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janis joplin’s first home
from janis joplin posted in music by donkeyoti
Although the original home has since been torn down, the Joplin's were living at this address when Janis was born on January 19, 1943. For the diehard fans, the bricks of this home are for purchase at the Museum of the Gulf Coast.
view full location details...“this land is your land”
from woody guthrie posted in music by crabapple
The name of the building was the Hanover House or the Hanover Hotel, and it was located at 101 West 43rd Street on the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue (now called Avenue of the Americas). Currently, it is the International Center for Photography.
This blogger does a great job analyzing the different views Guthrie would have had out his window as he wrote his most famous song.
view full location details...mermaid avenue
from billy bragg & wilco posted in music by crabapple
The Guthrie family lived at 3520 Mermaid Ave for 7 years. Guthrie used to take the kids to the beach and to his favorite restaurant- Nathan's Famous hot dogs.
Source: Rolling Stone
okemah lynching bridge
from woody guthrie posted in music by crabapple
In May of 1911, a posse was formed to investigate a stolen cow near Okemah, OK. The posse went to the Nelson family farm, and in the ensuing confusion a deputy was shot in the stomach and bled to death.
The father pleaded guilty to larceny and was sent to the state prison in McAlester. However, the mother, Laura Nelson, and her son, L.D. Nelson, were sent to the Okemah County Jail.
The two were kept there until late in the evening on May 24, 1911, when a lynch mob kidnapped them and hung them over the North Canadian River (from a different bridge, but probably at this same location). Several photographs were taken to be made into postcards- a common tactic of the day. These were the only photographs made of a female lynching victim in that era.
Woody Guthrie wrote many songs that reflect on this incident near his home town: "Don't Kill My Baby and My Son," "Slipknot," and "High Balladree."
view full location details...la quinta inn walla walla
from sleepwalk with me posted in movies by corporate_sunshine
Comedian/playwright Mike Birbiglia recounts a particularly intense somnambulatory experience in his film Sleepwalk with Men, where he jumped through the second-story window of his hotel room at this La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, WA.
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