wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 28, 2012 21:36:07 GMT -5
I just got caught up on watching all the episodes and I noticed that it's actually Storybrooke with an "e" on the end, like Stoneybrook used to have long ago when Jared Mullray and whoever used to live there.
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 1, 2012 17:53:25 GMT -5
The fictional town in the TV show Once Upon a Time is Storybrook, Maine. I love that show. When my mom and I first saw previews for it, we thought they said Stoneybrook, so I was all excited and my mom said something like, "hey, just like your baby-sitters books!" Lol. Stoneybrook is sort of interesting. Like greer said, it does sound much more Mid-Atlantic than New England at times, but the history for the town and a lot of the houses and things sound straight up NE. I wish Stoneybrook was real... that would be a great field trip.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Feb 1, 2012 20:37:30 GMT -5
I don't really think Stoneybrook is like anything around here, so I've always used my imagination! (and TV, lots of TV )
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 2, 2012 16:51:16 GMT -5
^ In Australia, they probably wouldn't have named the city Stoneybrook, either. Probably something like Wongthagong (my own made up cheeky play on Wollongong) or Goolongong. I do, however, love the homage to Aboriginal heritage in the city names. Here in Canada we have a lot of that, too -- the names aren't as eccentric though.
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Post by candykane on Feb 2, 2012 17:32:01 GMT -5
Stoneybrook as a whole never reminded me of any town that I knew. I grew up in the country, so it was a lot different from what Stoneybrook was supposed to be. Sometimes I'd base certain things about Stoneybrook on things I knew as a kid, though. I would picture Claudia's room to look like the bedroom of my elementary school best friend's. I would also picture Claudia's house to look like the house that was across the road from my childhood home.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Feb 2, 2012 19:09:20 GMT -5
^ In Australia, they probably wouldn't have named the city Stoneybrook, either. Probably something like Wongthagong (my own made up cheeky play on Wollongong) or Goolongong. I do, however, love the homage to Aboriginal heritage in the city names. Here in Canada we have a lot of that, too -- the names aren't as eccentric though. I used to live in Jindalee, now I live in Oxley. So there's a mixture
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 2, 2012 20:32:08 GMT -5
The closest town to here that reminds me in any way of Stoneybrook is near where my family used to vacation. It's a little too beachy, but the overall feel seems pretty similar. The beach city where we stayed reminds me a lot of Sea City. I always think of my childhood vacations when I read the Sea City books.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 3, 2012 10:50:01 GMT -5
Claudia's house & the Delaney/Krman house were somehow both the same place (down the street from me) in my head.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 3, 2012 11:45:48 GMT -5
^ Hahaha that's interesting because the Delaney and Korman house was a mansion, possibly one of the biggest in Stoneybrook.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 3, 2012 14:06:51 GMT -5
I know...
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Post by cnj on Aug 19, 2018 10:19:20 GMT -5
Stoneybrook reminds me of Newark, New Jersey.
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Post by cnj on Aug 19, 2018 10:20:51 GMT -5
I have always loved Stoneybrook too! It always reminded me sometimes of the south and very small towns in the south like SC or NC. I don't know why, but it just always did. Funny side note, the place I moved to is on Stoneybrooke West parkway and there is a huge golf/home community beside us that is called Stoneybrooke. Why would it remind you of some place in the SOUTH? Stoneybrook wasn't warm all year round; the houses were not planation-style; Stoneybrook didn't have Spanish moss growing all over the place and the only person who spoke with a drawl was Logan, who had come from Kentucky.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Aug 19, 2018 10:43:17 GMT -5
When I was on vacation in Michigan, there was a small town that we were in that reminded me of stoneybrook. I think it was traverse city.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 28, 2018 22:14:08 GMT -5
I have always loved Stoneybrook too! It always reminded me sometimes of the south and very small towns in the south like SC or NC. I don't know why, but it just always did. Funny side note, the place I moved to is on Stoneybrooke West parkway and there is a huge golf/home community beside us that is called Stoneybrooke. Why would it remind you of some place in the SOUTH? Stoneybrook wasn't warm all year round; the houses were not planation-style; Stoneybrook didn't have Spanish moss growing all over the place and the only person who spoke with a drawl was Logan, who had come from Kentucky. Small southern towns don’t always have these things. They are all hot though. Lol
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Post by cnj on Aug 29, 2018 4:49:52 GMT -5
Why would it remind you of some place in the SOUTH? Stoneybrook wasn't warm all year round; the houses were not planation-style; Stoneybrook didn't have Spanish moss growing all over the place and the only person who spoke with a drawl was Logan, who had come from Kentucky. Small southern towns don’t always have these things. They are all hot though. Lol True...but Stoneybrook is a NORTHERN town less than an hour from NEW YORK CITY.
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