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I was using Google Map?s ?Street View? feature to 360 degree view of some of The Wire?s real-life location of Baltimore, MD. I typed the address ?1450 N Aisquith St, Baltimore, MD, United States? and found a block that looks similar to The Wire Season 4?s young characters hang out spot.? It feels like a virtual tour. If you don?t know about the Google feature, then I?ll explain. Google offers a feature for free where you can view streets on ground level located in the United States by typing the address. This is different from the aerial view, where you can view from streets from a satellite view. Street view allows you to virtually walk around the streets with each click of the button. You start by going to google.com and clicking on maps at the top. You type the address you want and will see a small map of the location. You can then click on ?Street View? and experience a 360 degree tour.
Everyone should try to find a location of a popular scene in The Wire and give us the location to view in Google maps.
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Re: Take a Virtual Tour of The Wires scene locations on Google Maps
Apr 12, 2009 11:22 PM
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I found other Wire Locations
Orlando's Strip Club
504 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD
It is called the New Ritz now. You can verify location by comparing Google street view with Youtube video of McNulty arresting Avon
Marlo's confrontation with Security Guard
1616 N Patterson Park Ave, Baltimore, MD
Compare Google street map with Yotube video "Marlo one way"
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Apr 11, 2009 6:10 PM
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I just found some of the actual locations of the Character?s hang out spots by David Simon
Drug Corners And Bulletproof Bars
(From >> E Biddle St / N Bond St, Baltimore, MD To>> E Federal St / N Bond St, Baltimore, MD)
This tour itinerary doesn?t include stops at any particular drug-corner locations, though they are central to The Wire?s plots. That?s because they?re everywhere. ?Drug corners are so easy for me to find,? Peranio says while driving back north on Bond Street. ?Almost any corner in this neighborhood could be one. Every time we get a script, there?s a list of 35 places to find in five days. If it?s an alley, a bar, or a drug corner, we just say [to the crew] set up where you want, because I?ll walk up the street and find a good drug corner.? Several of the corners on this stretch of Bond were used as drug corners in the third and fourth seasons.
The Rim Source
(2351 E. North Ave, Baltimore, MD)
At night, the blue neon lighting up the chrome rims in the windows of this North Avenue store make a memorable backdrop for meetings between Marlo and his colleagues in the drug trade.
Bubbles? Garage
(1820 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD, United States)
This address is the alley leading to Bubble?s Garage. McNulty drops him off here in Season 1. Unfortunately, due to limitations in Street view, you cannot see Bubble?s Garage
Hamsterdam
(1842 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD, United States) You will see the path to the alley leading to Hamsterdam. In the third season, this site played the part of ?Amsterdam,? an area where police condoned drug activity in an attempt to push dealing off the corners. Once two rows of abandoned rowhouses, it?s now a field of wild grass. ?It was great because it was really scary looking and all that, but nobody was around so we really had control over it,? Peranio says. Then, with two episodes left to film, the rowhouses were torn down. Peranio had to scramble for a similar-looking location. It wasn?t too hard. ?I moved down the street one block.?
Primary School No. 32
(1634 N. Guilford Ave., Baltimore, MD, United States)
To end your tour on a somewhat redemptive note, pause at the former Mildred Monroe Elementary School at the corner of Guilford Avenue and Federal Street in Greenmount West. The original structure, as Primary School No. 32, was built in the 1890s. Shuttered five summers ago, the vacant school served as a central exterior and interior location for The Wire this season, which focuses partly on four young children. ?It was badly vandalized inside,? Peranio says, ?The windows were broken, everything that was metal was torn out of it and sold for scrap. We painted it, did new murals, and set all the classrooms up and the cafeteria, and it became one of our main stages.? In the fall of 2007, the school is scheduled to reopen as a private Catholic academy for low-income students.
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Re: Take a Virtual Tour of The Wire?s scene locations on Google Maps
Apr 11, 2009 4:26 PM
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Looks Like some of Marlo Stanfield?s victims were dumped in ?2312 E Federal St., Baltimore, MD?
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Take a Virtual Tour of The Wire?s scene locations on Google Maps
Apr 11, 2009 3:58 PM
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I was using Google Map?s ?Street View? feature to 360 degree view of some of The Wire?s real-life location of Baltimore, MD. I typed the address ?1450 N Aisquith St, Baltimore, MD, United States? and found a block that looks similar to The Wire Season 4?s young characters hang out spot.? It feels like a virtual tour. If you don?t know about the Google feature, then I?ll explain. Google offers a feature for free where you can view streets on ground level located in the United States by typing the address. This is different from the aerial view, where you can view from streets from a satellite view. Street view allows you to virtually walk around the streets with each click of the button. You start by going to google.com and clicking on maps at the top. You type the address you want and will see a small map of the location. You can then click on ?Street View? and experience a 360 degree tour.
Everyone should try to find a location of a popular scene in The Wire and give us the location to view in Google maps.
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Edited by therealbones at 04/11/2009 1:01 PM PDT
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