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Stax Records may be dead and gone, but soul music is alive and kicking – and on display in downtown Memphis, a small but welcomed miracle in a city that needed one. Stax Records started out on the tiniest of shoestring budgets. Because of its humble beginnings, music artists recorded their hits with Stax in …
Stax Records – Museum of Soul Music – Memphis, TennesseeRead More
The infamous Heaven’s Gate suicides in 1997 prompted several memorials and a couple of museums showcasing this cult’s beliefs and subsequent mass suicides in a rental house. One exhibit was housed at the Museum of Death in Hollywood; the other, at the Sheriff’s Department in San Diego County. In 2014, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department …
Wakita, Oklahoma, starred as itself in the movie Twister (1998), as a town ravaged by a voracious tornado. The film starred Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and many other A-List actors. It came in just behind the number one highest grossing film that year (Independence Day), partly because it made storm chasing a sexy career. It …
The passageways of Wonder Cave wind around a quarter of a mile, snaking through a mound of rocks weighing thousands of pounds, that were all hand-piled and put in place by parishioners, Father Wagner, and Edmund. All of what you see at Wonder Cave was built by imagination – they had no blueprint or amazing …
The project that would become the Rudolph Grotto and the Wonder Cave began in 1928 when Father Wagner and his assistant, Edmund, decided to begin a labor of love. The project came to an end in 1983 when Edmund, simply too old to continue, decided to finally retire. Father Wagner came to Rudolph in the …
In July of 1988, a corn field in Iowa would become a baseball field for a Hollywood movie. Usually, movie sets are either torn down or left to become dilapidated ruins after the actors leave; but, Field of Dreams still remains, and it is one of Iowa’s top attractions for tourists. Not too many movies …
Field of Dreams Movie Site – Dyersville, Iowa – Part OneRead More
