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weaver d’s delicious fine foods
from r.e.m. posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
The sign over the front door of Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods in Athens, Georgia reads "Automatic For the People" inspiring the title of R.E.M.'s eighth album. The restaurant has been open for 26 years, but the owner says slow times have him on the verge of going out of business. Get over there for some soul food and show your support.
view full location details...jim cunningham’s house
from donnie darko posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The exteriors for motivational speaker / pedophile Jim Cunningham's house in Donnie Darko were shot in Long Beach. It didn't really burn down. That was just the magic of cinema.
view full location details...aero theatre
from donnie darko posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Here's the Aero theatre in Santa Monica where Jena Malone sleeps through her entire date with Donnie Darko and where Frank wormholes his way in next to them and finally reveals himself.
Donnie: Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
The theatre was built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1940 and the possibly apocryphal (is that redundant?) story is that it was open 24 hours for the Douglas Aircraft employees working around the clock during the war. It's still open and had a restoration in 2005.
view full location details...minuteman missile national historic site
from cold war, nuclear missiles posted in technology by tacopolis
During the Cold War, numerous missile silos were created throughout North America and the Soviet Union. The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is a preserved example of the operational missile sites, with nukes!
The sites were constructed in 1961. Part of the 44th Missile Wing, the D-01 and D-09 ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) silos were commissioned to deter a Soviet nuclear attack by ensuring mutual assured destruction (MAD).
Today, the facilities are a Cold War museum, and also represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that once consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles (35,000 km2) of southwestern South Dakota. The silos were decommissioned by the signing of the START treaty in 1991, and designated a national park in 1999.
view full location details...southern baptist church of holy light
from the walking dead posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
The creepy zombie church from season 2 episode 1. It's actually Bethel United Methodist.
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
– Revelation 16:17
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