situated. So it’s an urban design principle. We also have a maximum cap of 130 in commercial areas, which is roughly…
HOBSON: 130 feet.
KEMPF: 130 feet. Excuse me, yeah, which is roughly 11 stories.
I agree with those who can’t figure out the Louisiana accents. New Orleans is not a Cajun accent. It’s not even southern. The friends/colleagues I’ve known from New Orleans speak with an accent that is undifferentiated from New York (Brookyn? Bronx? – I’m not from NY, so I’m not sure). But I guarantee a native New Yorker speaking with a native New Orleanser would be hard pressed to tell the difference.
But a few hundred miles in any direction will take you to extremes. In one direction, you’ll hear folks talking like Justin Wilson. Another direction, and it’s a Creole/Cajun mashhup than no Englishman or Frenchman can make out. A few hundred miles north and it’s an east Texas nasal twang that is nothing, NOTHING, like any part of Louisiana south of Bunkie.
And any show that depicts “y’all” as a singular (as in, addressing one person as “y’all”) just lets me know that person has never spent one second in the South.
It’s not “my city”, but after visiting Lake Mead a few years ago and subsequently playing Fallout: New Vegas, I noticed that the fictional version of the lake in the game displays neither the islands that have appeared in the lake due to falling water levels, nor the white discoloration of the rock surfaces that were previously submerged but are now above water. Apparently, global warming never happened in the Fallout-verse.
Wouldn’t the nuclear winter and subsequent 300 years of basically zero civilization reset climate change?
Well, you can’t put all of that carbon back in the ground.
Grew up in Seattle and then lived in NW NJ for many years.
In NJ everyone mentioned “80”, “287” or turnpike, never something generic.
I read a book set in Seattle and the scene mentioned the drenching rain accompanying a thunderstorm, and explained further that this was a typical occurrence in Seattle. It was a very good description of the type of rain one might have in NJ in summer. But this is rather rare in Seattle.
In the television series Alias they would add European signage to the American streets to make the location appear as the European city of choice. But they never changed the pavement markings. In the U.S. a yellow line is used to separate the traffic direction. Most of Europe uses white.
The Arizonans in Raising Arizona are depicted as being much more intelligent than we really are.
My brother told me he was never so happy to have a heater in his car as the day the temperature on Guam dropped to nesr 70. (Wiki says the record low for Guam is 65. Surprisingly, the record high is only 96; the record high for Hawaii is 98, and the record for Alaska is 100.)
I once flew from Albany to San Diego in the winter and was amazed to see the check-in staff at the San Diego hotel using heaters because the temperature was 65.
It was below zero when I left Albany. I keep my house at 64 in the winter.