# Normal Places Made Famous by an Arts and Entertainment Thing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803 "2023-03-06T20:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/21 "2023-03-06T23:11:44Z")
Maybe recognizable for other reasons? [![](https://i0.wp.com/liveforlivemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/animalspigs.jpg?zoom=2&resize=740%2C390&ssl=1) ](https://i0.wp.com/liveforlivemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/animalspigs.jpg?zoom=2&resize=740%2C390&ssl=1) ETA Damn ninjas! ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/22 "2023-03-06T23:15:58Z")
Pizzaland in North Arlington, New Jersey apparently gets a lot of business from Sopranos fans (it was in the opening credits). > **[PIZZALAND, North Arlington - Menu, Prices & Restaurant Reviews - Order...](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g46678-d459528-Reviews-Pizzaland-North_Arlington_New_Jersey.html)** > > Order food online at Pizzaland, North Arlington with Tripadvisor: See 16 unbiased reviews of Pizzaland, ranked #26 on Tripadvisor among 35 restaurants in North Arlington. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/23 "2023-03-06T23:16:04Z")
Portmierion, Wales. Also known as “The Village”: > **[The Prisoner TV Show | History | Portmeirion Village](https://portmeirion.wales/about/the-prisoner)** > > The Prisoner TV Show, a 1960's cult classic, was filmed at Portmeirion Village in North Wales, visit the filming locations on a unique day out in North Wales. Port Isaac, Cornwall. Also known as “Portwenn”: > **[Portwenn | Doc Martin location | Port Isaac](https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/port-isaac/portwenn.htm)** > > Portwenn, the fictitious Cornish fishing village in Doc Martin is actually Port Isaac. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/24 "2023-03-06T23:16:10Z")
I was thinking of the “Mrs. Doubtfire” house: > **[San Francisco's beloved 'Mrs. Doubtfire' house going on market for $4.45 million](https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Mrs-Doubtfire-house-San-Francisco-2640-Steiner-9298015.php)** > > What might be the city's most famous, and certainly beloved, home is going up for sale ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/25 "2023-03-07T00:31:23Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > There’s a shitty looking pawn shop in Vegas with a line around the corner of people waiting to get in What’s this a reference to? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/26 "2023-03-07T00:33:19Z")
The store from a hit reality show on The History Channel; _Pawn Stars_ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/27 "2023-03-07T00:34:04Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Pawn Stars Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/28 "2023-03-07T00:34:52Z")
Oh sticking with music there is Salford Lads Club. Made famous by the Smiths (literally they get people traveling from all over the world to take their picture there): > **[These charming fans: Smiths devotees pose outside Salford Lads Club - in...](https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2012/mar/06/smiths-fans-salford-lads-club?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)** > > Photographer Stephen Wright captures Smiths fans recreating the famous image of the band outside Salford Lads Club ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/29 "2023-03-07T00:39:35Z")
Nobody heard of the Empire State Building before King Kong. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/30 "2023-03-07T00:42:10Z")
I used to live on a houseboat one pier over from Tom Hanks’ character’s houseboat in _Sleepless in Seattle_. Lots of people, including tour boats, came and had a look. Not sure if anyone cares anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/31 "2023-03-07T00:49:39Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Hazard, Nebraska, because of the song by Richard Marx. And lots of people visit Winslow, Arizona, because of a song. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/32 "2023-03-07T00:53:57Z")
The Chartwell Mansion in Bel Air, CA: > **[Chartwell Mansion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartwell_Mansion)** > > The Chartwell Mansion is a Chateauesque mansion in Bel-Air, California. Built in 1933, it is best known for its role as the Clampett family home in the 1960s television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. It was the most expensive home for sale in the United States in 2018. > The house was designed by Sumner Spaulding in 1933 in the style of a French chateau. It was built for engineer and contractor Lynn Atkinson, who commissioned the property for his wife. She found it "pretentious", so the coupl... ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/33 "2023-03-07T00:56:54Z")
Benson, Arizona, too. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xjvNQJ8Rd9g/hqdefault.jpg "Joe Bethancourt - Benson Arizona") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvNQJ8Rd9g) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/34 "2023-03-07T00:57:42Z")
**Tony Packo’s Cafe** in Toledo, Ohio. It became famous when Jamie Farr mentioned it at least six times while playing Klinger on MASH. (Farr grew up in Toledo.) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/35 "2023-03-07T00:58:25Z")
Point Dume at the southern end of Zuma Beach. It’s just an outcropping of rock at the tide line like a thousand others in California, but if you can commit the outline of the rocks to memory, you will recognize it in almost any film or TV show from the Sixties with a beach scene. [![](https://preview.ibb.co/hQj1oH/planet_of_the_apes_statue_of_liberty.jpg) ](https://preview.ibb.co/hQj1oH/planet_of_the_apes_statue_of_liberty.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/36 "2023-03-07T01:04:17Z")
The ubiquitous Vasquez Rocks, most memorable from the _ **Star Trek** _ episode “Arena”: > **[Vasquez Rocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks)** > > Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 932-acre (377-hectare) park located in the Sierra Pelona in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is known for its rock formations, the result of sedimentary layering and later seismic uplift. It is located near the town of Agua Dulce, between the cities of Santa Clarita and Palmdale. The area is visible from the Antelope Valley Freeway (State Route 14). It has been used as a location for films and television programs on many occasions. > These rock forma... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/37 "2023-03-07T01:07:18Z")
What’s the fanwank explanation for that shot? AFAIK, there are no cliffs near Liberty Island. And something as fragile as the SoL cant just get washed ashore, upright and intact. It doesn’t ruin the movie for me- the unconvincing ape makeup did that. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/38 "2023-03-07T01:12:02Z")
I’d guess the coastline of North America was reshaped in the war. Cobalt bombs can ruin your whole day… ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803/39 "2023-03-07T01:13:49Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > What’s the fanwank explanation for that shot? The mutants proverbially “rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic” after WW3. ---
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> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Nobody heard of the Empire State Building before King Kong. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BroR_xJduhg/hqdefault.jpg "U.S.A.: A Mooring Mast Completed on top of world's highest building, the Empire State (1931)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BroR_xJduhg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-places-made-famous-by-an-arts-and-entertainment-thing/980803.md?page=3)