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the adventures of tintin mural
from tintin, hergé posted in comic books by nevereatshreddedwheat
The Stockel Metro Station in Brussels features murals on either side of the underground station's walls showing all 140 characters from the The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was drawn by Hergé and completed by Studio Hergé, his longtime group of collaborators, in 1988.
You can see a full set of photos from the mural here.
tintin fire escape mural
from tintin, hergé posted in comic books by nevereatshreddedwheat
A five-story-tall scene from The Adventures of Tintin showing Haddock and Tintin on a fire escape is painted on the side of a building on Rue de l'Etuve in Brussels. It's located just down from the Manneken Pis sculpture, Brussels' famous landmark of a young boy pissing into a fountain.
The mural was painted in 2004 and comes from The Calculus Affair (#18 in the The Adventures of Tintin series), a 1950s cold war detective story about a sonic weapon of mass destruction.
view full location details...hôtel cornavin
from the adventures of tintin , the calculus affair posted in comic books by nevereatshreddedwheat
Hotel Cornavin as seen in The Calculus Affair, #18 in The Adventures of Tintin series.
Professor Calculus stays here while in Geneva, although if you visit you won't be able to stay in his room (room 122 on the fourth floor) because it doesn't actually exist.
view full location details...memoryville
from the lost scrapbook, evan dara posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
—I mean, when I go into Rolla, to work at Memoryville—I do maintenance on the classic cars they got there, like before and after show runs and such—when I go there, and they all know I'm from here, I mean—
—I mean, they might not want to shake my hand—
—They might want, I don't know, to stay away from me—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 430
Former site of the Memoryville Antique Car Museum which closed in 2009.
love canal
from the lost scrapbook, evan dara posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
—This is not Love Canal, Fobel then said and smacked the top of his lectern: there is no equivalent between that situation and ours, I heard him say—
—At Love Canal, the Hooker Chemical Corporation was found guilty of monstrous violations of the law, I heard him say—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 388
Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY, was the site of a toxic dump in the 1940s, although to be fair the Hooker Chemical Company had permission to dump waste into the canal and when the Niagara Falls School District wanted the land in 1953 to build a school, Hooker sold them the land for $1, because, you know, it was poisonous.
The city continued to build on the land, and in the 1970s, birth defects and a whole host of other health problems in the community started to appear. This mirrors what happens in The Lost Scrapbook in the fictional Missouri town of Isaura.