tag: california

george lucas in modesto

Posted on August 20, 2012 by peter bell

On May 14, 1944, George Walton Lucas, Jr. was born in Modesto, CA. The son of a stationary store owner and a homemaker, Lucas lived in the area until he attended film school at USC. While never a stellar student during his primary education, Lucas absorbed the action/adventure TV shows of his youth and the […]

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Jim Morrison and The Doors locations

Posted on July 9, 2012 by peter bell

Forty-one years ago today, Jim Morrison was lowered into a Paris burial plot (on July 9, 1971). The Doors frontman would have been 68 years old if he were alive today, but instead died of a heroin overdose at the tender age of 27. Where once the Lizard King slithered across the country, spitting his […]

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Johnny Cash locations

Posted on June 12, 2012 by peter bell

Trying to tell the story of Johnny Cash’s life is like trying to shoehorn a tall-tale into a prefabricated narrative- you may get some of it into a tidy story, but the rest of it spills over and off the page (see the affably bland film, Walk the Line, as an exercise in sanitized myth […]

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