I was watching Rear Window with my Russian roommie a few months ago and she commented that the apartment complex the film is set in looks totally Soviet.
The big highrises are the Khrushchev and Brezhnev era buildings. When Wendy was here, I was staying in a Stalin building -- I'm sure she can tell you the difference. (Currently I'm in a building built in the '90s.) Stalin-era stuff is much better than later stuff, for some reason.
--- On Mon, 11/3/08, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: B. <docile_body at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] A scary Halloween with Sarah Palin
> To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 12:56 PM
> Actually, that's one thing that's aways amazed me --
> that the set of the Honeymooners (on b&w TV at least)
> looks so frankly dismal and bleak. Contrast it to
> today's preposterously slpendorous sitcom backgrounds
> (i.e. Al Bundy, a shoe salesman, with a stay at home wife,
> living in a two story suburban house with at least 3 or
> bedrooms). Even I Love Lucy had somewhat better digs -- but
> their apartment wasn't exactly something off Sex &
> the City either.
>
> -B.
>
>
> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> "Not really much different from standard US housing in
> the 1950s. The Honeymooners is set in what looks like an
> utterly Soviet apartment."
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