James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America's Pop Culture LandmarksPacked with historical information, this travel guide explores the sites where pop culture history was made. With hundreds of photographs, this encyclopedic resource covers approximately 600 sites of the most famous and infamous pop culture events. The greatest landmarks from Americana, movies, music, tragedy, crime, television, and sports are included, such as where George Washington crossed the Delaware River the diner in the film Diner the site of the Planet of the Apes finale the Hindenburg crash site the Brady Bunch house and the location of the 1980 Olympic "Miracle on Ice" hockey team victory. This offbeat travelogue provides the armchair traveler or road warrior tourist with all the information needed to visit America's pop culture sites of significance.--From publisher description. |
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... film about college students in 1959. Though it's been relocated from where it was used in the film , it still remains in Baltimore ( as the Hollywood Diner ) and can be seen in two other Levinson productions , Tin Men and Avalon . It ...
... film about college students in 1959. Though it's been relocated from where it was used in the film , it still remains in Baltimore ( as the Hollywood Diner ) and can be seen in two other Levinson productions , Tin Men and Avalon . It ...
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... film's psychiatrist . Recently , it was named one of the twenty greatest films by the American Film Institute , and remains only one of three films to sweep the top five categories at the Oscars ( the other two are It Happened One Night ...
... film's psychiatrist . Recently , it was named one of the twenty greatest films by the American Film Institute , and remains only one of three films to sweep the top five categories at the Oscars ( the other two are It Happened One Night ...
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... film star Norma Desmond ( played by Gloria Swanson ) lived in the 1950 classic , Sunset Boulevard . The gripping , caustic Billy Wilder film ( which also starred William Holden as a struggling screenwriter who winds up dead in the ...
... film star Norma Desmond ( played by Gloria Swanson ) lived in the 1950 classic , Sunset Boulevard . The gripping , caustic Billy Wilder film ( which also starred William Holden as a struggling screenwriter who winds up dead in the ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The Weird and the Wonderful | 13 |
History and Tragedy | 43 |
Copyright | |
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