NOTE: I had to edit this to remove the video window. Evidently CBS is simply too aggressively in launching its videos.
Celeste Ng uses Shaker Heights as the backdrop for her story, and you gets some good views of the city in the CBS interview that aired Sunday morning.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/little-fires-everywhere-writer-celeste-ng/
But the HULU Miniseries wasn't filmed in Shaker Heights because of a protest by Reese Witherspoon over medical rights for women in Ohio. And that was the right thing to do.
I haven't seen or read it (yet). I do know part takes part on Winslow Rd and Parkland. My father grew up on the latter (right on Green Lake) and my parent's first house was on Winslow. It seems a little close.
ReplyDeleteVan Aken Blvd, aka South Moreland Blvd to the Van's is the great divider. All the homes south of Van Aken were designated "Lower Shaker" when the plans were first made, and the homes are moderately priced, and duplexes. North of Van Aken was Upper Shaker, more expensive. The great uniter was the Van Aken Rapid - traveling downtown to work and jobs, through which, theoretically, the lower Shaker people would be able to ascend upward. And then there was the Shaker Blvd Line, below which was Upper Shaker, and north of that (to Fairmount to the Cleveland Heights part of Fairmount and west to Warrenville (in the 1920s) were the estates along North and South Park, where the big money was. There was a method to their planning. And remember, Winslow Road, and Lynnfield Road, between Van Aken to Lomond was, in the 1920s and 1930s, was referred to "Honeymoon Roads" because newlyweds rented the duplexes as a toe hold into the community.
DeleteI had no idea about the "Honeymoon Roads" designation. My parents never mentioned that. But it was the 50s by that time. The rest, as you might assume, I did know.
DeleteAnother movie that supposedly took place in Shaker Heights was filmed in California, and all the street names were Spanish.
ReplyDeleteThe Battle of Shaker Heights, the bane of historians looking for stuff online about the community. It was a Project Greenlight film (funded in part by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) only uses the Shaker Heights name. The there was a Donna Reed TV Movie called The Best Place to Be, based on a book. The book was written by someone who had a connection to Shaker. The movie, once again, used California locations.
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