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empire hotel
from vertigo posted in movies by ratsnamgod
Judy Barton's hotel in the film.
Location now operates under the name Hotel Vertigo and plays the film on a continuous loop.
view full location details...hemingway bar, ritz hotel
from ernest hemingway posted in literature by pete_nice
Ernest "Pappa" Hemingway roamed the streets of Paris in the 1920s with other ex-pat writers like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ford Maddox Ford- but he could only afford to drink at the Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendôme once a week. After a couple of best-sellers, he had a bit more spending money, but by that time the Germans had decided to borrow France for awhile.
Big Pappa didn't appreciate that, so when D-Day came he decided to play soldier as a war correspondent for Collier's magazine. By most accounts, he did a pretty good job- rounding up a gang of Resistance fighters and outfitting them, then drinking at cafés and wine cellars while dodging German snipers on the way to Paris. Their mission: to liberate the Ritz.
On August 25, 1944, while Gen. Jacques Leclerc's 2nd French Armored Division and a number of American units liberated Paris, Hemingway and his band of freedom fighters liberated the Ritz.
Read the article here.
view full location details...marcy playground
from marcy playground posted in music by donkeyoti
The band Marcy Playground is named after the playground of the Marcy Open School where lead singer and guitarist John Wozniak attended as a youth.
vesuvio cafe
from jack kerouac, allen ginsberg, the beats posted in literature by pete_nice
Founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, the Vesuvio Cafe became a popular hangout for Beat writers like Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy.
From the Vesuvio website:
"On October 17, 1955, Neal Cassady, the real life Dean Moriarty of the quintessential Beat classic On the Road, stopped at Vesuvio on the way to the now legendary Six Gallery for a poetry reading, and the place has never been the same. It became a regular hangout of Jack Kerouac and other famous Beat poets and has become ground zero for pilgrims on the Beat trail ever since."
view full location details...jack kerouac alley
from jack kerouac, the beats posted in literature by pete_nice
Located between the City Lights Bookstore and the Vesuvio Café in San Francisco, Alder Alley became Jack Kerouac Alley thanks to the efforts of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1998.
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