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rendezvous ballroom
from dick dale, surf music, big band posted in music by pete_nice
Built in 1928, the Rendezvous Ballroom was constructed on the Balboa peninsula in Orange County, CA.
Capitalizing on the popularity of swing and big band music, the ballroom featured numerous performers of that era: Artie Shaw, Ozzie Nelson, Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Bob Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, and more.
In the early '60, Dick Dale was playing at an ice cream parlor in the area. He added members of a backing band to form the Del-Tones, and he played his first gig at the Rendezvous on July 1, 1961. Only 17 people showed up, most of them his surfer friends.
But Dale continued to play and within four months, thousands of people were attending nightly to see the band perform and dance "The Surfer Stomp." Several other bands formed as a result of these shows, and surf rock was born.
The Rendezvous Ballroom burnt down in 1966 (coincidentally, a band called the Cinderman played the night before). In 1986, the O.C. Historical Commission dedicated a plaque here.
view full location details...lowell high school
from jack kerouac posted in literature by speedy_dee
Jack Kerouac graduated from Lowell High School in 1939, three months after his seventeenth birthday.
He played outfield in baseball, and was a standout on the track and football teams.
view full location details...apollo theater
from ella fitzgerald, james brown posted in music by pete_nice
Built in 1913 at this location in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, this theater changed hands several times until it was purchased, refurbished, and renamed the Apollo Theater by Frank Schulman in 1934.
Since the neighborhood had benefited from a large influx of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, Schulman wanted to make the theater exclusively black entertainment. He hired in-house producer Clarence Robinson, and the famous "audition night" was instituted.
In 1934, a seventeen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald won the $25 first prize for her vocal renditions of "Judy" (by Hoagy Carmichael) and "The Object of My Affection" (by Pinky Tomlin).
In 1962, James Brown recorded the album Live at the Apollo at the theater. The album was very popular (66 weeks on the Billboard charts), and led to 3 more James Brown live albums and a tv special at the Apollo.
view full location details...hemlock grove main street
from hemlock grove posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
The Eli Roth-produced Netflix original Hemlock Grove is set in the fictional former steel town of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. Filming was originally going to take place outside Pittsburgh, but they ran into difficulties (something about misunderstanding how film tax credits work) so it ended up being filmed in and around Toronto.
Queen St. in Port Perry, Ontario is the stand-in for Hemlock Grove's Main Street.
view full location details...the whitney
from danny brown posted in music by ratsnamgod
In his track "Lie4", Danny Brown makes several false claims about his financial status. He suggests that he has large amounts of cash in denominations of fifty & one hundred dollar bills. He purports be in a romantic relationship with a fashion model and that he employs servants at his home. He also claims to dine at one of Detroit's finest restaurants, The Whitney.
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