Lawndale

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").

The location of Lawndale is endlessly debated, and even the show's creators tended to keep it loose. Glenn Eichler suggested in an interview that it might be a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, and this is a frequently used location for many fanfics whose authors caught the hint. However, evidence in the series and Eichler's further comments allow for other locations as well, possibly into eastern Pennsylvania near Philadelphia.

Debate exists among fans as to other possible locations for the fictional suburb, or at least places that had a curious similarity to it. For example, Richard Lobinske has brought up the Florida Connection. Suggested locations of Lawndale, other than the Baltimore area, include the following, listed with the fan who offered the idea.

• Bacner: Essex County, Massachusetts
• Kristen Bealer: American Midwest
• Lisa Bleujabbe: California
• Brother Grimace: Lower Midwestern or southwestern United States, especially southern or eastern Texas, away from Dallas and Houston
• Decelaraptor: Inside a tesseract (he was the first one in the fandom to come up with the idea)
• Dervish: In a fictitious American state called Vikizan
• DJPotatoe: Frederick MD or Red Lion PA
• Michelle Klein-Haas: Connecticut
• Lawndale Stalker: East-central Washington state (e.g., Richland, Washington)
• Mike N: Texas coast between Corpus Christi and Houston
• 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), and Gotham City (on the Great Lakes)
• TerraEsperZ: Inside a tesseract (per Decelaraptor)
• Veldrin: Massachusetts
• WacoKid: Colorado
• Mike Yamiolkoski: St. Louis, Missouri, or New England

External Links

• Virtual Lawndale on the MTV website
• First March 2005 interview with Glenn Eichler on DVDaria (the Baltimore-or-Philadelphia answer)
• Lawndale: Suburb of Philadelphia? from the Daria Fandom Blog II.

PPMB threads discussing the location of Lawndale

• "Lawndale: A New Angle on Where It Is?"
• "Bookish Daria" (the thread wandered off-topic)
• "Iron Chef: The World Lawndale Is In"
• "What's the Population Size of Lawndale?"
• "Where Is Lawndale Located?"
• "Where is Lawndale?" (the most recent PPMB thread, 01/08)