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CREDITS
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Barry
Levinson, in glowingly nostalgic mode, charts the
fortunes of an immigrant family over several generations.
Filmed in his hometown of Baltimore (though the titular
district of 'Avalon' is fictional), there are numerous
cross-references to Levinson's
other films.
The terraced house that Aidan Quinn and Elizabeth Perkins
leave for ëthe suburbsí is 3107
Cliftmont Avenue off Erdman Avenue, west
of Cliftmont Park – the same house into which Danny
De Vito and Barbara
Hershey move in Levinson's
Tin Men.
The house they move to is Levinson's
real-life childhood home in Forest
Park, west of the city centre, also seen
in Tin Men. And
young Elijah Wood
sees the diner from Levinson's
film being lowered onto a vacant
lot (the diner itself currently stands at 400
East Saratoga Street at Holliday Street,
downtown).
The forties street scenes were filmed on Appleton
Street, running south from North Avenue,
south of Druid Hill Park in southwest Baltimore.
Kirk and Kayeís television store is actually a bookstore
– the 19th
Century Bookshop, 1047 Hollins Street at Union Square.
The discount warehouse the business moves to, which
subsequently burns down, is at Fells Point on the north
west branch of the Patapsco River.
When the summer gets too stifling, the family sleeps
out by Druid Lake
in Druid Hill Park,
and just south of the park, at the corner of Mason
Street and Linden Avenue stands the house
where the family circle meetings are held.
The rundown cinema where Wood
watches King of the Rocket
Men, and where the streetcar ploughs into
Perkinsí car, is the Senator,
5904 York Road (tel: 410.235.4800), way north
of the city centre toward Anneslie at Belvedere Avenue.
And the good news is – itís no longer rundown but
an 800-seat, big-screen, art deco gem, a mini-Graumanís
with signatures of local luminaries including John
Waters and Ed
Norton.
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