Post the address of a famous place & see if anyone knows what the place is W/O using Google

[red dog 1]

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[soothsayer]

1. The basement of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

[red dog 1]

3. A torture chamber?

(Or a well-fortified bunker)

[soothsayer]

5. Only if you're scared of being scared of free speech! Hint:

It’s where you usually hit the ball on the courses you own.

[red dog 1]

6. a sand trap?

(He's a lousy golfer)

[soothsayer]

7. You are red hot! It's a synonym

[soothsayer]

10. You won above! I missed the parenthetical

[soothsayer]

9. Drag! I missed the second and CORRECT part of your answer

You win!

[rsdsharp]

2. Wrigley Field

[red dog 1]

4. You got it!

[Brother Buzz]

23. .

[Sneederbunk]

8. 79 Wistful Vista

[Binkie The Clown]

12. Isn't that just down the street from the corner of 14th and oak? nt

I used to listen to that show every week when I was a kid. (yes, I really am that old)

[rurallib]

14. I listen to their show every night at bedtime

Fibber McGee and Molly

[Mendocino]

11. 2640 Steiner St.

SF CA

[bluecollar2]

44. I should know that

But guessing...

Transamerica Pyramid?

On edit. Not even close...lol

[red dog 1]

48. I'll make a wild guess here....The "Mrs. Doubtfire" house?

(I used to live in that neighborhood)

[Mendocino]

58. Yes

Try this one-1199 Clay St. SF

[smirkymonkey]

54. I used to live right around the corner from there about four blocks down on

Fillmore and Washington. Very familiar with the house. It was a nice neighborhood.

[red dog 1]

64. Pacific Heights?

[smirkymonkey]

65. Yes, I just rented an apartment. I didn't own a home.

It was a nice neighborhood.

[red dog 1]

66. Me too...I rented a furnished studio apartment right around the corner from the Mrs. Doubtfire house

[smirkymonkey]

67. I lived there when rents were still quite reasonable - about 20 years ago.

So you could live in a nice neighborhood and still have some money left over to live on!

[red dog 1]

69. Same here...It was a long time ago....I also once lived on the 1900 block of Sacramento Street

which is also Pacific Heights.
(I never should have moved out of that one...possibly the best living situation I ever had)

[smirkymonkey]

70. Really? That's funny. Before I moved to Washington and Filmore, I lived on the

2000 block of Sacramento Street, right on Lafayette Park! I went back to grad school so I moved into the smaller studio over on Washington. What a coincidence!

[red dog 1]

73. Wow, that is a coincidence!

You lived one block down from 2151 Sacramento Street, (which I walked by many times), right across from Lafayette Park, that has a plaque out front saying:
"This house, built in 1881, was once occupied by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"

(Turns out, Arthur Conan Doyle never lived there, only visited a friend there once)



(I lived at 1958 Sacramento Street)

[Binkie The Clown]

13. 1750 N. Vine (I worked in that building in the 60s). nt

[consider_this]

15. Capitol record building?

[Binkie The Clown]

17. That's the one.

Got my first job as a computer programmer there in 1967. The computer, a big old IBM 360 was across the parking lot in a different building, though.

[consider_this]

18. Yikes - re computer.

Is that the sort of kind you had to program by running through punch cards?

[Binkie The Clown]

22. Yup. Punch cards rule. 2000 cards to the box and each box weighed about 6 pounds.nt

[yonder]

16. 77 Sunset Strip or just an old TV show?

I have no idea if its a real place or not.

[jmowreader]

38. It's not a real address

I did a little legwork. According to the Wiki page for the show "77 Sunset Strip," their offices were in a stylish building on the south side of Sunset Boulevard, between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road. Both those roads exist IRL. Between them is the 8500 block of Sunset Boulevard. There is a very stylish building on the south side of that block; it is currently a hotel.

Also, the lowest address you could possibly have on Sunset is 4000.

Given that, "77 Sunset Strip" sounds much better than "8516 Sunset Strip."

[yonder]

43. Interesting and thanks for the heavy lifting.

[JustGene]

19. 2700 S California Ave CHI

Grew up in Wrigleyville.
(Before it was called that)

[consider_this]

20. I'm guessing Cook Cty Jail?

[JustGene]

28. Yep-

Good spot for rump
(I've heard)

[consider_this]

29. I guessed cuz...

once upon a time had a jury duty down there and the court was right by the jail. Plus i couldn't thing of anything else of note on California.

[JustGene]

32. I don't remember much on

California either.

[elleng]

100. I WORKED at the jail,

first job after college (before law school!) Legal services.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

21. 270 Broadway, NYC

BTW: you wouldn't be a fan of Jake and Elwood would you?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

59. 270 Broadway, NYC

Does no one know of anything Manhattan is famous for?
Anything maybe that was named after Manhattan?

[Brother Buzz]

24. 891 Post Street, San Francisco, California

[red dog 1]

68. Does it have anything to do with "The Maltese Falcon"?

If so, is it where Bogart's partner was killed?

[Brother Buzz]

71. Well, yes, but I don't know if anyone was murdered there

It was Dashiell Hammett's address when he wrote the Maltese Falcon. It was also Sam Spade's address. My mother always pointed to the building when we drove past (my parents lived on Post way back in the day; Mom knew every landmark mentioned in the book).

[red dog 1]

72. Never knew that, thanks.

I was thinking that Bogie's partner (Miles Archer?) might have been killed there, because he was shot somewhere nearby.

[Brother Buzz]

74. Yes, Archer was murdered in an ally on my parents block...

two blocks from Hammett's apartment.

It is said the plaque is best viewed on a foggy night to absorb the ambiance.

[Mendocino]

78. Do you know 63 Ellis St SF?

[Brother Buzz]

80. A restaurant?

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or perhaps a bar? A given name is stuck in my head, but I can't retrieve it. Any Help?

On edit: I know it now. I was stuck on Jack's, and I know it's not on Ellis.

I never ate at John's grill. It sounds like a cool chop house, but it looks to upscale these days. I wonder what it was like in the '30's.

[LakeArenal]

25. I bet almost as famous as 1600..

742 Evergreen Terrace.

[Demovictory9]

198. Dont know it

[LakeArenal]

199. Simpson's address. .

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

26. 20601 Bohemian Avenue Monte Rio, California

[Brother Buzz]

33. Bob Weir is a member

Wrap your head around that.

[red dog 1]

47. Unbelievable!

[Brother Buzz]

50. He justifies his membership in a most righteous, and totally Bob Weir fashion

There's sort of an unwritten, yet a hard and fast membership rule, "No jerks".

[red dog 1]

51. Thanks for that

[red dog 1]

46. Bohemian Grove?

(I once saw Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland driving up that road headed for the Bohemian Grove)

(We were coming out of a restaurant with others and Bronson had to slow down)

[virgogal]

27. 122 Bowdoin St.,Boston

[consider_this]

30. ok, based on your avatar

I'm going with Fenway Park. Been there, but cannot recall the address.

[jmowreader]

37. Fenway Park is on Jersey Street

...which used to be Yawkey Way, until the Boston City Council decided to remove Tom Yawkey's name from the street.

No...this has to do with one of our best presidents.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

41. john adams?

[yewberry]

75. That was JFK's Boston address.

He kept his apartment there until he died.

[virgogal]

77. Good for you.

[consider_this]

31. how about 1000 5th Avenue

[First Speaker]

34. Fictional address--922 West 35th Street

[petronius]

35. Nero Wolfe? Although he seemed to move quite a bit, deending on which book... (nt)

[First Speaker]

40. Yes!

...but in The Silent Speaker, Archie had a card with the "922" number on it, so I figured this was canonical. Of course, this would put the brownstone in the middle of the Hudson River...

[jmowreader]

36. 1060 W. Addison Street is Elwood Blues' address

He falsified his license renewal and put down the street address for Wrigley Field.

Which leads to the next question: How in hell did the Illinois Nazis NOT know what that address was before they went out to kill Jake and Elwood?

[red dog 1]

45. Because Nazis are dumb!

(Especially if their leader is Henry Gibson)

[jmowreader]

39. 5880 Highway 67 South, Florence, CO

[Tikki]

42. 4160 Country Club Drive, Shermer IL

Tikki

[Totally Tunsie]

60. Bueller? Bueller?

[Tikki]

61. Yes

Tikki

[Doug.Goodall]

49. Nice place

https://wxyzwebcams.com/en/webcam-1374.php

[red dog 1]

52. 221 B Baker Street, London, England

[sinkingfeeling]

53. Sherlock Holmes' flat.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

55. No 3 Abbey Road in St John's Wood

[red dog 1]

173. The Beatles Abbey Road studios?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

175. correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studios

Now also at the site is:

In March 2015, Abbey Road Institute was founded as a school for music production and audio engineering. In addition to the London location, Abbey Road Institute offers education globally with schools in Berlin, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris and Melbourne. Students can study an Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering which has been developed in collaboration with industry leaders and the team at Abbey Road Studios.

[Mendocino]

56. 10050 Cielo Dr.

LA

[red dog 1]

62. Either the Tate or La Bianca house where that homicidal maniac Charles Manson sent his killers?

[Mendocino]

79. Yes

The Tate/Polanski home

[Mendocino]

57. 171 Lake Washington

Seattle WA

[yewberry]

76. Lake Washington Blvd?

Was that where Kurt Cobain died?

[Mendocino]

94. Yes!

[Tikki]

81. "Sleepless In Seattle"?

Tikki

[Mendocino]

92. The house of

Kurt Cobain.

[red dog 1]

63. 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA

[Tikki]

82. 7011 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles CA

Tikki

[red dog 1]

83. 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico

[Mendocino]

87. The Whitehouse

[red dog 1]

91. Correct!

(Walter and Skyler White's house)

[red dog 1]

84. 263 Prinsengracht, Amsterdam

[LNM]

124. Anne Frank House? nt

[red dog 1]

127. You got it!

(I'd like to go there some day)

[red dog 1]

85. 518 Crestview Drive, Beverly Hills, CA

[red dog 1]

86. 0001 Cemetery Lane

[Mendocino]

88. The Addams Family

[red dog 1]

89. Absolutely!

[red dog 1]

90. 565 N. Clinton Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[Mendocino]

93. The Cunningham house?

[red dog 1]

96. Yep

[Mendocino]

95. 58909 Apple Rd.

Boone CO

[red dog 1]

172. Boones' Farm?

[Mendocino]

174. "Vicky...

...can I help you with the koolaid...please?"

[red dog 1]

97. 4222 Clinton Way, Los Angeles, CA

[Niagara]

99. The Brady Bunch house.

[red dog 1]

101. You got it!

[red dog 1]

98. 1049 Park Avenue, New York, NY

[red dog 1]

102. 2425 7th Avenue, Hibbing, Minnesota

[Mendocino]

105. Bob Dylan house

[red dog 1]

110. Ding!

[red dog 1]

103. 705 Houser Street, Queens, New York

[Mendocino]

106. The Bunker house

[red dog 1]

109. Yep!

[red dog 1]

104. 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

115. Empire State Building?

[red dog 1]

126. Ding!

[Mendocino]

107. 56 Parnassus Saugerties NY

[AngryOldDem]

108. 119 N. Weatherly

[red dog 1]

111. 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale, CA

[Mendocino]

113. 665 Laurel Canyon LA

[LNM]

125. LaBianca house?

[Mendocino]

147. The home of Joni Mitchell

and Graham Nash, where Our House was written.

[red dog 1]

114. 1313 Webfeet Walk, Duckburg, Calistoga

[Brother Buzz]

121. Factoid: All residents of Calistoga are University of Oregon fans

[red dog 1]

123. Of course...the Oregon Ducks.

(Better than the U.C. Santa Cruz Banana Slugs)

[red dog 1]

116. 11 Wall Street, New York, NY

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

119. N.Y. Stock Exchange?

[red dog 1]

122. You got it!

[red dog 1]

117. 213 Park Avenue South, New York, NY

[red dog 1]

118. 9114 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

[red dog 1]

120. 1403 Gough Street, San Francisco, CA

(Hint:A famous poet lived there)

[Brother Buzz]

132. Before Gough Street, he lived with Zen poet Gary Snyder in Homestead Valley, Mill Valley, Calif.

That is, when he wasn't hanging out at 'Druid Heights', Muir Woods, Mill Valley, or the ferryboat, Vallejo, in Sausalito.

Pretty much the entire cast of the Dharma Bums luminaries hung at the Homestead house at one time, or another.

[red dog 1]

133. Very interesting!

Where exactly is "Homestead Valley" in Mill Valley?

What part of MV is it in?

[Brother Buzz]

135. Driving up Miller Ave towards downtown Mill Valley, you hang a left at the Two am Club

Here's the inside of the Deuce:



The best you can say about Homestead Valley is that it's rustic, not unlike Laurel Canyon in Southern California.

Huey Lewis lived there until the dough started rolling in, and the unstable David Crosby lived there, too. That is, until he and the police came to an agreement (the gunshot incident was all a misunderstanding), and he moved on. Dan Hicks lived there for a million years, right up until his death. All three were regulars at the Deuce back in the glorious days.

[red dog 1]

136. A buddy of mine loved briefly in a rooming house in SF with Dan Hicks, way back in the '60s

Dan Hicks used to fry potatoes with onions, and called it "Potatoes Delight"

(According to Wikipedia, he died of throat and liver cancer at age 74)

Also, I didn't know that he lived in Santa Rosa and later went to San Francisco State University
(my alma mater)

[Brother Buzz]

138. That Potato dish is comfort food, Baby....

straight out of his Arkie cultural background.

I think it's fair to say the 'City' proved to be to much of a tease and distraction for him to have genuinely applied himself at SF State.

[red dog 1]

140. Well, he did get a B.A. in Broadcasting from SF State University

My guess is that the first place he lived in when he moved down to SF from Santa Rosa was the "rooming house" where he made Potatoes Delight

He played drums in grammar school and played the snare drum in his high school marching band.
After graduating from high school he attended Santa Rosa Junior College, earned an AA degree, and then transferred to SF State where he got his B.A. in 1965, and formed "Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks" 2 years later.

I remember him being on a couple of Fillmore Auditorium posters, and I saw him once, at the Fillmore Auditorium (or Fillmore West)
I also saw him once at The Boardinghouse (SF)

I remember him coming on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
I think he did "Where's the Money?"

I was, and still am, a big fan of his.
(He died too young, imo)

[Brother Buzz]

141. He played drums for the The Charlatans before Dan Hicks & The Hot licks

The Charlatans were arguably the first psychedelic band

Oh, but to invent a time machine and visit The Red Dog Saloon in Virginia city, Nevada, where the whole San Francisco sound movement was Beta tested.The Charlatans were the house band, but a boatload of Bay Area talent played there. One really cool factoid: Janis Joplin officially hooked up with Big Brother and the Holding company at the Red Dog Saloon.

[red dog 1]

142. There's a movie out called "The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon" (1996)

Featuring The Charlatans (with Dan Hicks,) Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Great Society and others.

(It sounds like it's worth seeing)

[Brother Buzz]

144. There's another one out there

Or is it that same film under a different title?

It blows me away how many of the people in the film I've met over the years; the connection between Southern Marin and the Red Dog Saloon was strong.

[red dog 1]

145. Same film

Different title

[red dog 1]

137. Thanks for that info about Homestead Valley

[Brother Buzz]

139. Boy howdy, I just looked at Homestead Valley on Google satellite and it totally flipped

Looks like every single cabin and bungalow has been torn down and replaced with a fucking McMansion.

Times Have Been Better

[Mendocino]

148. Back in 07

I ran into Lawrence Ferlinghetti, while at City Lights. He turned 101 last spring.

I am the door.

[Brother Buzz]

149. And I believe the poet in question visited City Light often to pester Lawrence Ferlinghetti....

about his sales.

Ferlinghetti built an institution, for sure. I don't know what it's like today, but back in the day, no trip to the 'City' was really complete without a visit to the The City Lights bookstore.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was no stranger at Druid Heights.

[targetpractice]

129. 1164 Morning Glory Circle

[Niagara]

195. Bewitched.

[targetpractice]

197. Yup! n/t

[targetpractice]

131. One Infinite Loop

[red dog 1]

134. 1619 Pine Street, Boulder, Colorado (fictional)

[Harker]

146. Mork and Mindy's house.

I lived at 2204 Pine at the time.

[red dog 1]

153. I loved Mork & Mindy!

[Harker]

154. I was a little hot for Mindy...

but I was ambivalent about Mork.

Once I figured out that the blocks long lines of tourists weren't lining up for me... well... pfffft.

[red dog 1]

156. I had a crush on her too.

I also had a huge crush on Jan Smithers (WKRP) around that time.

[Harker]

159. Damn.

We're like brothers.

[Harker]

158. I tackled a peeping Tom from the 1500 block

and held him in a full Nelson til the Boulder Police Dept. arrived, ca. 1979.

[red dog 1]

161. Did you sneak up from behind while he was peeping?

[Harker]

162. I was bench pressing in the back yard at night

and I heard the gate creak.

I bull-rushed him and he ran for it.

I had a good-looking girlfriend, and he was trying to get a good look through the blinds.

He never had a chance.

[red dog 1]

163. Great story!

[Harker]

164. There's more.

[red dog 1]

165. I'd like to hear more

(I got all day)

[Harker]

166. A few weeks after Mr. Huckabee

was arrested, I was lifting weights in the back yard again at about midnight, and I heard the gate creak again.

Wearily, I tackled the trespasser again, getting him in a headlock, but when I went to take him down, his head popped out. Rather than leaving, he stepped toward me, so I punched him repeatedly in the face.

Then he ran, and I (thinking it was the same guy) chased him to a nearby alley, where he picked up a nail-studded 2x4 and said something like, "you fuck with me, I'll fucking fuck you up, motherfucker", at which point I said, "okay... (heave, heave) you win this time but don't come.back."

Different guy.

[red dog 1]

143. 454 West 20th Street, Manhattan, New York

[Brother Buzz]

150. 624 Commercial Street, San Francisco, California

[red dog 1]

151. 1020 Palm Drive, Cocoa Beach, Florida

[red dog 1]

152. 704 Hauser Street, Astoria

[Harker]

155. Archie and Edith's place.

[red dog 1]

157. Ding!

The Bunker's bunker

[Harker]

160. A ding makes my day!

[jayfish]

167. 7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

[red dog 1]

168. 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

[red dog 1]

169. 1100 Rock and Roll Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

[red dog 1]

170. 119 North Weatherly, Minneapolis, MN.

[red dog 1]

171. 22030 Caroline Drive, Cupertino, CA.

[Mendocino]

176. The house of

Steve Jobs?

[red dog 1]

177. No, good guess though

[Glorfindel]

178. 2311 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California (fictional?)

n/t

[red dog 1]

179. 2066 Crist Dr. Los Altos, CA

[red dog 1]

180. 1720 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.

[red dog 1]

181. 8435 Roanoke Drive, Bel-Nor, Missouri

[Boomerproud]

182. 20 Forthlin Rd. Liverpool England.

Also Menlove Ave., 12 Arnold's Grove.

[red dog 1]

183. 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

[red dog 1]

184. 68 South Street, Freehold, New Jersey

[red dog 1]

185. 3701 W. 119th Street, Hawthorne, CA

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

187. The home The Beach Boys grew up in?

(That is, the Wilson brrothers)

[red dog 1]

186. 1 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

190. Yankee Stadium?

[red dog 1]

191. Correctamundo!

[red dog 1]

188. 698 Sycamore Road, San Pueblo, CA

[jmowreader]

189. 39 Whitehall Street, NYC

This is about what used to be there. What’s there now is just a regular building.

[red dog 1]

192. 328 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, NY

[red dog 1]

193. 112 Ocean Avenue (New York State)

[Niagara]

194. Amityville House.

[red dog 1]

201. Ding!

[Niagara]

196. 4946 Cypress Pond Road, Landon, Illinois

[red dog 1]

200. 2400 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA

[Mendocino]

208. The house of the

Jefferson Airplane.

[red dog 1]

210. Ding!

(Right across the street from Golden Gate Park)

[red dog 1]

202. 122 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA

[red dog 1]

203. 2001 Gayley Road, Berkeley, CA

[red dog 1]

204. 333 West 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois

[red dog 1]

205. 875 South Bundy Drive, Los Angeles, CA

(address was later changed)

[red dog 1]

206. 525 South Winchester Blvd., San Jose, CA

[red dog 1]

207. 1020 Palm Drive, Cocoa Beach, Florida

[Mendocino]

209. 200 Bensinger St

Big Bay MI

[red dog 1]

211. 639 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA