Both Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic took music lessons at Rosevear's Music Center. A star can be found outside the store with Cobain's name, and a nearby fence surrounding a tree bears his silhouette.

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This address was the former location of the high school, also known as Aberdeen High School, that Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana attended. After Cobain dropped out, he worked briefly as a janitor at the high school.

On January 5, 2002, the Weatherwax wing of the high school burnt down. After investigation, it was revealed that a friend of Cobain's started the fire while trying to destroy school records.

A new high school was constructed at 410 N. G Street (two blocks away).

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In a white shack behind this residence, Kurt Cobain and Matt Lutkin lived from September 1986 to May 1987.

Nirvana began to take shape here as Cobain, bass player Chris Novoselic and their first drummer, Aaron Burckhard, used this space to practice.

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This is where Kurt Cobain went to elementary school. He was a musical child, singing along to The Ramones, The Beatles and Arlo Guthrie.

His parents divorced when he was nine years old, and Kurt's personality changed dramatically- becoming defiant and withdrawn.

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Kurt Donald Cobain was born at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington on February 20, 1967. He was born to a waitress, Wendy Elizabeth (née Fradenburg), and an automotive mechanic, Donald Leland Cobain.

Kurt would return to the hospital during homeless periods in his teenage years, when he figured out the hospital staff would ignore his sleeping in the waiting room.

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