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hacienda de placitas inn and gallery

from breaking bad posted in television by chewing_the_scenery

As seen near the end of season 4 of Breaking Bad, first in Gus Fring's yellowed flashback and later during Fring's showdown with the cartel, the pool outside this bed and breakfast is where Don Eladio conducted business. It's not in Mexico but actually in Placitas, New Mexico north of Albuquerque.

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bishop dubourg high school

from jack dorsey, twitter, square posted in technology by tacopolis

Bishop DuBourg High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis.

Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter and developer of the Square mobile device (ya know, that square thing on the cell phone that the people in the food trucks use), graduated from Bishop DuBourg in 1995.

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woody creek tavern

from hunter s. thompson posted in literature by tree

Our friend was a bartender and served HST here.

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formerly, the elks club

from hunter s. thompson posted in literature by tree

Now a Prada store, this was the Elks club where HST and his clan called last-minute freak voters and watched the election results when he ran for sheriff of Aspen.

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the plaza hotel (formerly the mint)

from hunter s. thompson, fear and loathing in las vegas posted in literature by tree

I believe this was the mint hotel.

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