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TVFactFan · 10-23-2008, 06:28 PM

[QUOTE=ThomasE]

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Originally Posted by ChristinaV

I tried doing a search but came up with no results. "Crenshaw" could have been a fictitous street?

I want to hop on a bus from Harlem and take it into Tuckahoe just for fun.

What is the name of that Bridge in the Opening Credits?

ThomasE · 10-24-2008, 01:30 AM

Solomander, I tried but sadly that bridge in the opening is G.W. I have been on that bridge a few times myself. I pulled up pics of the Tappan Zee bridge (the one that actually takes you to the suburbs) and hoped that was it but alas it wasn't. G.W. takes you into New Jersey. Error! Major error in the opening!

TVFactFan · 10-24-2008, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ThomasE

Solomander, I tried but sadly that bridge in the opening is G.W. I have been on that bridge a few times myself. I pulled up pics of the Tappan Zee bridge (the one that actually takes you to the suburbs) and hoped that was it but alas it wasn't. G.W. takes you into New Jersey. Error! Major error in the opening!

Major Error-lol I been on the GW bridge myself when going back and forth from Connecticut

ThomasE · 10-24-2008, 02:31 AM

I hate when people pull mess like that. If it was Tappan Zee, then I could understand or simply taking the westside highway (9A) all the way up.

TVFactFan · 10-24-2008, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ThomasE

I hate when people pull mess like that. If it was Tappan Zee, then I could understand or simply taking the westside highway (9A) all the way up.

Sounds like Maude should have based in NYC-lol

ThomasE · 10-24-2008, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by PhillySportsHater

Sounds like Maude should have based in NYC-lol

Only you, Solomon. Only you.

TVFactFan · 10-24-2008, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ThomasE

Only you, Solomon. Only you.

Especially since the Empire State Building is the first thing you see as soon as the opening starts-lol

ChristinaV · 10-27-2008, 04:16 AM

Well, is there some other reason they might have used this bridge in the opening. Is it more picturesque than the Tappan Zee, perhaps.

I guess they assumed that most of the viewers wouldn't know any better.

ThomasE · 10-27-2008, 11:26 PM

I hear ya ChristineV but I would not have used that. In today's time that would not fly. Back then, they could get away with it but that is truly false. I actually drove the route yesterday via (9A) . I took 9A north just like the car was doing in the opening. I saw the bridge from afar like the car in the opening did. The only difference was that I passed by the bridge and did get on it. I did not drive through Tuckahoe though but went to Yonkers instead. You can take (9A) all the way to go to the town.

jimmo · 05-20-2016, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Pus$y Galore

I think Maude started just before the WTC was built, so outside of Lady Liberty, people always associate the Empire State Bldg. with NYC - and as he said, that gives more of the idea of heading to the 'burbs with the bridges. I don't think she was that far out of the city though - not like Westchester or anything like that - they weren't that well off.

Actually, "Maude Findlay" lived exactly in Westchester County, as the village of Tuckahoe is in the town of Eastchester, New York, which is located in Westchester County.

And Westchester County is only about a 35-45 minutes drive from Manhattan, depending upon traffic. I looked it up online, and there is even a commuter train stop in Eastchester.

And as far as "well-off" goes, the "Findlays" certainly were "well-off," if they could afford to have a maid (first "Florida Evans," then "Mrs. Nell Naugatuck," then "Victoria Butterfield").

I seem to recall the "Findlay" home was owned by "Maude" before she married "Walter Findlay," as "Maude Chadbourne" (maiden name) had been married four times, first to "Barney" (from whom "Maude" was widowed), then to "Chester" (from whom "Maude" was divorced), then to "Albert Hilliard" (who died and left "Maude" a second-time widow), and finally to "Walter." If "Maude" had inherited her "Tuckahoe" home, from either of her two husbands who died or her second husband in a divorce, chances are the mortgage was paid down substantially by then or even paid off by the time "Maude" and "Walter" married in 1968. In any case, with "Walter" having owned his own retail store, "Findlay's Friendly Appliances," chances are the "Findlays" were upper-middle class, very typical of residents in Westchester County.

Remember, too, "Rob and Laura Petrie:" of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" also lived in Westchester County, in the town of New Rochelle, NY, based on the reality of a younger television writer named Carl Reiner having lived in New Rochelle while writing for Sid Caesar in NBC-TV's "Your Show of Shows" in the early-to-mid 1950s

Jack77 · 12-08-2017, 04:32 AM

For everyone on this thread who keeps stating that is the Empire State Building in the opening shot. You are WRONG!
It is the Chrysler Building!!
So stop referring to it as the ESB!
Thank you...

10-24-2008, 01:30 AM	#17
ThomasE Member Moderator Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 04, 2000 Location: New York, New York, U.S.A. Posts: 10,857	Solomander, I tried but sadly that bridge in the opening is G.W. I have been on that bridge a few times myself. I pulled up pics of the Tappan Zee bridge (the one that actually takes you to the suburbs) and hoped that was it but alas it wasn't. G.W. takes you into New Jersey. Error! Major error in the opening!
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12-08-2017, 04:32 AM	#26
Jack77 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 339	IT'S THE CHRYSLER BUILDING! For everyone on this thread who keeps stating that is the Empire State Building in the opening shot. You are WRONG! It is the Chrysler Building!! So stop referring to it as the ESB! Thank you...

10-24-2008, 02:31 AM	#19
ThomasE Member Moderator Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 04, 2000 Location: New York, New York, U.S.A. Posts: 10,857	I hate when people pull mess like that. If it was Tappan Zee, then I could understand or simply taking the westside highway (9A) all the way up.

10-27-2008, 04:16 AM	#23
ChristinaV Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Apr 20, 2007 Location: TX Posts: 22	Well, is there some other reason they might have used this bridge in the opening. Is it more picturesque than the Tappan Zee, perhaps. I guess they assumed that most of the viewers wouldn't know any better.

10-27-2008, 11:26 PM	#24
ThomasE Member Moderator Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 04, 2000 Location: New York, New York, U.S.A. Posts: 10,857	I hear ya ChristineV but I would not have used that. In today's time that would not fly. Back then, they could get away with it but that is truly false. I actually drove the route yesterday via (9A) . I took 9A north just like the car was doing in the opening. I saw the bridge from afar like the car in the opening did. The only difference was that I passed by the bridge and did get on it. I did not drive through Tuckahoe though but went to Yonkers instead. You can take (9A) all the way to go to the town.