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ferris bueller’s house
from ferris bueller’s day off posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The exterior of Ferris Bueller's house in the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's located in Long Beach, California not Chicago where the movie takes place.
view full location details...the peachoid
from house of cards posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
The Peachoid, a water tower built to look like a peach in Frank's home district of Gaffney, South Carolina, is a focal point of Season 1, Episode 3 of House of Cards when a seventeen-year-old girl drives off the highway and dies while texting how the peach looks like a giant ass.
view full location details...brookhaven national laboratory
from tennis for two posted in video games by pete_nice
Developed in 1958 by William Higginbotham to entertain bored visitors to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Tennis for Two is considered one of the first video games ever created.
The game was constructed using an oscilloscope as a display and a Donner Model 30 analog computer as a processor. The players would use an aluminum analog joystick to volley a "tennis ball" back and forth in a profile view of a match (unlike Pong, which was viewed from above).
The game was used only twice (during the Brookhaven open houses), but hundreds of people gathered in line to experience the new form of interaction. Check out this fascinating video of the 1958 recreation.
Higenbotham now has a special collection named for him, the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection, at Stony Brook University. Their mission is dedicated to "documenting the material culture of screen-based game media."
view full location details...del amo mall
from jackie brown posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The money exchange in Tarantino's Jackie Brown takes place at Torrance, California's Del Amo Mall (or Del Amo Fashion Center® as it is now called), specifically a store called Billingsley's that isn't real. The mall is billed in the movie as the largest indoor mall in the world, although since Jackie Brown takes place in 1995, the Mall of America in Minneapolis had already taken over that distinction in 1992.
Frank Black grew up in the area, and his love song to the Del Amo Mall, "The Hostess with the Mostest," is on his second album Teenager of the Year.
view full location details...st. mary’s hospital, port arthur
from janis joplin posted in music by donkeyoti
On January 19, 1943, Janis Lyn Joplin was born here to Seth Joplin, an engineer at Texaco, and Dorothy Joplin, a registrar at a business college. Janis was their first child and the family lived on Procter St. for the first few years of Janis's life.
The St. Mary's Hospital in Port Arthur, TX is not to be confused with the St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, MN where Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941.
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