On July 13, 1985, Live Aid was opened at Wembley Stadium by Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The 16-hour super-concert continued (via satellite) in Philadelphia, and was broadcast worldwide to a billion viewers in 110 countries.

The brainchild of The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof, Live Aid was a response to Geldof's 1984 trip to Ethiopia, where he witnessed the horrors of starvation during a famine that threatened to kill millions.

After the trip, Geldof called up his connections (Culture Club, Duran Duran, Phil Collins, U2, Wham!, and others) and recorded a song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" as a super-group called Band Aid. It raised $10 million for charity.

In the US, Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson recorded a response track with their buds: "We Are the World" raised $44 million.

Live Aid itself was an international success, raising $127 million by itself and shaming Western nations into shipping excess grain to Africa for immediate famine relief.

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Starting in the early 80's, Video Archives was a video rental store staffed by film fanatics that carried a diverse selection of films: Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, foreign films (organized by country, unheard of at that time), cult films and porn.

Quentin Tarantino worked at this video store while he wrote Reservoir Dogs. Co-writer of Pulp Fiction and director of Killing Zoe, Roger Avary, also worked at the store.

The long, film-obsessed conversations of the Video Archives employees were reworked and expanded into dialogue of Tarantino's films.

In the early 90's, Video Archives moved two doors down to 1808 Sepulveda. By early 1994, Video Archives had shut down for good.

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This is the location of Big Ed's Gas Farm from Twin Peaks, although the gas pumps have long been removed and the building has been remodeled. Across the street you'll find Ed and Nadine's house with the quiet drape runners.

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If you thought Creedence Leonore Gielgud's house looks more like a church, you're right! It is a church!
Built in 1898, this Mormon church was added to the Utah State Register of Historic Sites in 1971. More importantly, the church was filmed in 1989 for this cult classic.
The brick exterior is the sole remnant after a fire in 2000.

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On July 7th, 2012, Dennis Flemion, while on a family pontoon boat trip, went for a swim in Wind Lake and did not resurface. His body was recovered 3 days later in 42' deep water.

Flemion, percussionist of the homosexual group, The Frogs, was 57 years old.

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