Storybrooke

"Somewhere horrible. Absolutely horrible. A place where the only happy ending... will be mine."

- Evil Queen to Snow White

Storybrooke, Maine is a Land Without Magic location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the first episode of the first season of Once Upon a Time.

Inhabitants

 * Albert Spencer
 * Alexandra
 * Anton º
 * Archie Hopper
 * Ariel º
 * Ashley Boyd
 * Astrid
 * August Booth º
 * Aurora 2
 * Ava Zimmer
 * Bashful
 * Belle
 * Billy †
 * Bo Peep (Storybrooke)
 * Cora º †
 * David Nolan
 * Doc
 * Dopey
 * Dr. Thatcher
 * Dr. Whale
 * Emma Swan º
 * Eric
 * Felix º †
 * Flying Monkeys 2 †
 * Friar Tuck 2
 * Granny
 * Greg Mendell º †


 * Happy
 * Henry Mills º
 * Hook º
 * Jefferson
 * Jim
 * John Darling º
 * Johanna †
 * Kathryn Nolan
 * Keith
 * Kurt Flynn º †
 * Leroy
 * Little John 2
 * Lost Boys º
 * Maleficent
 * Marco
 * Marian º
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Merry Men 2
 * Michael Darling º
 * Michael Tillman
 * Miss Ginger
 * Mitchell Herman
 * Moe French
 * Mother Superior
 * Mr. Clark
 * Mr. Gold


 * Mr. Krzyszkowski
 * Neal Cassidy º †
 * Neal Nolan º
 * Nicholas Zimmer
 * Paige
 * Peter Pan º †
 * Pinocchio º
 * Pongo
 * Regina Mills
 * Robin Hood 2
 * Roland 2
 * Ruby
 * Sean Herman
 * Severe Nurse
 * The Shadow º
 * Sheriff Graham †
 * Sidney Glass
 * Snow Queen
 * Tamara º  †
 * Tinker Bell º
 * Walter
 * Wendy Darling º
 * Will Scarlet ^
 * William Smee
 * Wolf *
 * Zelena 2 †

Visitors

 * Alice
 * Anton
 * Ariel
 * August Booth
 * Cora †
 * Cyrus


 * Elsa
 * Emma Swan
 * Glasses
 * Greg Mendell †
 * Henry Mills
 * Hook


 * Keychain
 * Kurt Flynn †
 * Neal Cassidy
 * Tamara †
 * White Rabbit
 * Wraith

Trapped in Storybrooke
When someone attempts to leave Storybrooke, something always prevents the person from actually leaving: When someone crosses the Storybrooke town line, he or she forgets everything about his or her life in the Enchanted Forest due to Mr. Gold bringing magic: As a counter effect to retaining one's memories: As a solution to regaining one's memories of his or her prior life in the Enchanted Forest: When Someone tries to leave Storybrooke, he or she gets carried away by a Flying Monkey and they are turned into a Flying Monkey
 * -|Season One=
 * Ruby desires to leave for Boston, but her grandmother suffers a heart attack and that keeps her in town.
 * Ashley attempts to escape out of town to Boston so she can keep her baby, but goes into labor before exiting the border.
 * Kathryn applied to a law school in Boston and decides to move there alone, but is kidnapped by Mr. Gold before she makes it out.
 * Emma is forced to take orphan siblings Ava and Nicholas Zimmer to Boston and place them into the foster care system, but her car breaks down on the drive out of Storybrooke.
 * -|Season Two=
 * Mr. Clark is pushed out by Leroy in an experiment to see what will happen if someone crosses the town line, and he suffers memory loss.
 * Belle falls over the border when she is shot by Hook and she loses her memories.
 * Mr. Gold created a spell to allow himself to cross the border with his Enchanted Forest memories still intact. He pours a memory potion on an object of great sentimental value, and it becomes a talisman allowing the person to cross the line and keep their memories. He first tested this out on William by dumping some of the potion on his hat. Then, he pushed William across the border with the hat. The potion works, and thus, Mr. Gold later uses it on his son's shawl and wears it as he crosses out of town.
 * Mother Superior created a memory potion, with one of the ingredients being a strand of Pinocchio's hair, in order to enable the user who drinks it to have his or her memory restored. She made two doses of the potion and gave them to Leroy. In order for the potion to work, the potion must be poured into an object of sentimental value to the one who drinks it. The dwarves find Mr. Clark's old drinking stein at the pawnshop and later use it so he can regain his memories. As for the other potion dose, Leroy hands it to Mr. Gold, which he decides to have Lacey drink it so she can become Belle again.
 * -|Season Three=
 * Little John accidently goes passed the town line and is turned into a Flying Monkey.

Locations
For detailed location information, please see the list of Storybrooke locations.

Notable Businesses

 * Any Given Sundae ^
 * Atlantic Twine & Net
 * Chop Shop^^
 * Dark Star Pharmacy
 * Dave's Fish & Chips
 * Duperré & Hughes^^
 * Game of Thorns
 * George's Taverna
 * Granny's Bed and Breakfast
 * Granny's Diner
 * Hopper Psychiatry Office
 * Jolene's Art and Crafts
 * Kisamos Greek Taverna
 * La Tandoor^^
 * Marine Garage
 * Modern Fashions
 * Mr. Gold Pawnbroker & Antiquities Dealer
 * Neighbor's


 * Purbeck Shoe Store
 * The Rabbit Hole
 * Sara's Ice Cream
 * Standard Clocks
 * Storybrooke Cannery
 * Storybrooke Coffee Co
 * Storybrooke Dental
 * Storybrooke Country Bread
 * Storybrooke Library
 * Storybrooke Hardware & Paint
 * Storybrooke Pet Shelter^ ^^^
 * Storybrooke Post Office
 * Storybrooke Real Estate
 * Storybrooke Savings & Loan
 * Worthington's Haberdashery^^^

Trivia

 * The town's name is a pun on "story book".
 * Filming of Storybrooke scenes takes place in Steveston Village, British Columbia, Canada.
 * Storybrooke can be accessed by other worlds in the following ways: Via the Land Without Magic at the Storybrooke town border, via the magic wardrobe, using the ashes of the wardrobe combined with the waters of Lake Nostos, using a magic bean to create a portal, or via a rabbit hole (the latter only works after magic is brought to Storybrooke ).
 * Boston seems to be the nearest city to the town because many characters who tried to leave were heading there.
 * According to the marked route on the Darling brothers' map, Storybrooke appears to be in the location of Thomaston, Maine, a small seaport town west of Rockland.
 * Additionally, according to Emma, Boston is four hours away from Storybrooke. This may be an accurate time frame for a drive from Boston to Thomaston, taking delays and speed fluctuations into account.
 * Storybrooke has many nods to the Enchanted Forest:
 * The inn has pink floral wallpaper.
 * The diner has forest-themed wallpaper.
 * The mayor's office and the town hall have birch-tree wallpaper. There are matching birch tree logs by the Mayor's fireplace.
 * Archie has green stripes on his office walls tapestry. This is a subtle a reference to his former life as a cricket; crickets live among the grass. There is forest-themed wallpaper above the green, well above eye-level; fitting for a former cricket. There are mushroom ornaments on Archie's bookshelves.
 * In the pawnshop, actual birch trunks are scattered around as dividers. The wall behind the counter have crenelated "windows" which are full of paintings of trees and woods.
 * Kathryn's house has flower printed wallpaper.
 * One of Mary Margaret's school classrooms has tree silhouettes on the windows.
 * The pet shelter has silvery forest wallpaper on the counter and behind the counter, and tree silhouettes on the window pane. In addition, real tree trunks are used as decorations.
 * Real trees are used as decorations at the town bar.
 * Jefferson has birch tree trunks in his living room. A room in his mansion has forest-themed wallpaper and floral curtains. There's a silver tree-like rack inside the hat room.
 * Tree motifs are decorating the wall next to Mary Margaret's bed in her apartment.
 * Sara's Ice Cream is a real-life Steveston Village business that features Once Upon a Time inspired ice cream names and flavors such as Once Upon a Thyme, Cinderella’s Carriage, Entirely Emma, Mr. Gold and Grumpy's Road.
 * Goof: In "The Thing You Love Most", "Snow Falls", "The Price of Gold", "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", "What Happened to Frederick", as well as the flashbacks from 1983 in "Welcome to Storybrooke", the blue storefront next to Granny's Diner is the actual Worthington's Haberdashery located on Moncton Street in Steveston Village, where Once Upon a Time films. By the time of the "The Stable Boy", however, this storefront has become the Storybrooke Pet Shelter, thanks to a false facade.
 * The storefront next to the pet shelter changes as well, beginning as the actual La Tandoor restaurant in "The Thing You Love Most", "Snow Falls", "The Price of Gold", "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", "7:15 A.M.", "True North" and "What Happened to Frederick", before becoming the Duperré & Hughes law firm in "Broken". In "White Out", Chop Shop has also moved into the same building.
 * Storybrooke's coat of arms is an apple tree.
 * Storybrooke's zip code is 04815.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.