| | Most of the stories took place in the judge's home town of Carvel, [[Idaho]]. However, many of the stories followed the Hardy family either to vacations or to special assignments or other adventures in [[Catalina]], [[California]]; [[Washington, DC]], [[New York City]], a ranch in [[Arizona]], and [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. In addition, two of the films chronicled Andy Hardy's adventures as a college student in yet another unnamed community. | | Most of the stories took place in the judge's home town of Carvel, [[Idaho]]. However, many of the stories followed the Hardy family either to vacations or to special assignments or other adventures in [[Catalina]], [[California]]; [[Washington, DC]], [[New York City]], a ranch in [[Arizona]], and [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. In addition, two of the films chronicled Andy Hardy's adventures as a college student in yet another unnamed community. |
| − | The town of Carvel is fictitious, as is everything connected with it, including Judge James K. Hardy and his family, and the story arc, such as it was (see below), that the films depicted. As depicted in these films, Carvel had a large enough population to have its own [[public school]] system and regularly to elect its own judge, but was not much larger. Carvel had its own [[railroad]] station, apparently with excellent railway connections to Washington, DC and to New York City. Carvel also had its own airfield, which figured in only two of the films. | + | The town of Carvel is fictitious, as is everything connected with it, including Judge James K. Hardy and his family, and the story arc, such as it was (see below), that the films depicted. As depicted in these films, Carvel had a population of 25,000--large enough to have its own [[public school]] system and regularly to elect its own judge, but not much larger. Carvel had its own [[railroad]] station, apparently with excellent railway connections to Washington, DC and to New York City. Carvel also had its own airfield, which figured in only two of the films. |