Opened on May 15, 1927, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has been featured in many TV shows, films, songs, and general Hollywood history.

The first Academy Awards were held in the Blossom Ballroom here in 1929.

Marilyn Monroe was a resident at the Hollywood Roosevelt for two years when her modeling career took off. Her first magazine shoot was taken on the diving board on the pool behind the hotel, which was recently removed. The hotel's remodeled pool contains an underwater mural painted by David Hockney. Her ghost is supposed to haunt Cabana Suite 229.

The hotel underwent a major renovation in 2005 and a nightclub named Teddy's in the main lobby.

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Singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson was walking back to his hotel room on August 12, 1973, when he saw a 19-year-old girl working in Rumpelmayer's ice cream parlor.

Una O'Keefe was working in NYC on a summer exchange program from Ireland with a friend. Nilsson walked up to the two of them, and told Una, "You have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. Will you marry me?"

Una and her friend demured, and Nilsson asked them how he could prove that he had good intentions. They said they liked flowers and melons (they had never had a honeydew melon).

Nilsson went back to his hotel room, sobered up, bought the melons, and then found a florist down at the docks who was preparing for a funeral. Nilsson returned to the ice cream parlor in a limousine, and lined up rows of flowers and melons on the street outside of the limo.

The two were married later, and Ringo Starr was the best man at their wedding.

*From the documentary Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talking About Him)?

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Bishop DuBourg High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis.

Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter and developer of the Square mobile device (ya know, that square thing on the cell phone that the people in the food trucks use), graduated from Bishop DuBourg in 1995.

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Although today it is a middle school, from 1930 to 1967 this location was a high school.

Elvis Presley graduated from Humes High School on June 3, 1953.

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On September 12, 1948, Mr. and Mrs. Presley moved with their son, Elvis, to this one bedroom apartment in Memphis after leaving Tupelo.

The family lived here until they moved to Lauderdale Courts on September 20, 1949.

The original building is no longer standing. Today, it's a vacant lot.

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