When the Weinstein Bros moved Miramax from Buffalo to New York City, their first office (in the early 80's) was at this location on the corner of 56th and Broadway.

Miramax had a hit at this location with The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, a benefit concert for Amnesty International starring Monty Python and numerous musicians. During this time, the business acquired many international films and reworked them for the US market.

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Harvey and Bob Weinstein, founders of Miramax Films and independent film producers/zeitgeist-manufacturers, went to junior high at Campbell Junior High School 218.

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From 1960 to 1964, American actor and producer Harrison Ford attended Ripon College. Majoring in philosophy, Ford was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity and was active in the drama department and as a sports broadcaster.

After Ripon, Ford went to Los Angeles to do voice-over work for radio, but ended up doing a little acting.

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The writer/creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars was born at this address on September 1, 1875.

The fourth son of Civil War veteran and businessman Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913) and his wife Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920), Edgar Rice Burroughs attended several schools in the area until he left Chicago because of the influenza epidemic for his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho.

In the ensuing years, Burroughs was a soldier in the Arizona Territory, performed ranch work, and worked for his father's firm. In 1911, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and was reading a great deal of pulp fiction. It was at this point that he decided to begin writing.

As he stated: "...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."

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Located in the city of Cross Plains, TX is the family home (and current museum) of Robert "Bob" E. Howard, author of several fantasy and adventure stories and creator of "Conan the Barbarian."

A frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine, Howard was part of "The Lovecraft Circle", a group of fantasy writers who were influenced and encouraged through correspondence with Lovecraft.

Although Howard never had a book published in his lifetime, by the age of thirty he was consistently selling his stories to different magazines.

In 1936, upon hearing that his mother was entering a coma that she would not awake from, Howard went out to the car in the driveway of this location and shot himself in the head. He was thirty years old.

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