This is a stupid question but ever since the death of Kurt Cobain I have never questioned the fact that I pictured all of this note writing and heroin putting away took place in Fonzie’s apartment because it’s the only apartment over a garage I have ever seen (even though it was not real.)
It just occured to me that maybe this is true for everyone but that we never talk about it because why would we?
So, do you always think that Kurt Cobain killed himself in Fonzie’s apartment?
I don’t recall Fonzie’s pad having this lineoleum
http://www.portaldapereba.hpg.ig.com.br/Famosos%20mortos/kurt-cobain.jpg
These apartments were popular immediately after WW2, when there was a housing shortage.
You still see them occasionally, especially in University towns, as it’s a good way for a homeowner to pick up cash & pay your taxes. Modestly common here in Murfreesboro.
YES!
You aren’t the only one. Since I never cared enough about Cobain to register anything other than “dead, apartment over garage” I always pictured Fonzie’s apartment.
Oh my God, I guess I did!
That’s funny and sick.
Ed Crankshaft’s apartment is over his daughter’s garage.
Picture it in faded light green.
Does that mean Kurt Cobain’s last word was “Geronimo!” as he attempted Number 35?
I didn’t know until just now that Cobain killed himself in a garage apartment. Was it an apartment at his own estate or a friend’s place or… what? (He was surely a millionaire when he died and could have afforded any place.)
I’d kill myself too if I had to live in the Fonz’s apartment. Ugh. Especially that hideous green bench with the toilet seat mirror at the top!
Kurt Cobain did not kill himself. His head was blown off in a freak accident while he was rebuilding a motorcycle inside his garage apartment in an attempt to overcome depression induced by temporary blindness.
(Has this thread jumped the shark yet?)
Cite, Sample? I’ve rarely heard it was not a suicide and this is the first I’ve ever heard of this particular scenario.
WHOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!
It happens.
Care to explain the joke then?
Its a reference to a Happy Days episode where Fonzie was temporarily blind and depressed.
I chuckled a bit at the joke, but your response made me laugh so loud that my wife called from the kitchen to ask what was so funny.
I’m easily amused. 
Being 22, I’m not too familiar with Happy Days trivia other than the obvious Jump the Shark references and the general Fonzie stereotype.
Thanks for the explanation.
Geez. I feel really old now.
Well, that’s a relief! I clicked in here to find out what the hell Kurt Cobain had to do with Fozzie Bear. :eek: 
Well, I will now!
I am sort of freaked out now that although I’ve never connected the Cobain news story with Fonzie’s apartment, now that you mention it, I realize that’s pretty much how I’ve always pictured the apartment in my mind.
Sampiro, yes, it was part of his own home. I remember the news coverage using the phrase “garage apartment.” I just looked at some links on google, and it seems to have been an area used as a storage space at the time Cobain owned the property. Some of the news articles call it a greenhouse room rather than an apartment.
Here’s a picture of the house that gives a good sense of the style of the property.
This is a picture of the garage, which shows how it fits into the rest of the house.
Those two links go directly to pictures that show just the house. Be aware, however, that the site itself also houses some more gory, crime type pictures.
On the topic of garage apartments in general, I’ve seen a few of them that were originally used to house live-in servants, so I think they come in two flavors – sort of higher end, as I understand the Cobain property to have been, built with the need of housing employees in mind, and then the Cunningham type (that’s the family in Happy Days, for you members of the younger set 
) where a middle class family was trying to maximize their space and possibly add a little supplemental income from a renter.
