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From: waltt@shark.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
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Subject: RE: RE: Where is HSB
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 18:08:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 18:08:16 1984
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Just to clarify myself (I'll admit some of these reasons might be a little
sketchy) and to give you my reasoning:

  The camera pan shows a fairly large, fairly old, industrialized city.  
Most of the building are low profile, with no major skyline (in that
particular pan), but with some smokestacks.  Other hints in the show, 
such as the high heat and high humidity in the summer, and a little 
snow in the winter (I'll come back to this later) seem to indicate a 
city in the Northeast United States.  Also, definately the inner city of 
a major metropolitan area.

  I ruled out New York for a couple of reasons.  One, obviously not Manhatten
because of the absence of tall buildings (check out the camera pan at the
beginning).  That would mean Queens or Brooklyn.  There is a suspicious 
absence of a New York (read Brooklyn) accent.  Not once have I heard 
subways mentioned :-).  I'm not too familiar with New Jersey, so I can't
entirely rule that out.

  I ruled out Boston because in the show, the city they are in gets too 
hot in the summer and not cold enough in the winter (ever see any more 
than a few inches of snow covering the ground in any episode?).  Also, 
again no accent.  

  I've only been to the monument area of Washington, DC (and Arlington), so 
it could be some industrialized area (say the SE quadant -- at least the 
railroad tracks are in the right place) that I''m not familiar with.  The
climate would fit -- hot summers and mild, wet winters (some snow but not
too much).  Also, the people don't have funny accents :-).  But, in the
opening shot, the river is in the wrong place.

  If you look around the cities I've mentioned, Norfolk and Richmond, Va 
are too small and too far south.  Definately not a Canadian city.  
Pittsburg, Buffalo, and anything else I can think of is too small.
   
   Now, for Philadelphia.  In the opening shot, the river looks right.
The climate is right.  People don't have New England or Brooklyn accents.  
They use trains and not subways (wasn't that Amtrak at the beginning?). And,
even though I've only been there once (and only for a day), it *looks*
like Philidelphia.	

                             -- Walt

P.S. -- Some of my reasoning could be faulty.  I've only been to the 
Northeast US once.