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Originally Posted by elemenoP
I get a big kick out of books set in my neighborhood, especially if they name-check places that I know. I'm a big geek like that. And I get an even bigger kick when I recognize places in movies and TV shows. The show "The Americans" is set in the suburbs of DC but shot in Brooklyn. When they need a remote, in-the-woods setting, they shoot in Prospect Park (Brooklyn's Central Park), which I know very well. There was a scene that was supposed to take place in Italy and they used the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as a stand-in.
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I grew up in middle Tennessee. A few years ago, my family saw this version of The Jungle Book:
http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110213/ (not the animated version from the 60's). Several of the jungle scenes in this move were set in Fall Creek Falls state park, where we used to go camping every summer when I was a kid.