...and Will, a reader in Savannah, sends in the following. He writes, "1970s NYC, recreated next to Paula Deen's downtown restaurant. All cringing from that aside, I would say this looks pretty cool!"
Before we know it, the real New York will be a Synechdoche New York, existing only on sound stages and recreations in other cities. What will remain in the real New York? As our vanished culture reappears across middle America, middle America sets up camp in the city--pieces of Brooklyn become Nantucket, the Village turns into Wisconsin. With the suburbanized city looking more like Anywhere, USA, we'll have to leave the city to get a glimpse of New York.
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Just move to Vegas. If you get tired of their New York, you can just mosey on over to Paris or Venice or Egypt or Ancient Greece (you can even get Marc Jacobs there!) or Treasure Island.
posted this comment in EV Grieve before, but one can feel the '90s vibe of NYC in the New York New York themed hotel in Las Vegas, and oddly enough has more character than the NYC of today, and that's what's depressing. Perhaps this CBGB in Savannah will have that same saudade feel of the edgy Bowery, which is still and would be more depressing.
I've got a number of pics of the public locations here: http://www.billdawers.com/2012/06/30/facebook-and-twitter-photos-of-the-filming-of-cbgb-in-savannah/
Ironically, there's a hole-in-the-wall club right across the street called The Jinx (The Velvet Elvis back in the 90s) that programs lots of country, Americana, metal . . .
The sidewalk looks unusually narrow.
Oooof.
The "real New York" never existed except in the mind.
i just milked a cow on Bleecker. Then it died after eating a tourist's cupcake.
Midwesterners who come to New York to live the SATC New York is a mental state of mind.
Building looks like a reasonable facsimile.
That sidewalk is movie set, way to new looking where are the cracks, cigarettes and dogshit and oh yeah people.
Old New york getting the wild west movie treatment.The punks play the Indians. We all know how that turned out.
This whole city is practically a sound stage and tv/movie set.
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