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From: ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman)
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Subject: In what city is Hill Street?
Message-ID: <2522@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 17:32:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 17:32:27 1985
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  I have read several postings recently about the true location of the city
portrayed in "Hill Street Blues."  I would like to add my knowledge to the
discussion.
  First and foremost, HSB is set in A FICTIONAL CITY.  There can be no
argument on this; the creators of the show have said so (to TV Guide, among
others -- I read it regularly).
  Now, as to its ostensible settings:
    Its opening was filmed in San Francisco.
    Its exteriors are shot in and around Los Angeles.
    It is supposed to be Chicago (or, at least, a Chicago-like city, whatever
	that is).
    Its street names, more often than not, are from Buffalo.  If you noticed
	my "byline" on the header, you'll see I'm from the Buffalo area.  In
	a recent issue of "Buffalo Magazine", a part of the Sunday Buffalo
	News, there was an article on Buffalonians in Hollywood.  They include
	Anthony Yerkovich, one of the original creators/producers of HSB,
	and David Milch, the show's primary writer and (I believe) now a
	producer.  It was Milch who decided to make the streets be from
	Buffalo.  Thus, for those of us in the know, references to Utica,
	Delaware Park (where, in the show, location shooting for some
	dopey cop movie was to take place, using gang members as extras --
	this was in the 2nd or 3rd season), Elmwood Avenue and so on are
	amusing perks for watching the show.
  So, let's have no more arguments about it, okay?


"Well, I was at home, threat'nin' deh kids, when I looks out t'rough deh hole
in deh wall, an' up pulls dis tank, an' out gets one o' Dinsdale's boys.  So
'e chains me to deh back o' deh tank, an' takes me for a scrape, 'round to
Dinsdale's place.  And Dinsdale's dere, in deh conversation pit, wit' Doug,
an' Charles Paisley, de Baby Crusher, an' two film producers, an' a man dey
called Kierkegaard, who jus' sat dere, bitin' de 'eads off whippets.  An'
Dinsdale jus' says to me, 'I hear you been a naughty boy, Clement.'  An'
'e splits me nostrils open, an' saws me leg off, an' pulls me liver out.
Well, I say my name's not Clement, an' den, 'e loses 'is temper, an' nails
me 'ead to deh floor."