if you happen to rent or buy the dvd they have a commentary and it goes right through each episode I have watched the whole first season but have only watched the commentary for the 1st episode ... it is quite interesting

Go to www.gridskipper.com, and in the search on the site box type:

Mad Men Guide

It shows a map guide and description of the places in Mad Men like Sterling Cooper, Don's house, PJ Clarke's, etc. Fun site. It ran Sept 2007.

Thanks for the www.gridskipper.com link. Great site. Hopefully they'll update it soon to include all of season one's locations (it currently says it's showing locations for the first nine episodes).

Another scene question: When Don and Betty meet for drinks on Valentine's Day in Episode One of Season Two it appears to be the Palm Court at The Plaza. Can anyone verify that?

PeggySue, I stumbled across that site by accident, but it was fun to see where everything was "located" or their guesses.

Having never been to NYC (my stepdad was born and raised in Brooklyn and left there in 1941), I wasn't able to go back with my parents who visited several times. Me - I'm a transplanted midwesterner raised in Seattle. Would like to get to New York some day.

Must have been wonderful and exciting to be there!

Where is the "Oak Room" (is that the name of the room with the huge Seurat mural)? The room where Cary Grant orders a drink in "North By Northwest" before he's kidnapped?

NYC is my "hometown" and so it just all seemed very "normal" while I was growing up. Just like children everywhere, one just thinks that what we know, is what is and question it.

The year+ a month that my husband and I were courting and then married, with Manhattan as the background/third character in our romance, was like something out of a big Technicolor movie and I thought so at the time; which is but a few years later than the current MM era. And yes, it really was exciting!

There's a in the Algonquin Hotel, in NYC, called the Oak room, but it wasn't in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. There's a mural there, but it's of the people who were known as THE ROUND TABLE. No Seurat there.

The Plaza's Oak Room is a bar; a fusty, men's club kinda place.

Neither of these places has a Seurat mural.

The biggest and best know Seurat painting, in America, is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte , which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago . Grant goes to Chicago, in the picture, but he goes to the Ambassador East hotel, but the restaurant there is called THE PUMP ROOM and isn't in the movie.

Could you be thinking of the nonSeurat huge mosaic in the UN?

Well now I don't know - am going to have to go back and watch "North By Northwest". I thought for sure the mural in the bar was Seurat's "Sunday in the Park" one (was going to say Sunday in the Park with George but wasn't that a Broadway musical with Bernadette Peterss?). I'm really confused now - will look at the movie.

Sounds like starting your romance and married life in Manhattan was wonderful. Never understood why my stepdad lwas so eager to leave New York (yet once being on the West Coast gobbled up anything and everything about NY). He left when he was 21, and on to DC, then LA, SF, and finally Seattle. So....you never know where life takes you.

PeggySue, I think you've got it with the Plaza's Oak Room. It was all wood, and in the scene, seemed like all businessmen.

Yes, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE was a Broadway musical which starred Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters.

I first saw Bernadette Peters in a musical satire ( DAMES AT SEA ) in a storefront theatre in the West Village ( that was the NICE part of Greenwich Village, back in 'just wanted "new" experiences.66, as opposed to the East Village, which was a slum, back then ), long before she was "known". They passed a hat at the end of the show; one didn't buy a ticket to enter and watch it. And yes, I enjoyed the show.

Maybe your stepfather just wanted "new" experiences. *shrugs*

Someone once told me that growing up in NYC is a disadvantage. WHY, you ask? Because that's where everyone goes to "make it"/see the BIG world and you're already there. Perhaps that's why he left.

For some ( and that includes me ), you can take the person out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the person. Yet that city that old New Yorkers, who no longer live there, pine for, is a city that no longer exists; it is the place that you once called "home".

Good...................I'm glad that I could be of some help. The Seurat mural threw me, but yes, the Oak Room Bar, in the Plaza, was all wood and leather and like a man's club.

Since the Plaza was sold/bought and redone, I have NO idea what it looks like now. It's only recently reopened and I have yet to go see what it's all like now.

Oh.............................and I personally know that that particular Seurat painting has been in the Art Institute of Chicago practically forever!

I knew that it wasn't in NBN, so your question threw me a bit.

No, you couldn't take the New Yorker out of my stepdad. I don't know if it's true of all New Yorkers (heck I dated one for 5 years), but he thought, walked, and talked fast. Just sharp.

When he and my mom went back to NYC, he hadn't been there in over 30 years. At heart, he was still the kid from Brooklyn who made his way out in the world.

I used to tease him - did he ever imagine that he, a sophisticated New York City boy, would end up with a midwestern farm girl from the Dakotas - he'd laugh.