Dignan, Anthony and Bob hide out at this unnamed Hillsboro motel after the bookstore heist in Wes Anderson's first movie Bottle Rocket. The motel has changed ownership several times since filming, but it's currently a Days Inn.

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Hinckley Cold Storage, the cold storage facility (currently the Texas Ice House) that is the site of the botched robbery at the end of Bottle Rocket, is located in downtown Dallas. Turns out Wes Anderson fixture Kumar isn't so good at safe-cracking.

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Managed by Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, the Woody Guthrie Foundation and the Woody Guthrie Archives house the largest collection of Guthrie material in the world.

Researchers can apply to access the handwritten lyrics, notebooks, photographs, drawings, recordings, correspondence, manuscripts and much more. Billy Bragg used the Archives to research the material for the Mermaid Avenue project.

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Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967 while at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, New York. Guthrie had long suffered from the genetic neurological malady known as Huntington's disease. He was 55 years old.

Upon cremation, Guthrie's ashes were sprinkled into the waters off the Coney Island shore.

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The Italian Hall Disaster (also known as the 1913 Massacre) is a tragedy that occurred on December 24, 1913 in Calumet, MI.

On that Christmas Eve, the striking miners of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) had gathered with their families with the coordination of the Ladies Auxiliary of the WFM. At that time, the miners were five months into a strike with the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (C&H).

When someone falsely yelled "fire" at the crowded gathering, there was a stampede for the exit. Seventy-three men, women, and children (mostly striking mine workers and their families) were crushed to death.

There were accusations that union-busters were there and yelled "fire" to disrupt the gathering. Another accusation is that the door to the exterior was forced shut by company workers. There was never any evidence of a fire found.

The incident is recalled in the Woody Guthrie song "1913 Massacre", and the front arch from the Italian Hall still stands in this memorial park: Keweenaw National Historical Park.

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