# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/81 "2010-04-09T16:20:13Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > The list of eminent scientists, authors and philosophers associated with this city is too big to recite in full. The most famous are probably Adam Smith, James Clarke Maxwell, Robert Napier, Alexander Graham Bell, David Hume and Sir Walter Scott. Charles Darwin, too. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/82 "2010-04-14T17:11:42Z")
5 minutes from home, and a bi-monthly visit is [Stone Mountain](http://students.ou.edu/S/Cody.A.Stokes-1/Stone%20Mountain.jpg), the largest exposed piece-o-granite around. Atlanta has nothing else to offer the civilized world. Except maybe the High Museum, which was the exterior of the psych hospital in Red Dragon. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/83 "2010-04-14T17:55:02Z")
I live and work just outside of Savannah, Georgia, which is noted for oozing charm and history and all that. However, there are a couple of surprisingly interesting stops in the little towns where I live and work: Randy Woods Guitars [http://www.randywoodguitars.com/index.cfm](http://www.randywoodguitars.com/index.cfm) is just down the street from home. Mr. Woods is a self-taught instrument maker whose guitars and mandolins and such are used by a lot of big name musicians (especially country and bluegrass artists.) Across the street from my office: Gretsch Guitars and Drums - [http://www.gretsch.com/home](http://www.gretsch.com/home). Randy Woods and Gretsch are only about 3 miles apart. This is not really an area known as a musician’s mecca, but apparently the conditions are right to build instruments… And about .2 miles east of my office: The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. [http://www.mightyeighth.org/](http://www.mightyeighth.org/). One of the coolest little-known museums in the area, and my kids loved their summer day camp a couple of years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/84 "2010-04-14T18:35:52Z")
Roughly in a circle round me, none more than three and a half miles away: Palace of Westminster, Trafalgar Square, Tower of London (near which of course the original Roman walls of London, the Temple of Mithras, etc), Greenwich Observatory, Telegraph Hill Park (one of the semaphore hills used by the Admiralty to communicate, among other things, the victory at Waterloo), Peckham Rye (where Blake saw angels), the Oval… or is living in London cheating too?! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/85 "2010-04-14T18:42:39Z")
All you Brits are pissing me off, mainly because I’d dearly like to be there too. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/86 "2010-04-14T18:50:54Z")
I forgot to mention that Chaucer’s pilgrims stopped at (what was, before it stopped being a pub) my local - the Thomas a Becket, about 200 yards from my door, also famous as a boxing pub wherein many famous boxers sparred, including Henry Cooper, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard and Mohammed Ali. It’s also where David Bowie rehearsed Ziggy Stardust. The [Old Kent Road](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45279), following the course of the Romans’ Watling Street, runs past my block. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/87 "2010-04-14T22:21:25Z")
> [@Teacake](#): > > I forgot to mention that Chaucer’s pilgrims stopped at (what was, before it stopped being a pub) my local - the Thomas a Becket, about 200 yards from my door, also famous as a boxing pub wherein many famous boxers sparred, including Henry Cooper, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard and Mohammed Ali. It’s also where David Bowie rehearsed Ziggy Stardust. The [Old Kent Road](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45279), following the course of the Romans’ Watling Street, runs past my block. B-but, again, I’ve got [this](http://lh3.ggpht.com/fisherwy/R5okFEP8IsI/AAAAAAAANHw/3ta5UsCJ3yg/Big+Butter+Jesus+flickr+picture%5B4%5D). Ah, fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648/88 "2010-04-15T11:09:12Z")
Yours does win for weirdness, to be fair! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-things-near-where-you-live-or-work/534648.md?page=4)