pop culture locations from movies, music, tv & more...
love canal
from the lost scrapbook, evan dara posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
—This is not Love Canal, Fobel then said and smacked the top of his lectern: there is no equivalent between that situation and ours, I heard him say—
—At Love Canal, the Hooker Chemical Corporation was found guilty of monstrous violations of the law, I heard him say—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 388
Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY, was the site of a toxic dump in the 1940s, although to be fair the Hooker Chemical Company had permission to dump waste into the canal and when the Niagara Falls School District wanted the land in 1953 to build a school, Hooker sold them the land for $1, because, you know, it was poisonous.
The city continued to build on the land, and in the 1970s, birth defects and a whole host of other health problems in the community started to appear. This mirrors what happens in The Lost Scrapbook in the fictional Missouri town of Isaura.
meramec caverns
from the lost scrapbook, evan dara posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
I mean, Meramec Caverns already gets lots of tourists—it's the largest cave formation in the world, for heaven's sake, and other people come to see it because it was where Jesse James hid, and because they have his hideout made up just like it was in the 1870's;
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 342
view full location details...tintin building
from tintin, hergé posted in comic books by nevereatshreddedwheat
The Tintin building (a.k.a. the Lombard building a.k.a. the Kuifje building) in Brussels, home of the Éditions du Lombard publishing house that published Tintin magazine (and the Dutch version Kuifje) from 1946-88.
On top of the building is an illuminated sign of Tintin and Snowy.
view full location details...alcor life extension foundation
from cryonics posted in technology by tacopolis
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is the largest cryonics organization in the world today. With 12 full-time employees, Alcor has 975 members with 112 members currently in a state of cryopreservation, with 76 of those members in a state of brain preservation, preserved perpetually by liquid nitrogen.
This is where the head of baseball player Ted Williams is preserved.
view full location details...the ambassador hotel
from the lost scrapbook, evan dara posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
—CBS flew us in on the following Saturday afternoon and put us up in the Ambassador Hotel—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 287
Former location of the Ambassador Hotel in Washington D.C. I'm not sure when this particular story was supposed to take place, but the Ambassador was torn down in 1979.
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