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from dr. seuss posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
Dr. Seuss's first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was published in 1937 after being rejected by over 30 publishers. It's about a boy named Marco who imagines a fantastic scene while on a walk to tell his father when he gets home, and it's based on the very ordinary Mulberry Street in Springfield, Massachusetts where Dr. Seuss grew up.
The house at 51 Mulberry was one of the oldest houses on the street dating back to around 1830. It was on the National Register of Historic Places, but it was demolished without permission in 1992.
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from peter gatien posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
The Atlanta Limelight was also a filming location for The Slugger's Wife directed by Hal Ashby.
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from peter gatien posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Peter Gatien opened the second of his Limelight disco nightclubs in the Buckethead neighborhood of Atlanta in 1980. This one featured two sharks under a glass dance floor. Gatien moved to New York in 1983 to open a Limelight club there and the Atlanta Limelight closed in 1985. It was located in a Piedmont strip mall and the Kroger grocery store next door was given the name "Disco Kroger." That grocery store has since been remodeled to a more Trader Joe's / Whole Foods type of store, but word is they kept the disco ball.
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from philip k. dick posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
Philip K. Dick lived in an apartment at 3028 Quartz Lane in Fullerton, California with his fifth wife Tessa from 1972 to 1976. Here, he drew from his time living at the "hermit house" to write A Scanner Darkly.
It was also here that he had the event that he would later refer to as 2-3-74 (for February-March 1974). While on sodium pentothal after having a wisdom tooth extracted, he had a bizarre religious experience triggered by the Jesus fish necklace worn by the girl delivering more pain medication. Later he claims he was told about his baby son's undiagnosed hernia (which it turned out he did have) while listening to "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles. He wrote about it endlessly in the eight million page Exegious and semi-fictionalized what he went through in his later books V.A.L.I.S. and Radio Free Albemuth.
university of massachusetts amherst
from the pixies posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
"In the sleepy west of the woody east..."
Charles Thompson (before he was Pixies singer/screamer/songwriter Black Francis/Frank Black) and Joey Santiago were suitemates at the University of Massachusetts in the early '80s. Thompson dropped out after the first semester of his junior year and went Puerto Rico, and when he returned to the U.S. several months later, he and Santiago moved to Boston. J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr. also was going to school at UMass at the time. He and Thompson met at some point, but it's only significant in retrospect when you imagine these two meeting, since they didn't necessarily hit it off.