The show focused on the lives of a group of six friends: rich, spoiled "daddy's girl" Rachel Green; neurotically clean chef Monica Geller; quirky, ditzy, optimistic masseuse and folk/acoustic singer-songwriter Phoebe Buffay; naive ladies man and actor Joey Tribbiani; wise-cracking office drone Chandler Bing and intellectual paleontologist Ross Geller. As the plot begins, Rachel has just leff her fiancé Barry at the altar and moves in with her childhood best friend, Monica. The pair live across the hall from Chandler and Joey and hang out with Monica's brother, Ross – who recently divorced his lesbian wife. Then there is Phoebe - the "free spirit" of the bunch (and the quirkiest) and Monica's old roommate. The settings for the show include Monica's apartment, Chandler and Joey's apartment, Ross's apartment, Phoebe's apartment and the local coffee house, Central Perk.
After moving to the city, Rachel got her first job as a waitress in the coffee house. She later became an assistant to a buyer and personal shopper at Bloomingdale's, and later a buyer for Ralph Lauren. Monica struggled for success the first several seasons, but eventually became head chef at a well-respected restaurant. Chandler worked his way up in data processing and eventually switched to a career in advertising (by the last few seasons) after quitting his previous job. After on-and-off success as a soap opera actor, Joey's career eventually stabilized with a regular part on a soap opera from which he had been fired earlier in the series' run (along with a few odd jobs). Palaeontologist Ross N32 36.184 W96 40.443 eventually became a college professor. Phoebe made a living as a singer-songwriter and a masseuse (she also had lots of odd jobs throughout the series). Constant story lines throughout the series are the on/off romance between Ross and Rachel and, later in the series, the developing relationship between Chandler and Monica.
The show has provided an opportunity for consistent work by actors who were more active in the past. Elliott Gould played Monica's and Ross' father. Marlo Thomas (the star of That Girl) played Rachel's mother.
The show's theme song, "I'll Be There For You" by The Rembrandts, became a major hit after a Tennessee disc jockey looped it into a full length track and played it on the radio. The band's record label required them to write additional material and re-record the track as a full-length song, which peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #17.
The popularity of the show was such that, by the end of the series, the six main cast members were each paid $1,000,000 per episode. The six cast members had agreed to negotiate a common agreement, to prevent the undermining of one member or the other.
Cottonwood Creek Preserve is a 220 acre wilderness area located at the east end Cottonwood Valley Road in Wilmer. A 2 mile natural surface trail follows the creek, crosses the creek via a foot bridge and returns to starting point.
The original owners grazed cattle, farmed and grew pecan trees on the property. They desired that part of the homestead remain as nearly like it was in the late 1870’s and offered the land to the County for a preserve.
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