Matt Groening reveals the real Springfield

Not much of a surprise, it's Springfield, Oregon.

http://www.key103.co.uk/news/entertainment/20120410-simpsons-creator-reveals-the-real-springfield/

-- R Flowers

Once Upon A Time, R Flowers wrote:

Hoo hah! Finally! I'm gonna move to Springfield, Oregon and set a Flaming 'Mo on fire!

** Captain Infinity ...then I'll steal his windup Santa doll and shoot me some reindeer!

If the Simpsons think the people in Shelbyville are strange, they should avoid visiting Portland as I hear that is where the real monsters live.

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:32:27 -0400, "Obveeus" wrote:

You're being too harsh on hipsters.

"David" wrote:

Most of the hipsters got harvested by Wesen.

No there's Wessen or Vesen and werewolves and such...

Beat me to it. I wasn't surprised either.

I

I call shenanigans. I used Google Maps, set on satellite view, to search the entire town. There are no burning tire yards anywhere.

On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:22:49 AM UTC-5, [email] wrote:

http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/tv/tvguide/article/Exclusive-Nope-Springfield-is-Not-in-Oregon-3478077.php

"I never said Springfield was in Oregon," Groening says. "I said Springfield was the name of my sled."

According to http://www.snpp.com/guides/city.profile.html Springfield was founded in 1796 by people who didn't want to marry their cousins [3F13] in a state founded by circus freaks [4F03] .

But, there are some clues that point to Springfield, Oregon.

In one episode Bart and Homer were trapped in a corn maze. Homer threw Bart up into the air to look around, and he saw the Seattle Space Needle in the distance.

And, in the episode where the bikers kidnapped Marge, one of them said that it was easy to ride to Springfield from Bakersfield (I assume Bakersfield, CA).

Mr. Museum

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, [email] wrote:

Then it can't be Oregon.

Great, great, great grandpa Alexander Ross was in the pacific northwest in 1811, about five years after Lewis & Clarke (and Sacajawea) hit the pacific about that point. The ship visited the Sandwich Islands on the way, some of the crew, including my ancestor, were marooned on Falkland Island, only catching up because Astor's representative pulled a gun on the captain and told him to turn back.

So they set up Fort Astoria in 1811, Astoria Oregon celebrated its 200th anniversary last year as a result.

They then proceeded to set up various other forts and trading posts. I assume when "gramps" met my great, great, great grandmother about 1812, he likely was the first white man they'd seen.

It took some time before the Pacific Northwest was really settled, the Oregon Trail ("gramps" gets mentioned in reference to that too) brought in people but about fifty years later (and many actually went down to California).

And really, it was the Yukon Goldrush, about 1897, that helped to develop things, Seattle Washington and Vancouver BC booming as a starting point for the miners.

Michael