>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:06:54 -0500, Joseph DeMartino wrote
(in article 
<43ef5951-48aa-4c67-b9d0-861a8152049f@g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>):
> On Feb 15, 7:03 pm, Blair Leatherwood 
> wrote:
> 
>> I have the same issue with The Mentalist and their grasp (or lack
>> thereof) of Northern California.- Hide quoted text -
> 
> "Silk Stalkings", supposedly set in Palm Beach, was one of the worst
> offenders in this regard.  The Town of Palm Beach is a tiny enclave at
> the north end of a very small island - a couple of miles long, less
> than a mile across in most places.  The only supermarket has valet
> parking and there are no poor sections of town.  (The poor people who
> work there - like me not too long ago - live on the mainland side of
> the bridges in places like West Palm Beach and Lake Worht.)
> 
> This whole part of the state is pooltable flat.  The highest point of
> elevation within 50 miles is about 30 feet high - a landfill in Ft.
> Lauderdale. Yet "Silk Stalkings" always had mountains in the
> background, winding hilly roads, and no shortage of run-down
> neighborhoods within the jurisdiction of the (surprisingly large) Palm
> Beach police department.  ("Criminal Minds" also featured a
> surprisingly hilly Palm Beach in one episode.) <<
In our house, as in so many others, M*A*S*H was a family tradition.  But my 
father ‹ who'd been in Korea ‹ used to laugh and point out how the California 
geography they showed didn't look anything like actual Korea.
Amy
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