Location[edit] Central City's location has been vaguely defined over the years, similar to DC's other fictional cities such as Gotham City and Metropolis. In the 1970s, Central City was stated as being located in Ohio, where the real-world city of Athens, Ohio, would be (as shown in Flash #228 in 1974).
Report Abuse. Carl Wilson died of Lung Cancer in Feb '98 and Dennis Wilson died of drowning in December '83 after diving into the water to get something he had dropped overboard from a boat. He had been drinking all day and he apparently was too drunk to swim.
The family turmoil was nothing new. Dennis Wilson-born midway between Brian, now 41, and Carl, 37-grew up amid violence at home in Hawthorne, Calif., five miles from the Pacific. His father, Murray, a frustrated songwriter who had lost an eye while employed at a rubber plant, was a tyrant, Dennis once said.