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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: In what city is Hill Street?
Message-ID: <432@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 14:39:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 14:39:57 1985
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In article <2006@bmcg.UUCP> bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) writes:
>> 
>>   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.
>
>Sorry, but in the opening scenes the cop car drives past a bar which
>advertises ' Old Style' beer. They don't, to the best of my knowledge,
>sell that Midwest beer in Frisco.
>
>sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn


I read in a Pittsburgh paper that it was 'modeled' after Pittsburgh.
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