The Buildings of SS

[Pug Lover]

What about the building in between,where there is a garage and an outdoor stairway with a small door at the top?Could that be connected to 123?My guess would be that it's the fire escape area.

I've often wondered what the tire swing hangs from.I realise that in real life,it would be hung from the studio ceiling.But on camera it looks as if it's hung from the sky.

 

[D'Snowth]

What about the building in between,where there is a garage and an outdoor stairway with a small door at the top?Could that be connected to 123?My guess would be that it's the fire escape area.

I explained in a previous post it's a storage room. In the video "Elmo's Magic Kitchen", Elmo, Telly, and a few kids are exploring around inside look at old stuff, kinda like how in just about every kiddie show they do a treasure hunt in the attic looking at old stuff that fascinates them.

As for a 123 fire escape, that's on the side of the building. If you've noticed whenever Maria or Luis are looking out their bedroom window that's a metal staircase.

I've often wondered what the tire swing hangs from.I realise that in real life,it would be hung from the studio ceiling.But on camera it looks as if it's hung from the sky.

Actually, it's (or supposed to be) hung from the fire escape of 123.

 

[The Count]

Oh... You mean the carriage house. That's been converted into Gina's vet office now. But yeah... Often wondered just what that door at the top of the two staircases next to the carriage house led to.
Not sure... Where exactly did the tire swing on camera? I know it was kind of above a wooden box, more towards the outside seating area of Hooper's Store. If so, that may lead to some good guesses as to what it may have probably hung from.

 

[OverUnderAround]

They should make an episode of Gordon and Susan moving.. to the apartment on the right. That would correct the show's error of when they look out the side window to help Big Bird.


Over the years we've seen the roof of 123 a few times as well.

 

[maniacal muppet]

The Book Sesame Street: Unpaved has a diagram of where each house is and who lives there.

 

[The Count]

Really? If you could... Could you please post it in descript form?
Thanks.

 

[D'Snowth]

Well, here's a little something I'd like to add to the subject of how the apartments don't make sense...

Ernie and Bert's apartment windows are right behind the dumpster wall of 123. Yet inside their apartment, their windows reveal clear blue skies. (In fact, they occasionally show other things like trees). And if they have the basement apartment, if there wasn't that wall in front of their windows, the scenery outside their windows should be like the street and the bottoms of the buildings across the street, shouldn't it?

 

[jeffkjoe]

123 Sesame Street:

Ernie and Bert - basement
Gordon and Susan - ground floor
Maria and Luis - top floor

Red building where carriage house is:

Elmo

Above Hooper's store:

Bob

Down the street:

Grover
Gina

 

[The Count]

Not necessarily... Regarding the tree, remember that one tree can be moved to whatever spot on the street the shot demands. Also, if this is like a dug-in trench basement level window, it most likely wouldn't give you a view of the bottoms of the buildings across the street, rather whatever's in the line of view or diagonally angled above that line of view.
And remember there's the other window to their apartment with the windowbox that houses the Twiddlebugs.
One more thing... Some people have mentioned that in the first season or so, a couple of trashcan lids were visible in that space between their front window and the banister on the outside that separates/marks that apartment belonging to Bert and Ernie.

 

[D'Snowth]

One more thing... Some people have mentioned that in the first season or so, a couple of trashcan lids were visible in that space between their front window and the banister on the outside that separates/marks that apartment belonging to Bert and Ernie.

It's true, I've seen that. Back then their apartment had a slightly different layout.

Oh, and I was told that during the second season, their windows actually revealed rooftops and TV antanias.