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Fargo, North Dakota striving to get past movie reputation

October 25, 2014 /

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Jason Gireto donned a plaid hunting cap to pose for the requisite souvenir: a photo with colleagues shoving a white-socked mannequin leg into the wood chipper used in the 1996 Academy Award-winning dark comedy "Fargo."

Yet even as hundreds of visitors a year flock to the machine made famous in a vivid bit of movie mayhem, local leaders are working to update the perception of Fargo, the place. The world should know the North Dakota city as a diversified engine of regional growth — not the peculiar locale depicted in the film by the Coen brothers and an FX television series, they say.

By Jennifer Oldham Bloomberg News

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/home/1743249-155/fargo-downtown-million-percent-company-north

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