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where bon scott died
from bon scott, ac/dc posted in music by tacopolis
On February 19, 1980, Bon Scott was drinking heavily at the London club Music Machine (now called KOKO). He was placed in a Renault 5 (a supermini car) by his acquaintance, Alistair Kinnear, at this address.
The next afternoon, Kinnear found a lifeless Scott in the car and alerted the authorities. He was brought to King's College Hospital in Camberwell where he was pronounced DOA. Pulmonary aspiration of vomit was the cause of Scott's death, and the official report listed "acute alcohol poisoning" and "death by misadventure."
After Scott's death, the band's next album was Back in Black. The album has sold 50 million copies to date, making it the 2nd highest-selling album of all time.
view full location details...bob dylan mural
from bob dylan posted in music by pete_nice
Located on the exterior wall of the Autographics business at this intersection is a Bob Dylan mural.
Designed by Sergey Trubetskoy (a University of Minnesota graphic design major) and financed by Autographics, this mural was completed in 2006. It was the first of a series of murals in the Dinkytown and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods that celebrate the 60's and 70's culture in the area.
view full location details...julian’s trailer in sunnyvale in season one
from trailer park boys posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
Julian's trailer is on Duggan Dr. in the Woodbine Mobile Home Park in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia where season one of Trailer Park Boys was filmed. Each of the first four seasons were filmed at different existing trailer parks in the Halifax-Dartmouth area. Seasons 5, 6 and 7 were filmed on a trailer park set (sadly, no longer around) in Dartmouth.
view full location details...george lucas plaza
from george lucas posted in movies by elvis_crabs
At the Five Points intersection in Modesto, CA (McHenry, Downey, Needham, 17th and "J"), the town paid tribute to their favorite son by dedicating a statue to American Graffiti and naming the intersection George Lucas Plaza.
Although it was shot in Petaluma, Lucas was raised in Modesto and based much of the California cruising culture in American Graffiti on his experiences there. When Lucas was a lad, this intersection marked the end of downtown and the beginning of the farmland that surrounded the city.
view full location details...roosevelt junior high school
from george lucas posted in movies by elvis_crabs
George "Jar Jar" Lucas went to middle school at Roosevelt Junior High School, home of the Rough Riders.
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