Where It’s At Pinpoints Pop Culture Landmarks
Posted by KAT in Full House, Grey's Anatomy, Seinfeld, WeedsMay 15th, 2009, 02:53 PM
Yay! This is fun.
Check out Where It’s At. It’s an interactive map that points to locations referenced in pop culture, from the Grey’s Anatomy Seattle hospital to John Lennon’s New York City apartment. Visitors can sort by different categories (e.g. “movie magic” or “totally tv”), and are encouraged to add in any missing landmarks. Though still very incomplete-seeming, it’s a super fun map to click through; within minutes I visited both the Seinfeld diner “Monk’s” on the show, Tom’s Restaurant in real life) and the Elliott Smith Figure 8 wall.
I decided to zoom in on my little home by the Bay (San Francisco, dummy!) to see what I could find. I was met with your expected Grateful Dead house and Full House houses, as well as my favorite Bay Area fun fact.
FUN FACT! You know the Weeds theme song (”Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky…”)? It’s called “Little Boxes” and it’s sung by folk singer Malvina Reynolds. Well get this: the satirical song was written when Reynolds saw the colorful rows of houses on a Daly City hill right here in the Bay. Check ‘em out on your way into the SF from the airport. Love that fact.
Okay, enough about me. Go visit your town!
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