Grab a cup of coffee—we’re taking you behind the scenes of Stars Hollow

Gilmore Girls ran from 2000 to 2007, with a follow-up mini-series premiering in 2016. Photo: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

We hate to break it to you, but Stars Hollow, Connecticut, is not a real place. Yet the endearing small town depicted in Gilmore Girls was so flush with quaint details—falling leaves, quirky gatherings, and sweet little nooks such as Taylor’s Olde Fashioned Soda Shoppe, Weston’s Bakery, and Stars Hollow Books—that it’s easy to imagine Lorelai and Rory Gilmore (played by Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel) gabbing over coffee at the retro-style Luke’s Diner at this very moment.

“The show was never about something being slick and glossy and trendy,” Lauren Crasco, the show’s production designer for 42 episodes, tells AD . “We were always very nostalgic and aimed for an existing vintage feel.…