in Harlem, with early advertisements declaring it “A food store for those who demand the best.” Stocked with specialty Jewish delicacies, the place became a hit with area denizens, famous for its smoked fish offerings, eventually earning Barney the nickname “The Sturgeon King.” Its first location was a small storefront at 113th St. Image Credit: Courtesy of Billy Lyle, Awesome Travel HolidaysĪ veritable New York institution, the eponymous eatery was initially established as an appetizing shop in 1908 by Russian transplant Barney Greengrass. Hartoonian (Adam LeFevre), where Joey Shorter (Nicholas Podany) works prior to becoming a Brightside salesman. (Fun fact – the ice cream shop also appears quite prominently on the third season of “Manifest.”) And Barney Greengrass, the famed restaurant/market on New York’s Upper West Side, masks as Hartoonian’s, the local Vistaville grocery store run by Mr. Kennedy International Airport in Queens also pops up as the spot where Billings and his fellow salesmen pitch the Brightside moon residences to a group of eager buyers in episode one, titled “Your Brighter Tomorrow, Today.” King Kone in Pearl River plays Bernie’s Hoverhop, where Jack takes the Brightside team at the end of the same episode. The red-carpeted 1962 Room at the iconic TWA Hotel at John F. The massive set, a circular-shaped space gloriously framed in teak and rock walls and outfitted with custom furnishings throughout, included the hotel’s lobby, diner, automat bar, conference room, hallway and multiple rooms, taking up a whole soundstage “from wall to wall,” as Sigel recently detailed on The Hollywood Podcast. The lodge’s sprawling interior, though, was entirely a studio build, created on a lot about 30 miles away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. in Nassau County, outfitting it with a more elaborate porte-cochère and a rock-wall façade. To portray the roadside motel’s exterior, the crew re-dressed the former Sands Beach Club, now The Sands on Lido Beach events venue at 710 Lido Blvd. The series’ central locale, The Vista Motor Lodge, is a mash-up of both. To create that familiarized onscreen world, the look of which is primarily based upon the modernist aesthetic promoted in 1950s print advertisements, production designer Maya Sigel and her team mainly utilized sets, with some practical locations situated throughout New York and Long Island thrown in for good measure. It’s imaginative landscaping we’re all kind of familiar with.” And that dream is a collective consciousness. As Amit Bhalla, who created the drama/comedy along with producing partner Lucas Jansen, told HeyUGuys, “The show is about dreamers and we wanted to set the show in a dream. Modernism Week may have wrapped up in Palm Springs, but the design movement is still currently thriving on the small screen thanks to Apple TV+’s “Hello Tomorrow!” Following the story of Jack Billings (Billy Crudup), a charlatan salesman peddling “fully furnished and value-priced” homes on the moon for the Brightside Lunar Residences Company, the new series takes place in a sort of futuristic yesteryear, complete with “Jetsons”-like gadgets (think robotic vacuums and hover cars), vibrant retro costumes and thoroughly cinematic midcentury-inspired scenery.
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