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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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[[Image:Governorsayscrap.jpg|thumb|right|The guv'nor.]]
* "[[The Lab Brat]]" seems to imply Pennsylvania as the more likely location of Lawndale, as Kevin expresses his desire to aid Daria in their lab project after that night's Steelers game. Were Lawndale to be a suburb of Baltimore, it is unlikely Kevin would be a Steelers fan, as there is an historic rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore's football team, the Ravens.
* The "See Jane Run" article calls the Dutch "settlers", which implies Dutch colonists. That would place Lawndale in the ex-New Netherland states of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland Delaware, Connecticut, or Pennsylvania]. Alternatively,
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* Lawndale is within reasonable driving distance of the coast (the Sloane's have a summer home there), somewhere with southern accents ("[[I Don't]]"), and a rural desert with "cowboy" accents ("[[Speedtrapped]]"). In the same interview he mentioned Maryland, Eichler implies "I Don't" was set in Virginia.
* Lawndale's a few hours drive away from [[Newtown]] (home of [[Bromwell]] University), which is itself 3 to 4 hours from Boston. Newtown itself may be modelled on New Haven, the home of Yale, in Connecticut. ("[[Is It College Yet?]]")
* 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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===Big Strawberry===
The [[Big Strawberry]] is a roadside tourist attraction shown on the Lawndale map in "[[The Daria Diaries]]". [[Lawndale High]]'s web page implies that it may be torn down, and [[Timothy O'Neill]] is running the "Save the Strawberry" campaign to get it registered as a landmarked building. ("Someone at the National Register of Historic Places finally returned one of his phone calls.") It is sometimes called the Giant
Believe it or not, this is based on [http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/4035 a real roadside attraction at Strawberry Point, Iowa].
===Crewe Neck===
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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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* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2839 Lawndale: A new angle on where it is?]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2990 Bookish Daria] (off-topic section)
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5268 Reviving the "Where's Lawndale?" question] '''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5832 Iron Chef: The world Lawndale is in]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6716 What's the population size of Lawndale?]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7557 Lawndale's location]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8174 Essay topics for the future]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10658 Where is Lawndale located?]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12043 Who is the richest person in Lawndale?]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15596 "Daria" and the Class System]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15597 Class and Lawndale]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17294 Where is Lawndale? Does it matter?]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21121 Where is Lawndale?]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=25399 What is the population of Lawndale?]'''(thread removed)'''
* [http://www.thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26897 TMI+20: Lawndale after Three Mile Island goes BOOM!] (Lawndale as a suburb of Harrisburg PA)
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