Normal Places Made Famous by an Arts and Entertainment Thing

It’s gone now, and it was a fairly famous restaurant to start with, but Lee Ho Fooks became a destination with the Warren Zevon song Werewolves of London.

I was walking through the streets of Soho in the rain when I came across it, and of course I had to eat there. I did not, however, order beef chow mein.

The Bradbury Building in LA, which was used probably most famously in Blade Runner, along with about a dozen other films. Not bad for something that started out as an ordinary office building.

Is that the building in which Bond, James Bond, is riding up a cast iron elevator, and fights a fellow rider, after an initial period of uncertainty?

In Diamonds Are Forever? I don’t think so. That part of the movie was set in Amsterdam.

Wasn’t the Bradbury Building also featured in an episode of The Outer Limits?

The Bull & Finch Pub in Boston which was the bar Cheers was based on. (And it is NOW the Cheers Beacon Hill bar/restaurant)

Not exactly a normal place, but The Dakota was a lot more normal before Rosemary’s Baby was filmed there.

And IIRC its exterior awning was the one seen in establishing shots on the show.

How about Walden Pond?

Other famous steps include the ones from the 2019 film The Joker or the steps up which Laurel & Hardy tried to deliver a piano.

What I wouldn’t give to be able to take an airship from downtown Toronto direct to the Empire State Building…

Also the Odessa steps

It’s the only way to fly! :slightly_smiling_face:

I spent 3 days there. It was a great jumping off point for seeing the Hoh Rain Forest and the north coast beaches. My wife and I did eat at the Bella Italia restaurant in Port Townsend that was actually used in the movie.

Drove through Roslyn, Washington once. There was a TV crew filming outdoor scenes for Northern Exposure.

My wife and I stumbled across the Pierce Brothers cemetery in LA a few years ago. More dead celebrities in a half acre that anyplace else in the world.

… Or Lennon was shot there. :unamused:

Of course it gained additional notoriety later on when John Lennon was murdered at the entrance to the building.

There’s this pizzeria in Mystic, Connecticut…

For me, that’s actually a bit sad, as there are much better pizzerias about an hour west of Mystic.

Demon with a Glass Hand.

Yeah, there’s a ton of history at that building - Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall, Lennon/Ono…

I visited there a few years ago when I was in L.A. Someone already mentioned Demon With a Glass Hand. The Bradbury is also rather prominent in the American remake of M from 1951.

A few blocks east on Beacon St. is a house that served as Mulholland’s Rare Books and Prints on the TV series Banacek. I sometimes wonder if the owners are aware of it.

US Highway 50 across northern Nevada got written up in some magazine as “the lonliest road”, so now it is supposed to be a thing, to drive it with this little book that you get a stamp in at several towns to show that you drove it. As to being well named, no, not even close.