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‘Mad Men’ Mapped: A Guide to NYC Hot Spots Frequented by Our Favorite Characters
Monday, June 04, 2012
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and Sylvia Rosen (Linda Cardellini) in Episode 3 of AMC's 'Mad Men'
(Michael Yarish/AMC)
Keens Steakhouse, Sing Sing Prison and the Empire State Building are just a few of the dozens of references made to 1960s New York in the AMC television series "Mad Men."
We're asking listeners to help build out our map of favorite city spots mentioned throughout the five seasons of the show.
Check out the map below and then send an email to madmenmap@wnyc.org with a New York neighborhood, building or spot you've heard a character mention or you've seen in an episode. Please include as much information as possible, even the episode if you remember it.
SPOILER ALERT: Looking at this map will reveal plot twists and turns in the series.
A special thanks to the listener who directed us to this cool map made by the Curbed LA data team depicting California spots where Mad Men was shot.
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Comments [23]
The fictional apartment house that Peggy looked at in Season 6, Episode 5 on East 84th Street between 1st Avenue and York Avenue seems similar to the Claiborne House on that block. While it probably wasn't really a co-op back then, it was built in the early '60s and most probably would have had the parquet floor pictured in the show. The link has more information and some great old photos of Yorkville in the 1960s/1970s or earlier.
http://gothamist.com/2013/04/29/real_estate_1968.php
How about drinks at the bar "PJ Clarke" on 55th street and third ave?
This place is still there, and rockin and rollin.....
In the first episode of Season 5, there is a civil rights demonstration near 285 Madison Avenue, the home then (and now) of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency. This was based on a real episode on May 27, 1966, when someone, presumably from Y & R, threw water down on the demonstrators.
285 Madison Avenue is between East 40th and East 41st Streets.
Thanks for reposting- Hal, that comment was the best of all!
Pete's famous maternal relatives are the Dyckmans, not the Dykemans!
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Great map! But they've forgotten a favorite shooting spot of mine-- the LIRR Station in Douglaston, Queens, shot in the pilot, meant to depict the Ossining Metro North station.
What's up to every one, it's genuinely a pleasant for me to
go to see this site, it includes useful Information.
Didn't Don and Joan have their post-Jaguar flirtation at the Bull & Bear? I don't see that here ...
The restaurants in the upper floors of the Time Life Building.
Roger Sterling meets with Ken Cosgrove to discuss how SCDP will go after Ken's father in law.
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Life_Building
Located atop the building on the 48th floor was The Hemisphere Club, a members-only restaurant during the day, which opened to the public in the evenings as the Tower Suite. The restaurant was operated by Joseph Baum's Restaurant Associates, who also operated The Four Seasons Restaurant, La Fonda del Sol, The Rainbow Room, The Forum of the Twelve Caesars and later Windows on the World. The Hemisphere Club closed some time after 1991.
Every episode of the show has been filmed in Los Angeles except for one.
Only he pilot was filmed in New York City. So yeah, last week's scene at the Museum of Natural History? Filmed at the one in LA.
- via Buzzfeed
Thanks all! I've added all your references. Please keep them coming!
Lutherville Maryland, north of Baltimore. Mad Men is really about Baltimore
In the Season Two episode "Three Sundays"; Peggy Olson and her family attended Mass at Holy Innocents Catholic Church (279 East 17th Street, Brooklyn).
Peggy has always claimed to be from the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, but Holy Innocents is in Prospect Park South. Maybe her mother and sister followed the Monsignor who is now the pastor at Holy Innocents from their former church?
When Peggy was living in her own apartment in Brooklyn, she told Bobbie Barrett that she's within two blocks of the BMT line running along 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge. Maybe the old family parish was St. Patrick's (Brooklyn), at 9511 4th Avenue?
Google says Joan's Greenwich Village apartment (42 W 12th) is owned by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
Check it.
you left out Butterfield Market @ 1114 Lex. where they seem to shop for sustenance.
Dr. Faye told the taxi to take her to 72nd & Broadway.
If you want to see where they film all the New York sites, go to Broadway Bar, Golden Gopher and Cole's in Downtown Los Angeles.
Actually, back in the day of Mad Men, it was "Keen's Chophouse," not Keens Steakhouse. Specialty was mutton chops, as it still is.
There a reference in Season 1 to Idlewild Airport the original name of JFK.
Don't forget to map out the hot spots the Mad Men will frequent in 30 years; AA meetings, divorce court, lung cancer ward at Mt. Sinai, Intro to Internet Graphics class at the Learning Annex, etc.
Last night's Museum of Natural History - Catcher in the Rye style! Loved all the Catcher in the Rye references in this ep. http://wp.me/p1xVI5-12C
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