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karate kid’s apartment

from the karate kid posted in movies by pete_nice

This address is the apartment where Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) moves into with his mother. A beat-down apartment with a pool that has murky water in the bottom, the location only foments Daniel's status as the quintessential underdog.

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quality control album cover

from jurassic 5 posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat

The cover for Jurassic 5's album Quality Control was shot at the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. The tree stump that they have their headphones plugged into was either a prop or it's since been completely uprooted.

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narbonne high school

from frank black posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat

That Cult of Ray album cover is terrible. Why did I post that? Here is the Narbonne mascot. According to Frank Black himself: "They were called the Gauchos after the Argentinian Gauchos because, of course, the high school was called Narbonne High School after Narbonne, France." Makes sense.

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narbonne high school

from frank black posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV a.k.a Black Francis a.k.a Frank Black attended high school at Narbonne in the early '80s. A student Shazeb Andleeb was beaten to death here in 1995, the subject of the song The Last Stand Of Shazeb Andleeb off of Frank Black's third album The Cult of Ray.

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westwood memorial park

from marilyn monroe posted in movies by pete_nice

On August 8, 1962, Monroe was interred in a crypt at Corridor of Memories #24, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Lee Strasberg delivered the eulogy.

The crypt space immediately to the left of Monroe's was bought and reserved by Hugh Hefner in 1992.

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