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Post by bravomailer on Dec 7, 2019 4:18:23 GMT
I was at Umberto's Clam House which was depicted in The Irishman!
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 7, 2019 4:25:29 GMT
I was at Umberto's Clam House which was depicted in The Irishman!
Cool.
It was about a year after Joe Gallo got whacked there.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Dec 7, 2019 4:26:39 GMT
I visited the place where Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 7, 2019 4:35:48 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 7, 2019 4:44:38 GMT
Antietam Gettysburg Fort Monroe The Little Big Horn
CIA headquarters
I'm told I was at a White House Easter egg hunt during the Eisenhower years, but I have no recollection of it.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Dec 7, 2019 7:23:46 GMT
Depends what we're calling a famous place.
The coliseum Sistine chapel Pompeii Leaning tower of Pisa Vegas strip Hoover dam The room where they signed the Declaration of Independence Rocky steps Disneyland Universal Studios Lincoln memorial Empire State Building Ground Zero Freedom Tower Broadway Mardis gras Michael Myers house Nightmare on Elm Street house White House Pentagon
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Post by Stammerhead on Dec 7, 2019 9:49:12 GMT
I could have gone to Buckingham Palace when my aunt was awarded an MBE but family arguments got in the way. I guess I’ll have to wait until I’m invited or drunk enough to climb over the railings.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Dec 7, 2019 10:29:36 GMT
The street where they film Ramsey Street on “Neighbours” is a couple of suburbs away and I’ve walked past there a few times. (Pin Oak Court, Nunawading, Melbourne.)
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Post by Morgana on Dec 7, 2019 10:39:44 GMT
Wales. Various castles, but since I went when I was a child, I've forgotten their names. England: St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall.  Egypt: The Pyramids. I rode around them on horseback and when we got to the 'back' of them it was so quiet and I got quite an eerie feeling.  Salah'uh Din's Citadel (Saladin's Citadel) Cairo  Tutakhamun's Treasures at the Egyptian Museum. The things I found most interesting were his personal items, like these sandals. There were even little nappies from when he was a child. I found those things very touching.  ![]()  Dubai  ![]() 
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Post by Morgana on Dec 7, 2019 10:40:20 GMT
I could have gone to Buckingham Palace when my aunt was awarded an MBE but family arguments got in the way. I guess I’ll have to wait until I’m invited or drunk enough to climb over the railings. What did your aunt get the MBE for?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Dec 7, 2019 10:50:38 GMT
Bok Tower is the closest to a famous place that I can think of, and I was very young at the time.
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Post by Stammerhead on Dec 7, 2019 11:08:57 GMT
I could have gone to Buckingham Palace when my aunt was awarded an MBE but family arguments got in the way. I guess I’ll have to wait until I’m invited or drunk enough to climb over the railings. What did your aunt get the MBE for? Local charity work.
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Post by Morgana on Dec 7, 2019 15:56:41 GMT
What did your aunt get the MBE for? Local charity work. Nice. Congratulations to her.
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 7, 2019 17:16:32 GMT
The Lourve
Eifel Tower
Westminster Abbey cathedral
The Rijksmuseum
Rosslyn Chapel
Trafalgar Square (where the pigeons crap on you)
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 7, 2019 17:49:49 GMT
I haven’t been all that many places but thinking about it I have seen some cool things. At the Art Institute of Chicago I saw the originals of Winslow Homer’s American Gothic and Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. In London at the British Library I saw the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest manuscript of the complete Christian bible. At the British Museum I saw the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles (which should have been returned to Greece decades ago). On my first trip to San Francisco I visited many Vertigo locations. I have been several times to Las Vegas, New Mexico. If you take Exit 345 from I-25, turn toward town, over the bridge, and down to the first street, you are on the site used as the U.S.-Mexico border in No Country For Old Men. Proceed on to the town square and you will find where Captain America and Billy crashed the parade and were arrested in Easy Rider. Later, when released, they stand on the square with George Hanson. I, too, have visited Delaney Square in Dallas where JFK was shot and Ford’s Theater in D.C. where Lincoln was shot. Visited several Civil War battlefields.   
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Post by 🎄Jan El Señor🎄 on Dec 7, 2019 19:24:29 GMT
I've been to Molar World!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 7, 2019 20:34:34 GMT
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Post by divtal on Dec 7, 2019 20:54:45 GMT
In the "tower" category:
The Tower of London The Leaning Tower of Pisa The Eiffel Tower
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 7, 2019 21:25:08 GMT
A friend's father went there in 1944. He made it.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Dec 7, 2019 21:29:49 GMT
Comiskey Park II in Chicago. Now known as Guaranteed Rate Field. Wrigley Field in Chicago. Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Now known as Scotiabank Arena. HSBC Arena in Buffalo. Now known as KeyBank Center. Tiger Stadium in Detroit (RIP).
The Parliament Building in Ottawa.
I've been outside of the Bell Centre in Montreal. The intention was to go to a game there, but when a friend of mine and I were there, it was during the lockout in 2004-05.
Probably saw quite a few things when our family went to England. However, I'm darned if I can remember them as it was 35 years ago. 
Joker's Wilde
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