I found your blog from Google while I was trying to figure out if the bakery in Sunday's episode was real or not. But I was also curious about the resevoir. My wife and I were speculating that it might have been the lake on the Pocantico property.

I'm not sure from your map where this is, but it's more information than I had yesterday.

They've mentioned Sing Sing several times.  That was one of the first references in the series. 

Series creator Matthew Weiner explains why he chose Ossining:

http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/November-2009/Live-Like-a-Mad-Man/

I also grew up in Ossining and proudly still do. I scrutinize each Mad Men episode looking for Ossining references and the rare, but  occassional, mistake and noticed the Wilson One blunder as well..  As a graduate of Brookside School (in 1968), I couldn't help notice the reference on an episode this year to Brookside Elementary School. WRONG - the word, Elementary, was never included in the name of the school.  Interesting comment about Arcadian Shopping Center - we'll see!  I have an incredible memory of Ossining details as I am only 51 - they should use me as a consultant. Who remembers Riglioni's, Surrey Restaurant, Victoria Theatre, Books and Things wrapping paper???

They ought to mention Peter Falk and the Woolworth's his folks owned.

I think it's very symbolic for Don Draper to live in Ossining where Sing-Sing Prison is located -- he is trapped in his mind's prison full of his old demons. Also appropriate to live in Ossining where Maryknoll Mission is based -- there is a lot of potential for self-redemption. I always thought it was funny about Ossining, how it's located between good & evil. :) Draper is really treaded the ground between these two poles at his job down the river on Madison Ave as an adman... Lots of good connections like that to Ossining, symbolically, in my opinion.

I believe the Falks actually owned a shoestore in downtown Ossining. It would have been a hoot if they got Peter Falk to do a cameo on the show, but I hear he is suffering from Alzheimer's now. So sad. Maybe they can work a reference in some other way.

The setting is Ossining because it was the home of legendary short-story writer John Cheever, the chronicler of upper middle-class WASP suburbia in post World War II America.  Cheever first lived in Briarcliff Manor and then moved to Ossining on Cedar Lane off Route 9A.  He  wrote a novel Bullet Park where the setting was Westchester County.   The Drapers live on Bullet Park Road.  Most of Cheever's  stories took place in Westchester, which at the time was considered the most fashionable suburban county in America and became known as Cheever country.  It was a very different place than it is today.  The Drapers resemble typical characters from Cheever's short stories.    

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falks did not own Woolworths nor did they own a shoe store.  They owned a clothing store which was next to Kipp's Pharmace on Main Street.  I know this for a fact because my aunt lived there and my family did lots of shopping there. Peter Falk used to visit my cousin Fran at my grandmother's house

I just saw this episode for the first time last night (I'm way behind, I know), and while I watched, I wondered whether the hospital Betty had her son in was Phelp's Memorial. I was born there in the mid-70's and today I asked my mother what doctor delivered me and sure enough, it was Dr. Stanley Mendolwitz! I grew up in the town of Greenburgh (yet with a White Plains address, an Elmsford phone number, and Mt Pleasant Schools) and I was born at Phelps in the town of North Tarrytown. I tell everyone I was born in Sleepy Hollow, though, as it has since been renamed and Sleepy Hollow sounds much cooler anyways! I stiill frequent the Carvel in Elmsford on 9A (which is the one they would have likely visited on the way back from antiquing in Tarrytown. The attention to historical detail in this series is amazing!