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tides wharf restaurant
from the birds, alfred hitchcock posted in movies by pete_nice
The 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds" had the majority of its exterior filming locations in the Bodega Bay area.
The restaurant used in a number of scenes was called The Tides Restaurant. Since renovated, the restaurant is still open and renamed The Tides Wharf Restaurant.
Apparently, Hitchcock hated shooting on location, and almost all interiors were shot in a studio.
view full location details...tiffany and co.
from breakfast at tiffany’s, audrey hepburn posted in movies by pete_nice
The 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's had many exteriors and interiors filmed at this location, the flagship store of Tiffany and Co.
Directed by Blake Edwards, the film was an adaptation of the 1958 novella by Truman Capote. The number of cultural references that have stemmed from this film are too numerous to list, but my personal favorite is Deep Blue Something's tune, "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's a toe-tapper.
view full location details...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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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.
view full location details...johnny cash’s boyhood home
from johnny cash posted in music by pete_nice
In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, his family settled at this home in Dyess, Arkansas.
Founded in 1934, Dyess was a planned community built as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, with streets laid out in a wheel pattern. The main purpose of the town's administration was to give poor families a chance to start over with land that they could work toward owning.
J.R. started working in the cotton fields at the age of five, singing with his family as he worked. The fields flooded at least twice, which later led to his song "Five Feet High and Rising".
Parts of the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line" were filmed in Dyess.
The boyhood home of Johnny Cash is now owned by Arkansas State University.
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