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{{quote|Attention, guys. We're just two little city gals from Lawndale.|Quinn, "[[Speedtrapped]]"}}
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'''Lawndale''' is the suburb in which the events of the ''Daria'' TV series take place. Maps of the region may be found in ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'' ("Welcome to Lawndale") and online at MTV's Virtual Lawndale webpage (see "External Links").
For a small and apparently dull suburb, Lawndale boasts its own
Lawndale dates back to colonial times: a newspaper article seen briefly in "[[See Jane Run]]" mentions roadworks on North Avenue found that "the street lies over a pre-revolutionary Dutch Orthodox cemetery" (presumably meaning Dutch followers of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Orthodox_Churches orthodox church], not the name of the sect).
The not-known-for sure city of which Lawndale is a suburb is only actually seen once in the series. Lawndale lacks tall buildings, but in [[Is It College Yet?]] when Mack goes to visit [[Andrew Landon|Jodie's father]], there are tall buildings seen out of the very high window of Mr. Landon's office. This location must be close to Lawndale because Mack came by to visit him before school.
==Location==
[[Image:Lawndalescity.jpg|thumb|right|The city of which Lawndale is a suburb, as seen from [[Andrew Landon]]'s office.]]
The location of Lawndale is endlessly debated, and even [[Glenn Eichler]] wouldn't commit to an answer beyond the mid-Atlantic states:
<blockquote style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I thought the Morgendorffers lived in a mid-Atlantic suburb, outside somewhere like Baltimore or Washington, DC. They could have lived in Pennsylvania near the Main Line, though.<br/><br/><i>(Source: [http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glenninterviewsfull.html Interview at DVDaria.info])</i></blockquote>
while director [[Guy Moore]] thought it was New Jersey.
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* Daria went to [[Camp Grizzly]] when she was a child in [[Highland]], and it was a few hours away when she was in Lawndale. Highland is canonically in Texas, a long way away from the mid-Atlantic. Yeah, there's no solving ''that'' one.
Even the county in which Lawndale resides is conflicted in [[canon]], with the MTV websites puttig it in [[Carter County]] and "[[One J at a Time]]" putting it in [[Lawndale County]]. For more on the Carter County/Lawndale County debate, see [[Off-Canon Canon#Carter County vs. Lawndale County|Off-Canon Canon]].
== Basic geography ==
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===Lawndale Shopping District===
As seen in "[[I Loathe a
===Rx Plex===
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Shown in the map on the far edge of town, in the south east. Lawndale's Director of Public Works lives outside it. (A sink hole opened in his garden)
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The country club seen in "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]".
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At store of uncertain business along the parade route of "I Loathe a Parade." Most notably, [[Daria Morgendorffer]] found [[Tad Gupty]] crying in front of the store because he had lost his parents.
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[[Axl's Piercing Parlor]] is a Dega Street business shown in "[[Pierce Me]]" run by [[Axl]].
[[Image:BigSub.jpg|thumb|right|100 px|Big Sub Shop]]
===Big Sub===
Seen in "I Loathe a Parade" near the spot where Daria, Tad and [[Tom Sloane]] hop on the [[Fashion Club]] float. Also seen as "Mmm Sub".
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* [[Robert Nowall]]: Similar to town of Poughkeepsie, New York
* [[Ranchoth]]: The Netherworld or Texas
* [[Ranger Thorne]]: Texas, though he recalls a map putting it in Connecticut; also wrote a story in which Lawndale was between New York, Metropolis (down around Norfolk),
* [[TerraEsperZ]]: Inside a tesseract (per Decelaraptor)
* [[TheBrodsterBoy]]: Outside of Harrisburg, where Lawnton is IRL.
* [[Veldrin]]: Massachusetts
* [[WacoKid]]: Colorado
* [[Mike Xeno]]: St. Louis, Missouri, or New England
* [[User:Pittsburghmuggle|Pittsburghmuggle]]: Always assumed it to be in California (a lot of other shows always seem to be), until [[Is It College Yet?]] when they drove up to Boston
* [[Ana Spanakopita]]: Richmond, VA; easy enough to tie into the Mid-Atlantic cultural references crossing over with southern. Close enough to east coast and Boston for driving purposes.
==External Links==
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