As The World Turns - The Final Curtain
Michael Kirby Smith for TIME
Around Town
Maps of the two soundstages that contain the sets for ATWT hang in the writers' room. The show dominated daytime television in the 1960s and '70s, with millions of viewers tuning in daily to see the latest scandal in the Midwestern hamlet of Oakdale (actually a studio in New York City).
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