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parsons junior high school (former)
from simon and garfunkel posted in music by donkeyoti
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel grew up in the same predominantly Jewish neighborhood Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York, just three blocks away from each other.
Friends throughout childhood, the two attended Parsons Junior High School together before they both went to Forest Hills High School.
Parsons Junior High School closed in 2007 and reopened as two schools: the Robert F. Kennedy Middle School and the Queens School of Inquiry.
view full location details...graffiti bridge
from prince posted in music by tacopolis
Near this intersection, the SW Regional LRT crosses over Valley View Road. For years, a bridge stood over Valley View that was perpetually coated with graffiti: messages for birthday congrats and wedding requests, drawings, and the occasional mural of Prince.
Prince (who lived in the area) must have appreciated it, because his follow-up to his smash film/album Purple Rain was the mediocre album/film Graffiti Bridge in 1990.
The bridge was removed in 1991, and was replaced with the clean and graffiti-free bridge that is there today.
Read a thorough history of Graffiti Bridge here.
view full location details...6 denmark terrace
from the kinks posted in music by donkeyoti
Ray and Dave Davies (of British rock band The Kinks) grew up in this North London home. Their parents used to throw parties in the front room, and the Davies brothers grew an appreciation for music, drinking and sing-alongs.
view full location details...“the church” (former)
from black flag posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
This is the former location of "The Church," a Hermosa Beach hub for the West Coast's early punk rock scene. The former Baptist church was in disrepair in the late 70s when the owners began to rent it out to musicians and artists. Black Flag used it as a practice space and Ron Reyes lived in the church after he took over as Black Flag's frontman in 1979.
A steakhouse, complete with graffitied walls intended to honor the punk spirit of the former location, now occupies the spot where the church used to be.
view full location details...lifestylez ov da poor & dangerous album cover
from big l posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
The photo on the cover of Big L's 1995 debut Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous was taken on the corner of Lenox Avenue and West 139th Street in Harlem.
On the album Big L calls 139 and Lenox the "Danger Zone," which I guess it is. In 1999 he was shot and killed during a drive-by not even a block away when he was only 24.
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