Your Hometown

[Scar]

This is what I am talking about. Smaller towns that other than people who live nearby have never heard of, but were mentioned in movies.

So Princeton doesn't count even though it has less than half the population of Vineland?

Stupid university.

[NJGIRL]

So Princeton doesn't count even though it has less than half the population of Vineland?

Stupid university.

Haha...I don't think there are many people who haven't heard of Princeton.......I was looking for places that people who do not live by them, don't know about.

Not many people outside of NJ have ever heard of Vineland. Vineland's population really isn't that big compared to the area it includes. Vineland is the biggest city in NJ, as far as area...that's what makes the population seem big.

[MNNHFLTX]

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota (well, not so little anymore) called Elk River (or Elk Snout, as my husband likes to call it!) Elk River was mentioned in The Silence of the Lambs, but they were referring to a river in West Virginia, not the one that my hometown is named for.

I'm actually kind of surprised there were never any films shot in Elk River, at least that I know of. It's a very picturesque place on the bluffs above the Mississippi.

[MNNHFLTX]

Stop the presses--I did a little extra research and found out that Elk River, Minnesota was mentioned as a place that Sam and Dean visited on Supernatural. That's even cooler than a movie! It was in season four in When the Levee Breaks. I must have missed that episode but I will be sure to watch it now!

[NJGIRL]

Stop the presses--I did a little extra research and found out that Elk River, Minnesota was mentioned as a place that Sam and Dean visited on Supernatural. That's even cooler than a movie! It was in season four in When the Levee Breaks. I must have missed that episode but I will be sure to watch it now!

So cool! I watch that show almost every day and come to think of it, they always are traveling to small towns in their quest to rid the world of evil.

[tinkwest]

During 10 of the most important years of my growing up (12-22) our family lived just outside of Auburn, CA. We didn't live in town, but that was our mailing address. The place is a LOT bigger now, but when we were there I would consider it a small town.

I have never heard it mentioned in a movie or TV show but I know there have been things filmed in the area. Mostly for picturesque background, so you would never know it. But one movie I remember where Old Town Auburn was very recognizable was Phenomenon with John Travolta.

[BriarRose0708]

Yep! If anyone has read Water for Elephants, the main character's hometown and mine are the same! Norwich, NY. He mentions going home to Norwich by train early in the novel.

[NJGIRL]

Yep! If anyone has read Water for Elephants, the main character's hometown and mine are the same! Norwich, NY. He mentions going home to Norwich by train early in the novel.

Cool, I wonder if the author was from Norwich.

[BriarRose0708]

Cool, I wonder if the author was from Norwich.

Nope, she's Canadian! I always wondered how she picked my small insignificant town. For the time period of the novel I guess Norwich was a very bustling town from the turn of the century through the 30's and 40's due to business coming down the Erie Canal. So maybe she just came across it in her research or something since the character Jacob was attending vet school at Cornell (where my current home is located) and Norwich is about an hour and a half's drive away.

[NJGIRL]

Nope, she's Canadian! I always wondered how she picked my small insignificant town. For the time period of the novel I guess Norwich was a very bustling town from the turn of the century through the 30's and 40's due to business coming down the Erie Canal. So maybe she just came across it in her research or something since the character Jacob was attending vet school at Cornell (where my current home is located) and Norwich is about an hour and a half's drive away.

That is so interesting.

[sportsguy2315]

My hometown has been mentioned twice to my knowledge:

• I don't watch it, but Dr. Cristina Yang works at the Mayo Clinic in Grey's Anatomy. The girls I knew in HS who do watch it did take a certain amount of pride that the town did make it in the show.
• Not "fictional", but my town made the Bon Jovi music video "Wanted Dead or Alive".

[MNNHFLTX]

My hometown has been mentioned twice to my knowledge:

• I don't watch it, but Dr. Cristina Yang works at the Mayo Clinic in Grey's Anatomy. The girls I knew in HS who do watch it did take a certain amount of pride that the town did make it in the show.
• Not "fictional", but my town made the Bon Jovi music video "Wanted Dead or Alive".

You're from Rochester? My sister works as a Diabetic Educator at the Mayo there. I have to think that Rochester has been mentioned at least a few movies because of the Clinic.

[sportsguy2315]

You're from Rochester? My sister works as a Diabetic Educator at the Mayo there. I have to think that Rochester has been mentioned at least a few movies because of the Clinic.

I grew up there, went to college in Mankato and now live in Fulda (About an hour northeast of Sioux Falls). Both my parents currently work for Mayo and they have a visitor's center where part of it is dedicated to Mayo's pop culture references including a non-Mayo endorsed "Mayo Clinic Diet". How could I forget about Airplane!? That has several Mayo references as well.

[Arielfan98]

Not my hometown, but where I go to school. In an episode of Glee a character made a fake ID for another character who was from Pleasantville, NY where I attend school and it was awesome.

[NJGIRL]

My hometown has been mentioned twice to my knowledge:
[*]Not "fictional", but my town made the Bon Jovi music video "Wanted Dead or Alive".[/LIST]

So cool...what scene?

[c&d]

Staten Island the movie, can I also count all the mentions of the Staten Island ferry in movies?

[sportsguy2315]

So cool...what scene?

There's a crowd shot looking outside to a crowd about 30 seconds in, and at 3:00 there's another crowd shot this time with some peeks at the skyline outside. There is some backstage footage that I'm pretty sure was filmed there too, but I can't 100% confirm it.

[Tink1]

I grew up in Dunmore - never mentioned in a movie that I know of.

My first house was in Scranton- LOTS of references. The Office, That Championship Season, Kingpin, and it is where Ross (Friends) was trying to get his monkey into a zoo. A song by Harry Chapin - "30,000 lbs. of Bananas" And Archie Bunker had cousins here.


Now I live in Forest City. The only reference I know of is from "The Bear who slept through Christmas". In the train station they announce that the train is going to Forest City.

Nanc

[kakn7294]

The movie Gung Ho with Michael Keaton was filmed in my current hometown of Beaver, PA - the gazebo that the production crew built for the show still stands in the park and is where my daughter's prom pics were taken. Chef Gordon Ramsey was in town last year to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmare in a local restaurant. While not exactly in my neighborhood, nearby, the movie One for the Money based on the book by Janet Evanovich with Katherine Heigle was filmed in Ambridge, PA. There were several movies filmed in West Aliquippa, PA where DH grew up (also the home of Henry Mancini).

[PopPhan]

The movie Gung Ho with Michael Keaton was filmed in my current hometown of Beaver, PA - the gazebo that the production crew built for the show still stands in the park and is where my daughter's prom pics were taken. Chef Gordon Ramsey was in town last year to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmare in a local restaurant. While not exactly in my neighborhood, nearby, the movie One for the Money based on the book by Janet Evanovich with Katherine Heigle was filmed in Ambridge, PA. There were several movies filmed in West Aliquippa, PA where DH grew up (also the home of Henry Mancini).

That park is across from my sister's apartment in Beaver!! She lives upstairs from Levanti's (featured on the 2013 premiere episode of Kitchen Nightmares!! LOL) and has her own little business called K & T's Confections (candy, cakes, cookies, etc.)

About my own home town - York, PA....I know things were filmed in the area, but the only movie that I know mentions it is "1776" -- as the Articles of Confederation were written here.

Harrisburg had been featured on ABC TV for years as the opening scenes for "All My Children" as the fictional Llanview; Lititz, PA has been mentioned on Castle; "Witness" was filmed in Lancaster County and has a few local town mentioned.