Post the address of a famous place & see if anyone knows what the place is W/O using Google-Part 4

[red dog 1]

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1) 3137 Whittier Street, St. Louis, MO.

2) 710 Ashbury Street, San Francisco, CA. (answered)

3) 10250 Constellation Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

4) 1301 El Camino Real, Colma, CA. (answered)

5) 1595 Malone Road, Nesbit, Mississippi

6) 18231 Bancroft Avenue, Monte Sereno, CA.

7) 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive, Chicago, Illinois (answered)

8) 11 Fifth Avenue # 4H, New York, N.Y.

9) 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd., San Francisco, CA. (answered)

10) 342 Gravelpit Terrace

11) 485 Mapleton Drive, Mayfield

12) 123 Marshall Road, Hydsberg, N.Y.

13) 122 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA.

14) 328 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.

15) 68 South Street, Freehold, New Jersey

16) 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

17) 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale, CA.

18) 222 W. 23rd Street, New York, N.Y.

19) 3001 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C.

20) 1619 Broadway, New York, N.Y. (answered)








More Addresses from Part 3:
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[Brother Buzz]

1. 125 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, Ca

Extra credit: Name the film or the person who made a brief cameo exiting the fake 125 Maiden Lane that was built on a Hollywood movie set.

[red dog 1]

4. I don't know that address, but was the film Vertigo? Was the cameo by Alfred Hitchcock?

[Brother Buzz]

6. Right cameo, wrong movie

The real pet store was Robinson's pet store, and back in the day, it was a famous pet store catering to the moneyed SF socialites. The interior Hollywood set totally duplicated the weird floor plan of the real pet store.



Here's the easy peasy hint to the name of the movie: It was mostly filmed in Bodega Bay, California

Double extra credit: Name the breed of Hitchcock's dogs (those are his dogs, but nobody knows which two; he had three)

[red dog 1]

11. Didn't he get off a bus in Vertigo?

[Harker]

12. I got off a bus in Vertigo once.

Wrong stop.

[Brother Buzz]

19. He was carrying a weird sculpted horned instrument case in Vertigo.

He couldn't get on the bus in North by Northwest; the bus driver slammed the door in his face (filmed in NYC, so one could assume Ralph Kramden was the rude bus driver)

[musette_sf]

2. I don't know for sure what # 4 is

but it's got to be something about a cemetery, since Colma is the City Of The Dead.

[red dog 1]

10. Hills of Eternity, I think

It's where Wyatt Earp is buried.

(My Dad & I went there once to see his grave)

[Freddie]

3. #20 - the Brill Building?

[red dog 1]

15. Ding!

[red dog 1]

5. 76 North C Street, Virginia City, Nevada

[Brother Buzz]

7. The Red Dog Saloon?

Where they beta-tested psychedelic music.



Dan Hicks was still playing drums with the Charlatans when they were the house band. But the BIG event was Janis Joplin hooking up with Big Brother and the Holding Company; oh, but to invent a time machine and go back to witness that!

[red dog 1]

9. I wish out loud every day to go into a time machine.

[musette_sf]

13. From July 2000,

before a show with DH and Wilhelm:

[Brother Buzz]

17. That be the Red Dog Saloon!

Did any of that show make it into the film?

I never knew Mike Wilhelm but I remember him when he visited Mill Valley; he loved the Brothers tavern (right next door to Prune Music).

My wife and I miss Dan Hicks horribly.

[musette_sf]

18. You mean Mary Works' film, yes?

That was from 1996. (I know, does not seem like that long ago.)

The mention of the Brothers reminds me of "By The Time I Get To Mill Valley":

"But tonight they're having an arm-wrestling championship at the Brothers,
And you know I wouldn't miss that for all the coke on Mount Tam"

My husband and I also miss Dan horribly.

[Brother Buzz]

21. That's it!

"The hallucinogens were passed around, then we auditioned. Is that right?" - Dan Hicks

Here's the film. The video quality is crappy, but the sound is good. Great documenting of the Red Dog experiment, then on to the San Francisco music scene:

Psychedelic music, psychedelic posters, and the light show were all beta tested in Virginia City, Baby!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. #19 is that part of the zoo?

Try 270 Broadway in NYC.

[red dog 1]

14. Ding!

The Smithsonian's National Zoo

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

20. No guess on the Manhattan address?

Think about it.

[red dog 1]

16. 2645 Gough Street, San Francisco, CA

[Hugh_Lebowski]

41. Only thing I can think of on Gough is Saint Mary's ... which is a magnificent edifice ...

So my 2nd guess is ... your place?

[red dog 1]

58. No..I wish it was my place...It's worth a lot!

(Hint: It's name is based on the shape of the building)

[red dog 1]

22. 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT.

[red dog 1]

23. 4 Jersey Street, Boston, Mass.

[jmowreader]

24. 17 Piedmont St., Boston, MA

[ShazzieB]

25. No. 7 is

Soldier Field!

[red dog 1]

26. Ding!

[Stuart G]

27. 5700 South Lakefront..Chicago, Ill

[red dog 1]

28. 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA

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Hint: "Live Music"

[Hugh_Lebowski]

39. Just to confirm, I looked to a poster on my wall 4 feet away ... was that cheating?

THE LEGENDARY FILLMORE THEATER BABY ...

[red dog 1]

56. Bill Graham used to greet people coming in himself, handing out apples to everyone.

(No, that wasn't cheating)

I wish I'd saved all my Fillmore posters.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

59. Oh, man, you didn't keep em?

That's a bummer!

Here's a good one ... took a LONG time to get back open after the earthquake as you may recall ... this was the first show ...

[red dog 1]

63. I did collect them and put them up on my walls,

(but eventually my niece talked me into giving them to her)

[red dog 1]

29. 1350 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.

(Hint: It's not there anymore)

[Brother Buzz]

34. I know that one, and it was a truly regal building. Sad

Cool side story: When they auctioned off the props and wardrobe, the Diggers outfit scooped up a ton of it. Peter Coyote and the Diggers theater group landed the coolest stuff, and some choice pieces even made it up to the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, but the bulk of it cycled through the The Diggers Free Store, straight out into the community, which explains all the bizarre costumes we saw back in the daze.

[red dog 1]

36. Did you ever go there when it was still there?

(I did, many times)

[Brother Buzz]

37. Never for a production, but I was given a spectacular tour of it before it was torn down

Back in the day, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce put on a really cool 'Open House' of the city. Really neat places were open to the public for the kids to tour: The Old Mint, The Old Post Office (Rincon?), Cable Car power plant, Commercial Ad/copy house, Crocker and Wells Fargo banks, a five star restaurant (Blue Fox?), Levi Strauss factory, and even Melvin Belli's bizarre law office. There were a lot more places on the list, but these were the one that made a lasting impression.

The theater was cool. As a kid, I didn't really appreciate the architecture for what it was, but the tour of the stage was GREAT. Seems like they had a million curtains, half went up and down, while the other half opened and closed sideways. Sets were raised and lowered by rope, and even had cartoon sandbags attached. Trap doors in the stage were wicked cool; there was another world down there.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

44. Was that back in like 76 or 77?

or 78 maybe?

[Brother Buzz]

45. Um, '62 or '63

The Fox theater was torn down in 1963. It was HUGH!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

46. Oh, okay ... maybe they 'opened up' a lot of those places later, but I went to 3 of the places

on your list as field trips around 1977, within a fairly short period ... I don't know if it was an 'open house for kids' kinda deal but it very well may've been. It was the Mint, Crocker Bank, and place where Cable Car motors were.

[Brother Buzz]

47. A couple did open up to the public later

But we were privileged to have in depth guided tours....inside the 'velvet ropes'; the businesses pulled out all the stops.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

48. Yeah, ours were guided tours from the people who worked there, it was awesome ...

The Mint and Cable Car motor place ... forget the name ... were amazing. We got up close to everything. Super cool.

[Brother Buzz]

50. My mom hauled us around for a couple of years, and it was always cool

Seems like there were thirty, or so, places to choose from. Something different every year. The Chinese cookie factory in Chinatown was a blast. I was sad to see it closed down last year or so. My mom told me her older sister visited the same place in the early forties to have her wedding announcement made into fortune cookies.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

51. I friggin love The City, man ...

So much cool stuff to do there ...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

40. You guys didn't say what it was ;)

[red dog 1]

54. See reply # 45

[Hugh_Lebowski]

57. Yes, I saw that, that was a later reply, to me :) but thx ...

[red dog 1]

30. 439 North Oak Park Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[red dog 1]

31. 1911 Sixth Street, Lubbock, Texas

[Brother Buzz]

32. Pushing the obvious aside I'll guess...

The skating rink Buddy Holly and the Crickets played at?

Or the radio station future record producer, Snuff Garrett, got his start?

[red dog 1]

35. It's the childhood home of Buddy Holly.

[Brother Buzz]

38. I suspected as much, but I was trying to second guess you

[FSogol]

33. 7B Praed Street, London

[Hugh_Lebowski]

42. #2 I'ma guess ... Jerry Garcia's house in the mid 60's?

[red dog 1]

52. Yes

(Most of The Grateful Dead lived there in the mid 60s).

[Hugh_Lebowski]

43. 8901 W. Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA

Hint: Music

[Hugh_Lebowski]

49. #9 ... Coit Tower?

[red dog 1]

55. That's it!

[red dog 1]

53. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

60. I know you can see the Transamerica Building from the foot of Columbus, but ...

Not sure it's ON Columbus, I'm not thinking not.

So I'll guess ... THe Condor

City Lights Books?

Vesuvio?

Stinking Rose?

I'm just naming places I know on Columbus lol

[red dog 1]

62. It's City Lights Bookstore, across the alley from Vesuvio's

(Vesuvio's makes a great Irish Coffee)

[joetheman]

61. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[red dog 1]

64. Joe Biden's home for the next 4 years

Welcome to DU!

[red dog 1]

65. 1313 South Harbor Blvd., Anaheim, CA.

[red dog 1]

66. 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA

[red dog 1]

67. 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA.

[red dog 1]

68. 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road, Los Olivos, CA.

[red dog 1]

69. 728 Chauncy Street, New York City

[OriginalGeek]

70. 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009

and a bonus, unrelated address because it popped into my head as I was reading the thread: 1313 Mockingbird Lane

[red dog 1]

71. 750 Bel Air Road, Los Angeles, CA.

[red dog 1]

72. 1208 Caffin Avenue, New Orleans, LA.

[red dog 1]

73. 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, U.K.