Manhattan is constantly being torn down and rebuilt anew, and I’m trying to find these places while they are still around. Others are places I’ve read about and gone to take a look. Some of the places I tracked down myself for fun.
PopSpots is a website about those places, primarily in New York City, where interesting events in the history of Pop Culture took place like album cover shots, places where movies and tv shows were filmed, and sites on which paintings were based. Child’s necklace, wedding album: The hunt for. His posts are detailed and quite fascinating, especially when he needs to do a little sleuthing to find the original location. As the first generation COVID vaccines are increasingly challenged by rapid mutation of the Coronavirus. Since that fateful first post, Bob has written thirteen more extensive articles on tracking down famous locations in pop culture history. The result? A terrific blog post on his site, and a picture to preserve the memory. Earlier this week, a simple image made its way onto the internet: United. ‘Fair Warning’ (1981) The Fair Warning artwork marked a significant departure for Van Halen album covers. The Bernie Sanders Meme is a Perfect Fit on Classic Album Covers (Beatles, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac & More) SHARE. So off he went, with the original vinyl album cover in hand. ‘Van Halen II’ (1979) Capitalising on the success of their debut album, Van Halen kept the artwork for its follow-up simple: Dave Bhang’s winged logo undergoes a slight 3D makeover and is placed across a midnight-blue canvas. After some impressive detective work and even a note to the original photographer, Bob was able to track down the exact corner in New York City where the album cover was shot. For Bob Egan, it all started with the album cover for Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush.