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wittgensteins-boat t1_itlzp2s wrote

Reply to comment by mini4x in This past Saturday, Salem was full by 11 a.m. Here's what it's like to live there in October. by zsreport

The popular "Bewitched" TV show put Salem on the map, in the 1960s, producing three episodes there.

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lorimar t1_itmlch0 wrote

It's more Hocus Pocus and other modern movies/shows these days. Not many of the tourists I've talked to have even heard of Bewitched anymore.

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wittgensteins-boat t1_itmukbz wrote

That early conscious raising made it possible for future writers to contemplate Salem as an historical scene.

Aided also by Arthur Miller's 1953 dramatization and reaction to Senator Joeseph McCarthy 's "Red Scare" accusations and hearings via "The Crucible", and the film produced, by the same name, in 1996.

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