Scene Location Question
Is anyone aware of a list of scene locations for Mad Men? I'd love to know more about the history of the various restaurants, bars and clubs shown in the show. Thanks.
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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?
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.
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.
Thanks to all for your input. Once a year a group of friends of mine here in NYC get dressed up and go on a pub crawl of the upscale bars/lounges around Central Park and midtown.
So I love seeing the classic NYC scene locations in Mad Men.
Over the years we've been to the King Cole Bar in St. Regis, Bemelman's Bar in the Carlyle, The Pierre, The Four Season's, The Boathouse in Central Park, Campbell Apartment in Grand Central, Rooftop Bar at The Peninsula, Oak Room at the Plaza (very disappointing several years ago, but I'm hearing they did a nice job renovating The Plaza - so we'll give the Oak Room another shot this year) plus several others.
This year I'll definitely add the Roosevelt Hotel (Sal Romano's gay date for drinks and dinner) to the itinerary.
Thanks again to all who responded to my original post.