Did Steven Cannel ever take the time to actually go to Palm Beach? This show isn't in PB, but the Hollywood "idea" of PB. For one thing, the palms are all wrong. Those tall, straight, skinny palms only grow in LA. PB has Royal Palms, not so tall, not so skinny, smoother and rounder. PB has an ordinance against sky scrapers, as well as an architectural commission that vetoes plate glass high rises. I believe The Breakers hotel is the tallest structure on PB, and it's only about 8-10 stories, if that. There are no hills or mountains in South Florida. The town is on an 18-mile long barrier island separated from the mainland by the Lake Worth Lagoon on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. At no point is the island wider than three-quarters of a mile, and in places it is only 500 feet wide. The northern boundary of Palm Beach is the Lake Worth Inlet, though it adjoined with Singer Island until the permanent dredging of the inlet in 1918. To the south, a section of Lake Worth Beach occupies the island in the vicinity of State Road 802, though an exclave of Palm Beach extends farther southward until the northern limits of South Palm Beach. No one speeds in PB. No one walks in PB. There are police patrolling everywhere, and a population of just under 8,000. So everyone knows your business, even though it's considered a very exclusive and private community. The beach is quite narrow and not continuous, being frequently interrupted by grandfathered, walled off, "private" areas. There are two private golf clubs, one - The Seminole - more exclusive than the other. The two main characters in this series, plus the entire police operation shown here, smacks of PWT and Miami Beach.
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