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samarkand hotel
from jimi hendrix posted in music by tacopolis
On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix went to the basement apartment of his girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, at this location (apartment #22).
Hendrix had taken 9 of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping pills to help him sleep. This particular brand of Belgian sleeping pill was a much stronger presciption then he was used to, and the mix of red wine and sleeping pills cause him to asphyxiate on his own vomit. He was 27 years old.
There are a number of the prerequisite conspiracy theories surrounding Hendrix's death, but those are the established facts.
view full location details...coletta’s italian restaurant
from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
Opened in 1923, Coletta's has been a Memphis institution for years. The King used to love to eat the famous barbeque pizza here (a pizza that Coletta's claims to have invented).
Today, there are two Coletta's in Memphis (this is the one that the King frequented).
view full location details...1034 audubon dr
from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
In 1956, Elvis bought this house at 1034 Audubon Dr for his family for $29,000 (after leaving their apartment at 1414 Getwell Rd).
The family lived there for just one year before Elvis bought Graceland. The house still stands today.
view full location details...former jimi hendrix boyhood home
from jimi hendrix posted in music by tacopolis
Originally located in the Central District, Al Hendrix bought a home at this location in 1950 with a $10 down payment.
Jimi Hendrix lived at this address from the ages of 10 to 13, when he first discovered music. Leon Hendrix (Jimi's younger brother by five years) remembers Jimi playing the Peter Gunn theme on a ukulele "because you could play it using only one string."
The home was originally moved to the Hi-Land Mobile Manor, a trailer park opposite to the Jimi Hendrix memorial at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, but the house was torn down in 2009 because financing couldn't be secured. The contents of the home (wood, bathtub, doors, etc.) have been put into storage for safe-keeping. Pictures of the pre-disassembled home can be seen here.
view full location details...memoryville
from the lost scrapbook, evan dara posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
—I mean, when I go into Rolla, to work at Memoryville—I do maintenance on the classic cars they got there, like before and after show runs and such—when I go there, and they all know I'm from here, I mean—
—I mean, they might not want to shake my hand—
—They might want, I don't know, to stay away from me—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 430
Former site of the Memoryville Antique Car Museum which closed in 2009.