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I think as already mentioned NYC, and LA to a lesser extent, could be listed for every decade (in LA's case starting in the 60's) and in NYC's going back to the beginning, whenever that is lol
Other than that it's nice to choose other cities not named these two.
1920 New York: Harlem renaissance, jazz age.
1930?
1940?
1950 LA: Hollywood gold age.
1960 Detroit: Motown....... San Fransico: counterculture.
1970 New York: early Punk and Hip hop
1980 Chicago: Alot of sitcoms .... Miami Vice, Vice city
1990 Atlanta: Olympics, Freaknik..... LA: west coast rap
2000 New York: 911 unfortunately, TRL
2010 Austin: tech
You can tell we associate the era partially related to our own upbringing and memories, not entirely based on pop culture.-although pop culture is very often the common thread that connects people together, or at least the collected memories (or in some cases, collected trauma.) of a society.
I associate 1990s with mostly Los Angeles. I see the argument of Chicago (Michael Jordan & Bulls.) but personally I never connected to any John Hughes movies (don’t forget some of his movies were based in or filmed in L.A such as Some Kind of Wonderful.) and Seattles, while I did listen to some Grunge (Smells Like Teen Spirit was our generation anthem for the younger Gen X.), never took off much in my memories. I spent all my school breaks and holidays in L.A with my parents so not only various ‘90s movies based in L.A (Speed, Falling Down, Pulp Fiction, Short Cuts movie by Robert Altman, The Player by Altman also, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart and Lost Highway. Barton Fink, Boyz n the Hood. Pretty Woman. Clueless, Father of the Bride……etc).
I remember what year I bought the cassettes of Paul McCartney solo album Flowers in the Dirt “ou est le soleil?” (Released in 1989 but i bought it in 1990.) and Michael Penn No Myth in the Warehouse in the mall that was used as Twin Pine Mall in Back to the Future (in Hacienda Heights called Puenta Hills Mall.). (i Magnin anyone? In Mid-Wilshire.) I would be sitting in the car passing my parents’ home in Beverly Hills then saw a sign “Maverick” which is Madonna’s record label at the time. I collected perfumes as a teenager, I would go to any mall or luxury boutiques like Robinson & May or Fred Segal or Ron Herman to buy Calvin Klein Obsession (Kate Moss ad.), Eternity (with Christy Turlington.) and then CK One. I can close my eyes now and still remember those smells. And the department stores gifted you a tote, a makeup bag, for the purchase of fragrances and makeup. I remember I had a black bucket shape Jil Sander from buying Jil Sander perfume.-it was so sturdy and stylish.
The L.A Riot. And then that June afternoon in 1994, the white Branco freeway chasing. My whole family happened to be in L.A we were all glued to the TV watching the broadcasting.
Years later I had a then-boyfriend who knew I was very, very into this case, took me to Bundy Drive, it was the eeriest experience.
You’re 100% correct but a lot of it was filmed in the soundstage in Sierra Madré in Los Angeles. Best of David Lynch’s work was mostly filmed in L.A and about L.A.
For this discussion, I'd focus more on movie settings than filming locations.
Perhaps I'm skewed as a Seattle resident, as we're the setting for movies all the time, but film little if any of most of them.
But when a production decides a setting, they're using is as part of their story. Doing that even when not in that location says something.
I should admit that Twin Peaks was set in a small town, which just happened to be in the Seattle metro (Snoqualmie).
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