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academy of holy angels
from the replacements, paul westerberg posted in music by pete_nice
From Trouble Boys:
The Academy of the Holy Angels in Richfield, a first-tier suburb just south of South Minneapolis, had been all-girls school for most of its first century.
Founded in 1877 as an institution of learning for fledging nuns, it became a private day school in 1931. It began admitting boys in 1972. Paul Westerberg was a member of the second class that included males.
"I was a little hesitant to go 'cause it had been all-girls," he said. "But that also meant there was gonna be a lot of chicks there."
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from the replacements, paul westerberg posted in music by pete_nice
From Trouble Boys:
"Paul's first years were spent at 3734 Pleasant Ave, kitty-corner from the Church of the Incarnation, where Hal and Mary Lou had been married.
The house was within eyesight of the Catholic school Paul attended until he was a teenager."
view full location details...liberty motel
from logan posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The Aloha Motel outside of New Orleans was dressed to appear as the Liberty Motel where Logan first meets Laura / X-23 in 2017’s Wolverine movie Logan. The building’s signage recontextualizes Professor X’s statement about the Statue of Liberty earlier in the film which just sounded at the time like a confused old man ruminating about the adventures in the first X-men movie.
view full location details...where andre the giant died
from andre the giant posted in pro wrestling by nevereatshreddedwheat
On January 27, 1993, while he was in his home country of France to attend his father’s funeral, André Roussimoff, better known as Andre the Giant, died of a heart attack at the age of 46 in the room where he was staying at the Hotel de La Trémoille.
view full location details...rajneeshpuram
from intentional community, cults posted in history by pete_nice
From 1981 to 1985, the followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh built and lived in the city of Rajneeshpuram on the 64,000+ acres of the Big Muddy Ranch near the small town of Antelope, OR.
This became the subject of the 8-hour documentary, Wild Wild West. While the Rajneeshees religious practice and beliefs are generally glossed over, the film delves into (sometimes staggering) detail about the power dynamics between the community and the surrounding city, county, state, and federal governments, and eventually themselves.
Highlights include the first bio-attack in American history, mass transport of homeless people and blendered beavers.
Two thumbs up.
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