metro area: springfield, MA
mellow tiger bar (exterior)
from castle rock posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
This small building in Orange, MA, formerly a clothing store, became the exterior of the Mellow Tiger Bar for Hulu's Stephen King-inspired show set in the fictional town of Castle Rock. The bar's name is an easter egg reference to a bar in King's 1991 novel Needful Things.
Don't expect candlepin bowling inside. The interior bar with its two bowling lanes was likely filmed on a soundstage.
view full location details...mulberry street
from dr. seuss posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
Dr. Seuss's first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was published in 1937 after being rejected by over 30 publishers. It's about a boy named Marco who imagines a fantastic scene while on a walk to tell his father when he gets home, and it's based on the very ordinary Mulberry Street in Springfield, Massachusetts where Dr. Seuss grew up.
The house at 51 Mulberry was one of the oldest houses on the street dating back to around 1830. It was on the National Register of Historic Places, but it was demolished without permission in 1992.
view full location details...university of massachusetts amherst
from the pixies posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
"In the sleepy west of the woody east..."
Charles Thompson (before he was Pixies singer/screamer/songwriter Black Francis/Frank Black) and Joey Santiago were suitemates at the University of Massachusetts in the early '80s. Thompson dropped out after the first semester of his junior year and went Puerto Rico, and when he returned to the U.S. several months later, he and Santiago moved to Boston. J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr. also was going to school at UMass at the time. He and Thompson met at some point, but it's only significant in retrospect when you imagine these two meeting, since they didn't necessarily hit it off.