I’m one of those people who got hooked on “The Office” TV show during the pandemic. I watched all of the episodes over and over, and got to the point that I could (and did) sometimes recite long stretches of dialog along with the characters (sorry again to my hubby!) The show is based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, although it was filmed in California. However, the writers did their research and referred to many of the local landmarks in the show.
I’d recently read that there was a massive (86 feet wide, 27 feet high) mural of all the main characters of “The Office” being installed in Scranton. Luckily, we had a road trip planned to northeastern Pennsylvania this past weekend.
Our destination was Wilkes-Barre, which is about 20 miles south of–wait for it–Scranton! I decided that I had to figure out a way to extend our trip up to Scranton. My hubby would probably be fine with it, but he can also be very practical (unlike me)–I could hear it now: a half-hour drive times two (back and forth), gas used, money spent, all to look at a wall. I had to sweeten the pot.
Hubby has units in an antique mall in our town and is always on the hunt for more items to sell. I remembered that there was another “The Office” mural in Scranton, one on the side of the building that houses the store On & On. Guess what they sell there? Yep, antiques. How handy! Two birds with one stone, so to speak. That settled it–we were headed to Scranton.
Below is a photo of the new mural on Lackawanna Avenue. It’s colorful, it’s huge, and the photo below doesn’t do it justice–you have to see it in person to be able to truly appreciate it.
After visiting the new mural, we drove to On & On, located on Capouse Avenue, where a mural of the character Dwight Schrute is painted. Hubby picked up some great things for his antique units and I got a photo of another incredible piece of artwork:
After that we got lucky–we stumbled upon a third “The Office” mural. One of the landmarks that’s mentioned in the show is Coopers Seafood House, and as we were driving down North Washington Avenue, I recognized the lighthouse from footage of it in the show. Of course, we had to pull into the parking lot.
And there, on the side of a building right beside the restaurant, was this:
We had time for one more antiquing stop (where he found yet more great stuff) before we had to wrap it up in Scranton and head back to Wilkes-Barre. It’s too bad that we didn’t have time to do more in Scranton, but as we drove back down Interstate 81 and I happily looked through my photos while dear hubby recounted all the great bargains he’d gotten, we agreed that we’d had perfect day (for us) in The Electric City.
ChessieWriter 