It's what the creator of "The Simpsons," the nation's longest-running
sitcom, used as a backdrop for 22-minute allegories about the American
experience, beginning as earnest tales about a lower-middle class
nuclear family and expanding to encompass spoofs of presidential
elections, the obesity epidemic and "Citizen Kane." It's also, according to an interview posted online Tuesday, a real
place. "Springfield was named after Springfield, Ore.," Groening told
Smithsonian magazine. The real Springfield is a western Oregon town of about 60,000 people. Its quiet Main Street is struggling in the face of a recession while the highway-based chain stores and restaurants survive or thrive. Its median income is just under $40,000 and nearly 20 per cent of people of all ages live under the poverty line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Oregon
No comments:
Post a Comment