# Interesting things near where you live or work **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648 "2010-04-01T21:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FrWindyShephardHenderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FrWindyShephardHenderson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrWindyShephardHenderson)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/21 "2010-04-02T09:23:10Z")
My family has a summer home, in whose garden in 1912, you would have been staring directly at the Titanic. It was the last place it stopped, until it um stopped for good that is. Not far from where [this](http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-the-last-photograph.html) photo was taken. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/22 "2010-04-02T12:52:10Z")
I live right on a river. The nearest bridge is about a quarter mile away, and I drive over it whenever I need to get anywhere at all. That bridge is also part of the Appalachian Trail. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/23 "2010-04-02T14:30:12Z")
On my way from work to lunch and back, I regularly drive past the grave site of James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/24 "2010-04-02T14:32:13Z")
**William Blake** , \*\*John Bunyan \*\*and \*\*Daniel Defoe \*\*are [buried](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunhill_Fields) a short walk from my office. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/25 "2010-04-02T17:22:41Z")
> [@Sandra\_Battye](#): > > I live 4 blocks from the corner of Castro and Market. If you’re ever at Lucky 13, say hi! ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/26 "2010-04-02T17:33:16Z")
Within a quarter mile of my home I have both whooping cranes and bald eagles. Along with those magnificient creatures, I have people too stupid to pull their cars completely off the road when they get out to take pictures so I also have many accidents in my area. ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/27 "2010-04-02T17:55:20Z")
> [@HowieReynolds](#): > > I live about a mile from the restaurant where Jenna Bush got arrested for using a fake ID. I must live in walking distance from this poster then. Um, I pass the site where O. Henry’s house was all the time at lunch. ETA: Woah!!! Where’s this cave opening, I have never heard of this! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/28 "2010-04-02T18:11:13Z")
I work about a half mile from **Uncle Tom’s Cabin** in Bethesda, MD. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/29 "2010-04-02T21:21:21Z")
This may not count, because it’s not me personally, but my parents live only a few blocks, easy walking distance, from the restaurant where Robert Blake supposedly murdered his wife. I’ve eaten there several times. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/30 "2010-04-02T22:36:04Z")
I work in and around Concord MA, I place with much historic significance. Driving by the [Old North Bridge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_North_Bridge) The last week has been a site. The water level on both sides is well over the banking so only the peak of the bridge can be seen stickup out out of an expanse of water. I also work in a few of the houses that made up the shaker village in [Harvard](http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/shaker/har.htm), MA. The old ministry building is the private home of a lovely older couple who keep it in museum like condition. When working on the newer water system I have to tiptoe around the old dug well that takes up most the basement. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/31 "2010-04-03T03:20:38Z")
I live around the area where the fictional town of Lonesome Dove was located (I know the miniseries was filmed near Del Rio–a ways away). Also we’re not that far away from the King Ranch, a ranch as large as an American state (Rhode Island). Mr. HP remembers running away from and climbing a live oak to escape javelinas 50 years ago when he was a little kid here. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/32 "2010-04-03T03:29:42Z")
[Here In New Hampshire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7nQrCgALM) ---
**Author:** ![WishIHadACoolName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WishIHadACoolName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WishIHadACoolName)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/33 "2010-04-03T20:07:38Z")
I could walk to America’s Oldest Brewery from work. The original site, not one of the “new” Yuengling brewery sites. Beer is still brewed in the original building, and the brewery is still owned by Dick Yuengling. I’m pretty sure his daughters will be taking over and keeping it in the family. Nice people actually. I’ve met Dick and one of his daughters. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/34 "2010-04-03T20:27:28Z")
At lunch I walk past the grave of Alexander Hamilton, it’s about a block from work in the Trinity Churchyard. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/35 "2010-04-03T20:42:47Z")
In Philly, we’ve got nothing but history, but for super-local: I’m a few blocks from Grace Kelly’s childhood home. (When the parish church celebrated its 125th, or 150th, I don’t remember, anniversary a few years ago, Prince Albert came, which I thought was neat.) Near work: the corner where I get off the bus was the site of the old Negro Leagues ballpark, and they have a tiny commemorative park there. (Belmont and Parkside, in case there’s any Philly area baseball fans who didn’t know that.) ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/36 "2010-04-03T20:54:35Z")
First to occur to me are movie-related: I live a few blocks from the apartment building in **Singles** , and a few blocks (in the other direction) from the grave of Bruce Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/37 "2010-04-04T00:31:46Z")
> [@mariposalabrown](#): > > Woah!!! Where’s this cave opening, I have never heard of this! It’s Whirlpool Cave, near the underpass of Convict Hill Road at Mopac. The opening was originally a hole in the ground. (The cave got its name from what happened when it rained heavily.) Unfortunately (yet wisely, probably), these days it’s got a locked gate over it. The local cave geek society keeps the key, so you have to talk to them about getting access. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/38 "2010-04-04T01:20:42Z")
I live close to the birth place of President Millard Fillmore, which is in the beautiful wooded rural Finger Lakes region. One day a friend and I took a ‘mental health day’ off of work and went to the nearby zoo. We went for a ride on an elephant, and let me tell you, it was a bizarre feeling to be up on the back of an elephant and seeing the building where you work a short distance away. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/39 "2010-04-04T01:36:10Z")
I work just south of the 105 freeway, immediately south of Los Angeles International (LAX). For years, while the 105 was being constructed, many freeway scenes in movies were filmed there. The three buildings I’ve worked in over the years are often visible in these scenes, though I think they try not to linger on the buildings very long. Otherwise, it would seem that almost every freeway in the country has these same buildings right next to them. ATM I’m drawing a blank, but examples are in Patriot Games and one of the Lethal Weapon movies (wherein a motorcycle drove off the end of an incomplete segment). ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/40 "2010-04-04T03:41:20Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > I work near both where the Tanners [had their picnic](http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=37.775608,-122.43355&spn=0,359.99761&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.775544,-122.433553&panoid=sPYFMP_z6nI2-kvT_N25Sg&cbp=12,31.32,,0,-4.7), and where they [lived](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1709+Broderick+Street&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1709+Broderick+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94115&gl=us&ei=iSO1S8e8GJC0Nt-R_OwJ&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&ll=37.786462,-122.441828&spn=0.001087,0.00239&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.786364,-122.441807&panoid=jV3RHuR8vpVcPMqcHqTO-Q&cbp=12,270.52,,0,-9.04). Note: they are not the same place… no idea why everyone thinks that. ??? You lost me on that one. Who are the Tanners? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648.md?page=3)