This house is WAY more important than being owned by Donald Fagen -- This is where Bob Dylan lived in the mid-late 60's, where he wrote much of The Basement Tapes which he partially recorded with The Band in that house (also in nearby Saugerties and Bearsville.)
"Veterans Field was originally a private park established for the lesiure of Sanford and Son (later known as Bigelow-Sanford), carpet and rug manufacturers.
After the company relocated its operations away from Amsterdam in the mid 1950s, the company donated the land to the City of Amsterdam, which renamed the park Veterans Field."
--City Historian
Why isn't "Atlanta Mission" the title of this map? I can go there today, can't I, to the Atlanta Mission? People worked there yesterday, they will be there next week and next month. But the building was featured in the TV show for what, 8 or 9 minutes?
There are tens of thousands of actual named places where TV shows and movies have been filmed . . . should each of those maps have the Show/Movie Name & Scene in the title? Perhaps the Brooklyn Bridge map should be renamed with...
Oh yeah, in some decade past that woulda been one of my favorite stores. I have this vague remembrance of walkin' by there a whole buncha years ago when I was in Portland for a weekend and gettin' lost half the time. But if I'm ever in town and suddenly need a pair of Doc Martens I'll know where to go!
Football's just not a big sport in Alaska, America version or the real version. It gets too cold too early, and too dark. Northern latitudes just aren't conducive to after-school practices and games when the temperature is at freezing or way below. Can't play during the summer -- that's baseball season! Low populations and long distances doesn't help either. In places they do try to live "regular" American, football-loving lives and this stadium is evidence of that.
Bird's Eye Views takes me right back to 8, 9, 10 years old going to school here, playing on the playgrounds, getting in trouble, going to the principal's office, playing nerf football before school on the street by the back path, all that good stuff. And then years later getting my Subaru stuck in the snow on the lower playground, driving where I shouldn't've been. Ah yeah, good times.
The DQ in my hometown had parts of an old barn incorporated into it. There was a stone floor and a gigantic old stone fireplace on one wall. Great 8th Grade hangout, plus the place to go after every Little League game.
Like lots of others, I've explored every part of this property. The old pavilion can easily be seen to the northeast. It's pretty frickin' big, way echoey inside with lots of graffiti.
A lot of old postcard scenes can be found on the interweb showing Pleasureland in its heyday. The next door neighbor Muller's Park survived until the late 80's but Pleasureland closed in the late 60's, I think, and has just sat abandoned to this day.
Even though Oakland is a small town, this bridge is not in the part of town I went to very much, actually hardly ever at all. Nevertheless, I've been across the old bridge on my bike, and under it in my dad's small motorboat, but was too young to know and appreciate the historicity of it.
And I swear right by the bridge, right by the river, there once was a semi-slimy tavern that was a good place to get a case of beer after all the liquor stores closed (since liquor stores...
I think my dad used to get our cars fixed here when I was a kid. It's on the edge of town so I hardly ever went there. But going from Oakland to Pompton Lakes or skiing up in Vernon, it was part of the drive.
I haven't lived in Oakland for about 15 years but while downtown now has Starbucks and Walgreens, this little part of town has seemingly not changed at all. Until recently.
Awesome truck, not an SUV, a truck! I drove one briefly, a '91, whipped around the snowy winter of western Montana in it. About 8 miles to the gallon but what the heck, gas was only a buck and change per gallon back then.
Two buildings to the direct west??? Ummm? To the Southwest perhaps? They kinda do look like bomber planes but was that intentional? Or just using imagination? While the middle portion looks like a traditional plane, the outer wings kinda give the design a TIE fighter sort of look. If they wanted to give the appearance of bombers attacking the Nazis, why put the TIE fighter wings on?
I was just scanning this area of Texas and found this. Never knew about it before. That's one of the coolest things I've ever just happened upon. 2.5 miles? Maaaaan.......
I love this truck. Back when trucks had electric rear windows and when no one drove an "SUV", I had one just like this. Got it stuck in mud, stuck in snow, stuck in sand and basically beat the living crud out of it . . . but it kept on tickin'!
The engine for a Volkswagen Type II a.k.a. a VW Bus a.k.a. the vehicle in this map is in the rear a.k.a. where that person is "looking." No, nothing was lost, this is called Fixing The Engine.
Doesn't "stubborn" have a negative connotation? I'd call it a determined standoff. No human being should ever have to give up land he rightfully owns, especially when government "condemns" buildings that are probably perfectly fine. "This nail is out of place, this molding is an inch too short" is not reason to condemn but government will use such tactics to get what they want.
Interestingly, I (and millions of others) have walked right over that triangle but probably never...
Groovy. I found all there is about not getting the zoning but for some reason I thought maybe some dude built it anyway and it wasn't allowed to open to the public. I've gotta remember to use the keyword "speedway" next time. And RC I'm not familiar with so I'll remember that, too. Nice work finding info.
I can't believe that's the body of '56 Caddy Eldorado. I'm not as knowledgeable about cars as I once was and I immediately did not question whether it could be a Cadillac because some people would give their first-born child for that! A plain old Chevy okay, but who in their right mind would do that to a Cadillac?! Also the tailfins on the Series 62 and Deville Caddys are different than the Eldorado which is very close to that of a Chevy.
I thought from the start that the two bigger tracks were go-kart and bmx. But the description for Sun Valley Motocross was three size tracks. So I thought maybe the BMX looking one is actually motocross and the tiny one is for the youngest kids. Or maybe the biggest one is for the youngest kids with lots of room for them to more easily maneuver and fall down and not get run over. I dunno.
For at least one night this is a professional basketball stadium. October 9, 2010, the Dallas Mavericks are playing the Phoenix Suns here. You don't usually get to see blimp views of an NBA game so this is kinda neat.
I know it's not the same countries but this reminds me of the episode of I Love Lucy when the Mertzes and Ricardos are bicycling in Europe and Lucy gets stuck at the border station because she can't find her passport. HAA!!! That Lucy!!!
Those terms were acceptable once within medical circles and even in society as a whole; they were acceptable even in Evangelical circles for it was men of God who approved using the word "Idiot" in 1892. Ugly words and terms (and worse -- ideas of man) are a real part of the past. Yes, they would be offensive if used today but to pretend those terms didn't once exist would be wrong.
I honor your organization and all you do but you can't change history. Those terms were included...
Not yet Under Construction in the most recent Google imagery . . . but I guess next time it's updated, the parking lot imagery will be a shiny brand new stadium.
Man, they really crammed this thing into a small space!
I've driven through there so many times. The best is at like 4 a.m. and you can easily get up to around 100 (160 km/h) with no traffic to worry about . . . ahhh, that was fun being young and stoopid. Eventually I learned it was cheaper to park in Hoboken and take the train under the Hudson.
BEV is pretty cool. What's the status of this place? Almost 2 dozen buildings completely abandoned? There are some cars by a couple buildings so is it today a ghost town or what?
I have many fond memories of this place from when it was called Garden State Arts Center. Saw lotsa concerts here . . . but I never knew the roof was circular. Kinda interesting!
This map's description needs to be changed. Mr. Curtis has sadly passed away.
Other than Some Like It Hot, I've never treasured his films like I have the films of other actors of his time . . . but he truly was an exceptional actor.
...which was filmed at his home including on the rooftop with a spectacular view of the NashVegas skyline a few miles in the distance. (Country music fan or not, it's a fun video, check it out!)
Wow. I once lived about 7 or 8 miles from here. Went to the races a couple times. I can't believe the site recently sat abandoned for several years. But it looks like it might be on its way to making a comeback.
All gone. Amazing. How many tracks like this are left in America? And will half of those will be bulldozed in the next 10 years, to be replaced by yet more development?
Yes, it is. But BEV, methinks, doesn't work well at all for this location (and many like it.) Even with a campus as small as this, what one little part of it would you use to represent the map in BEV????????????????
Oh darn, I wanted to add this one. This is one of my personal favorites in NYC. I've walked out of this place many a mornin' when the sun was already on its way up for the day. My friends and I would take the PATH train from Christopher Street back to Hoboken and drink a final beer whilst gazing across the Hudson towards the World Trade Center.
I haven't seen it in years so I could be wrong but I think the Batmobile is seen driving out the other opening and not the opening in the image here. (The "cave" is actually a tunnel.)
Parts of East St. Louis are apocalyptic-like, an abandoned wasteland, almost like nothing else I've ever seen in America. Interesting exploring on foot.
The link provided above talks about a Christmas Day 2003 crash of a jetliner shortly after takeoff from the main airport in Benin . . . which is about 1,000 miles away from the location in this map.
This plane is not that plane. This flight did not end with a crash.
I remember a time when a sports fan (like myself) could easily have memorized the names of all professional stadiums and arenas in America and Canada for baseball, football, hockey and basketball. Today it's not as easy. Bridgestone? I didn't even know this name existed and I wonder how long before it has a new name. It's just not right.
The odds of a jetliner crashing are so small. The odds of a satellite catching imagery of it happening?
If this plane is upside down and about to plunge into the ocean or into nearby land, everyone will die. I can't find a story of such a crash, not in Angola.
If it is a game, it appears to be between innings, or maybe it's pre-game practice. Whatever it is, it looks like there are about 22 people in the stands . . . and that's no exaggeration. Even if they're in last place, minor league teams, even A ball, get more fans than that.
Out with the old, in with Villa Rich. Seriously, that's the home's name. Apparently there was some controversy about Mr. Rich's home, some calling it a hideous monstrosity. It's only 3 stories tall but stands a whopping 73 feet. What you can't tell from satellite imagery is that Love Circle is on a significant hill and the house/super-structure is supposed to have a GORGEOUS view of Nashville.
Wow, seriously, this is in Indiana??! The show took place maybe an hour from downtown Chicago, Illinois . . . which technically could be in Indiana but the Connor clan probably lived out west or southwest of the city.
This was one of those quirky mysterious Mormon-related places in and around Salt Lake City when I lived there in the 90's. It's located in Little Cottonwood Canyon, on the way to Snowbird and Alta, where I skied over 100 times a year; I used to drive by it all the time and that's how I became aware of it bein' there. It just warms my heart knowing 10,000 years from now, Mormons will have their family histories intact.
These are all over East Texas. A lot of 'em are 2 or 3 football fields long. This is gas and lumber country but there's also a Tyson (chicken processing) plant in the area.
At Christmastime, lots of these boathouses on the Schuylkill have Christmas lights that reflect off the river. I remember a nice calming feeling as I drove my old, noisy VW bus along the water.
"Frist Campus Center is a focal point of social life at Princeton University. The campus center is a combination of the former Palmer Physics Lab, and a modern addition completed in 2001. It was endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family (who count among them Dr. Bill Frist '74, former Senate Majority Leader) has made in the private hospital business."
"This building has also been used for external shots of the...
Maybe but a Google search for that exact phrase turns up 1 listing, now 2 with this VG entry. I spent about an hour using all sorts of keywords and came up blank. That's got to be it, though.
I wonder when that property was last used. Something that fascinates me is that is has not been bulldozed and built upon with a new, shiny, soulless suburban sprawldivision . . . not yet.
Never drive over this at around midnight (or anytime after dark!) Because I was driving through late at night, I missed seeing this amazing place the only time I was there. So stoopid of me but oh well.
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After the company relocated its operations away from Amsterdam in the mid 1950s, the company donated the land to the City of Amsterdam, which renamed the park Veterans Field."
--City Historian
There are tens of thousands of actual named places where TV shows and movies have been filmed . . . should each of those maps have the Show/Movie Name & Scene in the title? Perhaps the Brooklyn Bridge map should be renamed with...
The DQ in my hometown had parts of an old barn incorporated into it. There was a stone floor and a gigantic old stone fireplace on one wall. Great 8th Grade hangout, plus the place to go after every Little League game.
A lot of old postcard scenes can be found on the interweb showing Pleasureland in its heyday. The next door neighbor Muller's Park survived until the late 80's but Pleasureland closed in the late 60's, I think, and has just sat abandoned to this day.
And I swear right by the bridge, right by the river, there once was a semi-slimy tavern that was a good place to get a case of beer after all the liquor stores closed (since liquor stores...
I haven't lived in Oakland for about 15 years but while downtown now has Starbucks and Walgreens, this little part of town has seemingly not changed at all. Until recently.
Patty & Selma drive one on The Simpsons.
4 rescuers still down below but after 69 days, all the miners are now out!
Interestingly, I (and millions of others) have walked right over that triangle but probably never...
I can't believe that's the body of '56 Caddy Eldorado. I'm not as knowledgeable about cars as I once was and I immediately did not question whether it could be a Cadillac because some people would give their first-born child for that! A plain old Chevy okay, but who in their right mind would do that to a Cadillac?! Also the tailfins on the Series 62 and Deville Caddys are different than the Eldorado which is very close to that of a Chevy.
LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Haskins_Center
Maybe this should be renamed because this map is actually a building called "Two Fifty Five East 74" -- http://www.255east74.com
I honor your organization and all you do but you can't change history. Those terms were included...
Man, they really crammed this thing into a small space!
I've driven through there so many times. The best is at like 4 a.m. and you can easily get up to around 100 (160 km/h) with no traffic to worry about . . . ahhh, that was fun being young and stoopid. Eventually I learned it was cheaper to park in Hoboken and take the train under the Hudson.
BEV is pretty cool. What's the status of this place? Almost 2 dozen buildings completely abandoned? There are some cars by a couple buildings so is it today a ghost town or what?
The bend in this map is called Mule Hoof Bend. The canyon begins here and the Salt River flows through it to the Northwest.
Other than Some Like It Hot, I've never treasured his films like I have the films of other actors of his time . . . but he truly was an exceptional actor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlqwP7Cy70g
...which was filmed at his home including on the rooftop with a spectacular view of the NashVegas skyline a few miles in the distance. (Country music fan or not, it's a fun video, check it out!)
http://www.livenation.com/San-Manuel-Amphitheater-formerly-Glen-Helen-Pavilion-tickets-Devore/venue/73734
new current name: San Manuel Amphitheater (named after a band of Mission Indians or more specifically after their corporate Indian Bingo & Casino.)
This plane is not that plane. This flight did not end with a crash.
If this plane is upside down and about to plunge into the ocean or into nearby land, everyone will die. I can't find a story of such a crash, not in Angola.
If it is a game, it appears to be between innings, or maybe it's pre-game practice. Whatever it is, it looks like there are about 22 people in the stands . . . and that's no exaggeration. Even if they're in last place, minor league teams, even A ball, get more fans than that.
"Frist Campus Center is a focal point of social life at Princeton University. The campus center is a combination of the former Palmer Physics Lab, and a modern addition completed in 2001. It was endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family (who count among them Dr. Bill Frist '74, former Senate Majority Leader) has made in the private hospital business."
"This building has also been used for external shots of the...
Anyway, good work, milwhcky. Formerly the Cumberland County Fairgrounds. I'm still amazed it hasn't been turned into a subdivision.
I wonder when that property was last used. Something that fascinates me is that is has not been bulldozed and built upon with a new, shiny, soulless suburban sprawldivision . . . not yet.
Built in 1960 - Demolished in 2008.