Dunder Mifflin & Architectural Salvage

This past weekend we made a trip to Scranton, PA. The main objective of our adventure was to pick up an old 5-panel door from an architectural salvage warehouse. But a close second was to check out the home of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

Architectural salvage... basically this is a fancy way of saying building supply junkyard. It was our first time. We were completely & utterly overwhelmed by:

1. the volume of *stuff* they had
2. the way that everything was sort of organized, yet still seemed like a mess
3. the variety interesting things in the inventory - there were from a HUGE marble mantle-type thing at least 15ft tall and must have weighed a TON, to a real boar's head

Scranton... as avid watchers of The Office I have to admit that the town is pretty much exactly how they portray it in the show. To me the town had the feeling of a modern day ghost town. In the 1900s Scranton was a booming iron ore and coal mining town, but that is long gone and without an industry to replace it.

You can't really blame them for trying to take advantage of The Office popularity. We saw signs for a $35 "The Office" walking tour which takes you to locations referenced in the show. While wandering around the downtown we walked to the Radisson Lackawana Station Hotel. This is the location where Dwight gave his Salesman of the Year speech. While that episode was really funny, the hotel was, well - just a hotel.