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Thankfully, we still have DVD sets and, moreover, incredible LIFE magazine photos of the real "Mad Men" to keep the show's legacy alive. In the late 1950s, the real Mad Men did indeed rule New York's Madison Avenue. In 1958, LIFE stepped inside this world in order to separate fact from fiction. Whether the following was an accurate portrayal or ...
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Andrew Cracknell, author of The Real Mad Men: The Renegades of Madison Avenue and the Golden Age of Advertising, also thought the show lacked authenticity, stating, "One thing of which they all are all equally contemptuous", in regards to the industry's elite, "is the output of Sterling Cooper. But then they have every right.
- Lax Terminal 4
- La Crescenta Motel
- Rod’s Grill
- Sweeney Todd’s Barber Shop
- The Music Center Mark Taper Forum and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- The Dresden Restaurant and Lounge
- Bob’s Big Boy Broiler
- Burger Chef
- Los Angeles Theatre
- Clifton’s Republic
Draper travels through LAX during the first episode of Season 7, while “I’m a Man” by the Spencer Davis Group plays in the background. LAX planned a significant jet-age modernization in 1961, resulting in stunning tile mosaics along the walls of five tunnels. The concept for the murals, designed by Janet Bennet and Charles D. Kratka, was to mimic t...
In season 7, Draper stays at La Crescenta Motel after his car breaks down in Fairview, Oklahoma. Glen Hine opened this quaint L-shaped structure in California in 1946, and the dazzling neon sign still shines for blocks along Foothill Boulevard. This motel was also a filming location for several other TV shows, including The X-Files, Beverly Hills 9...
Rod’s Grillin Arcadia has been a delightful destination along Route 66 since it opened its doors in 1946. If you visit today, there’s a good chance that Julie, the diner’s longest-standing employee of 31 years, will greet you with a smile. In season 5, Draper insists his wife Megan try the orange sherbet while they sit in a turquoise booth under th...
A staple on Hollywood Boulevard since 1947, Sweeney Todd’s Barber Shop provides classic straight-razor shaves. The Mad Mencrew didn’t have to redecorate much before Draper got his haircut since the shop maintains its traditional decor, from a cigarette vending machine to a rack of pulp fiction paperbacks. Celebrities and stylish Angelenos frequent ...
Draper and his first wife, Betty, had their romantic “Rome” rendezvous in a season 3 episode in front of the Mark Taper Forum at the Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles. In 1967, architect Welton D. Becket and sculptor Jacques Overhoff built this gorgeous drum-like structure across the way from the 1962 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, which doubled as ...
The Dresden Restaurant and Lounge’s dim lighting and leather booths embossed with “DR” set the scene in a season 7 episode, when Draper and Megan meet with her Hollywood talent agent. Little has changed since 1954 inside this classic family-owned Hollywood lounge and restaurant. Patrons still sit next to faux rock walls and sip Blood & Sands, the r...
In season 4, Draper and Megan—and Draper’s kids, Sally and Bobby—have lunch in a booth at Bob’s Big Boy Broiler. When its doors opened in 1958, the drive-in, then known as Harvey’s Broiler, became a hot spot for cruising car culture. Architect Paul B. Clayton’s design is a glowing example of Googie architecture, with a 65-foot-long boomerang-shaped...
Peggy Olson and Annabelle Mathis are standing outside Burger Chef, surveying customers as they leave in the season 7 episode “The Strategy.” When the Burger Chef chain was started in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1954, by Frank and Donald Thomas, it was the first fast-food establishment to market a burger, fries, and drink combo. Today, this former Ria...
In a season 1 episode, Draper and Betty go to the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City to see the musical Fiorello! The scene was filmed at the Los Angeles Theatre, commissioned by H. L. Gumbiner in 1930. Architects S. Charles Lee and S. Tilden Norton finished the building, which includes a magnificent interior fountain, in a mere 6 months. Charlie ...
Draper and Sal Romano have dinner in Baltimore with two flight attendants in season 3; in reality, the playful dinner conversation took place on the original second floor of Clifton’s Brookdale Cafeteria before its recent renovation. Once the area’s largest cafeteria chain, this 50,000-square-foot wooded wonderland is the last Clifton’s in existenc...
Jul 15, 2010 · Mad Men, AMC's critically acclaimed drama about the advertising men who ruled Madison Avenue in the 1960s (and the women who worked and lived with them), is coming back for its fourth season on ...
Apr 10, 2014 · On Madison Avenue, the Word on ‘Mad Men’. John Slattery, left, Jon Hamm and Joel Murray in a “Mad Men” episode. The series is starting its final season, over two years. Carin Baer/AMC ...
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Of course, her role on Mad Men much more than homemaker, these complexities make the show what it is. In the show’s first three seasons the offices of Sterling Cooper were located between 47th and 48th streets at 405 Madison Avenue, right in the heart of the advertising district. This is just a few short blocks from the Roosevelt Hotel (where ...
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Jul 19, 2017 · July 19, 2017. Rob Sheffield on 'Mad Men' at 10: How Matthew Weiner's Madison Ave TV drama still feels timeless and totally unique a decade after its debut. AMC. “What you call love was invented ...
