Polygamy on location
A New York company is offering tours of locations featured in HBO's hit series "The Sopranos."
(On Location Tours) charges $40 for the tour, which stops by Bada Bing (a strip club that is actually called Satin Dolls), the storefront of Satriale's and 38 other Sopranos locales, according to an Associated Press story. See Tony's pork store hangout! the company promises. Sit on the steps of the diner where Chris was shot!
About 20,000 people have gone for the ride over the past five years.
Let's see. This times that equals $800,000. Wow.
At a public forum a couple weeks ago in Salt Lake City, someone suggested Utah's polygamous communities set up a village in a southern Utah town with a plural family home, restaurant and other attractions. It's something to think about, now that HBO's new series "Big Love" is out and rolling along.
The reaction from one plural wife?
"Well, we can cook," she said.
The tour's hot spots also might include The Beehive House, where LDS Church president Brigham Young lived with some of his plural wives; the suburban neighborhood where the series was shot; a drive past the strip mall near Fort Union shown in the first episode and, of course, a trip to southern Utah to see the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City, where tourists could see, among other things, the schoolhouse where residents gathered to pray and sing as Arizona authorities staged the infamous 1953 raid on polygamists.
(On Location Tours) charges $40 for the tour, which stops by Bada Bing (a strip club that is actually called Satin Dolls), the storefront of Satriale's and 38 other Sopranos locales, according to an Associated Press story. See Tony's pork store hangout! the company promises. Sit on the steps of the diner where Chris was shot!
About 20,000 people have gone for the ride over the past five years.
Let's see. This times that equals $800,000. Wow.
At a public forum a couple weeks ago in Salt Lake City, someone suggested Utah's polygamous communities set up a village in a southern Utah town with a plural family home, restaurant and other attractions. It's something to think about, now that HBO's new series "Big Love" is out and rolling along.
The reaction from one plural wife?
"Well, we can cook," she said.
The tour's hot spots also might include The Beehive House, where LDS Church president Brigham Young lived with some of his plural wives; the suburban neighborhood where the series was shot; a drive past the strip mall near Fort Union shown in the first episode and, of course, a trip to southern Utah to see the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City, where tourists could see, among other things, the schoolhouse where residents gathered to pray and sing as Arizona authorities staged the infamous 1953 raid on polygamists.
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