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Posted: 4/5/2006 5:13:01 AM EDT

[#1]

I live near the grassy knoll.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:17:22 AM EDT

[#2]

about 1/4 mile from MAE East. Odds are you "visited" it just to view this post.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:26:20 AM EDT

[#3]

The Biltmore Estate and the Grove Park Inn are probably the most famous places here in Asheville.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:29:45 AM EDT

[#4]

The house that Bob built, does that count?

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:32:38 AM EDT

[#5]

Right after college I lived about 200 yards to Doc Holliday's grave in Glenwod Springs, CO. The house I lived in was the closest one to the trailhead up to the graveyard. Always fun to have ppl over to watch Tombstone!!

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:35:38 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Well this is a refreshingly different thread!! I live less than two miles from the worlds largest sink hole....

you are NOT that close to ATL!!

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:36:01 AM EDT

[#7]

Just one of many. Fort Fisher.

Fort Fisher

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:40:49 AM EDT

[#8]

The development of the amphibian tractor, or LVT, which began in the middle 1930s provided the solution and was one of the most important modern technical contributions to ship-to-shore operations. Without these landing vehicles our amphibious offensive in the Pacific would have been impossible.
Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, USMC

It all started in Clearwater and Dunedin. There is still a tiny monument in Dunedin in memorial of the first Alligator/Water Buffalo/Amtrack.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:42:25 AM EDT

[#9]

First season of The Dukes of Hazzard was filmed about 10 miles from my house.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:44:44 AM EDT

[#10]

I could walk to what's left of the original Chicken Ranch.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:48:32 AM EDT

[#11]

I live near the Oregon Trail.

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:53:33 AM EDT

[#12]

Well lets see......
Short drive to the Wright Bros. Memorial ( screw you Ohio

)
Used to live a five min. boat ride to the "Shackleford Ponys"
Short drive to Cape hatterass.
Black Beard ship was not too far away.
My Dad and Mom were in the navy, had free access to NOB and surrounding bases, I really miss Dependants cruises.

Used to live a 10 min drive from the "Grassy Knoll"
When I grew up in Va Beach, all the cool Civil War museums were great,

Posted: 4/5/2006 5:54:54 AM EDT

[#13]

The USS Yorktown is out my back window......and the start of the Civil War (Ft. Sumter) is out in the harbor a ways, but still visible from my house

Posted: 4/5/2006 6:30:41 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
I live near the grassy knoll.

Then you also live close to 'that book suppository building'!!!.....

Posted: 4/5/2006 6:42:51 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I live in the area known as The Mother-lode (where all the gold was/still is)...

Toulumne County?

Posted: 4/5/2006 6:53:50 AM EDT

[#16]

ehh, so many movies, etc. shot here, we pay no attention.

We do have a lot of history from the 30's as the gangsters loved hanging out here. Wbasha Street caves were a popular spot. When they were featured on the history channel, they made a comment about the St. PAul police being corrupt at the time, and all I can think to ask is when did they stop?

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:02:58 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I live near the grassy knoll.

ARHG!!!!!

You beat me to it,,, the only reason i clicked on this thread was to say that :)

here is the live dealey plaza webcam....

yall keep an eye out for me.. im off today and im going down there,,, ill wave to the camera

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:04:27 AM EDT

[#18]

The EAA is about 8 miles away as the crow flies. During the annual fly-in I get to see some pretty cool aircraft flying over my house.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:10:33 AM EDT

[#19]

Mt Washington is about 10 miles down the road......as is Bretton Woods...Roosevelt and Churchil had a meeting there in WW2 if you didn't know................................other than thats just lots of woods, hills, mud,snow and cow shit!!!

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:12:43 AM EDT

[#20]

Walking distance from Udvar-Hazy center (National Air and Space Museum ) and IAD

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:18:45 AM EDT

[#21]

I live in the shadow of Currahee Mountain.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:23:10 AM EDT

[#22]

Roswell New Mexico.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:23:43 AM EDT

[#23]

10 mins to Picatinny Arsenal, 20 mins to a bunch of Rev War sites.. Fort Nonsense, Jockey Hollow, etc.

A mile away from the M&M Mars production plant. A few times a month the whole valley smells like either melting chocolate or roasting peanuts.. Industrial pollution at it's finest

Hmmmmmm.. Well, horsie-types know this area as a mecca for equestrian pursuits.. The US Eq. Team has their facilities not too far south of here.

*shrug* typical NJ.. The state is too packed in NOT to be near something famous or interesting.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:25:15 AM EDT

[#24]

i wanna add something the OP question..

do live near anything famous.. ? and have never been to it?

example.. i live near the "grassy knoll" but have never been there, < not yet :)>

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:25:59 AM EDT

[#25]

Sir, until yesterday there were four nuclear powered aircraft carriers visible during my drive home from work, today there are three. There is another nuclear powered aircraft carrier in drydock within yards of where I sit as well as a yet to be commissioned nuclear powered submarine and aircraft carrier not far away. I was on board the carrier in drydock about an hour ago. There is another nuclear powered aircraft carrier in drydock a few miles from here as well as an Iowa class battleship not far away. There are quite a few other US Navy ships close by, including some LHAs, LHDs, DDs, CGs, and SSNs. There are frequent fly overs of all manner of military aircraft including F117s, F/A18s, F14s, F22s, and C5s. Since they all (except the BB) move around occasionally they're not always close to where I live but most of the time there are some. 7zero1, out.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:27:07 AM EDT

[#26]

when I lived in Brooklyn or North Arlington, NJ I was with in a 30 min drive to this

and this

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:28:05 AM EDT

[#27]

:

The result of a serial impact along the 38th parallel in the midwest (like shoemaker-levy's impact on jupiter) and the fourth largest impact site in the States.

Due to the impact ~325MY ago, these rocks are scattered across my parent's farmland:

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:30:53 AM EDT

[#28]

This is the view right from my balcony in San Diego, CA.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:41:13 AM EDT

[#29]

I live near Pomfret/Woodstock.
Theres quite a few Movie stars that have homes here.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:41:28 AM EDT

[#30]

I work a couple blocks from the Watergate buildings. Ugly, ugly, ugly!

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:42:48 AM EDT

[#31]

I live a couple of miles from a big stinky mudhole known as "The Great Salt Lake". Also the location of the latest F-16 class A mishap. Pilot ejected safely.

Posted: 4/5/2006 7:47:56 AM EDT

[#32]

Former "Piper Aircraft" headquarters.

Penn State.

Home of Little League baseball.

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:00:47 AM EDT

[#33]

I live a few miles from the place where Larry Flint got shot when he was on trial for "pandering." Flint's lawyer was the father of a teacher at my school. The lawyer got shot too. They never caught/charged the person who shot them. Imagine getting a free pass to shoot a lawyer AND a porno king.

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:08:02 AM EDT

[#34]

Most of the movie "Meet Joe Black" was filmed at my high schools senoir campus (co located with the manor house).

Newport. I did tree surgery on the von Bulow estate, not long after Claus' trial.

The Saratoga and Forrestal are parked nearby, too, as well as the Russkie sub used in the movie "K-19:Widowmaker".

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:14:04 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
when I lived in Brooklyn or North Arlington, NJ I was with in a 30 min drive to this

Lets see......30 minutes in NYC..you were two blocks away? Waterfront property? Congrats!

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:14:47 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I live near the Oregon Trail.

I live near the end of it....

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:14:54 AM EDT

[#37]

Boll Weevil Monument.

Yes, really.

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:16:35 AM EDT

[#38]

I work in Oxford, MS, the home of Ole Miss. You can call that famous or infamous whatever you choose. There are Civil War battlefields all around North Mississippi. I live about an hour's drive south of Memphis, and there are famous and infamous things associated with that city.

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:24:13 AM EDT

[#39]

Used to live within walking distance of the Winchester Mystery House. I have been there once.

Anyone remember that Dustin Hoffman/John Travolta movie Mad City? The setting was a museum but the building was actually the San Jose Athletic Club. I had sex in that building.

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:38:32 AM EDT

[#40]

I live near the largest, privately owned home in America. The home's footprint is 4 acres on a 8,000 acre lot with a 3 mile driveway.

Posted: 4/5/2006 8:48:56 AM EDT

[#41]

The Mississippi River and the Missouri River. Also their confluence.

Fort Zumwalt and Dog Prairie are pretty close, too.

Posted: 4/5/2006 9:03:14 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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Sydney Harbour bridge, The opera house is just of the shot to the left

Thats in New Zealand?

Damn, it must have taken some nerve to steal that thing...do you think they'll miss it??

I live about 8 miles from this

Posted: 4/5/2006 9:15:57 AM EDT

[#43]

Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, Liberty Bell, National Constitution Center

Posted: 4/5/2006 9:23:53 AM EDT

[#44]

I live a little over a mile from the Kuwait Towers in Kuwait City...

Picture I took:

Posted: 4/5/2006 9:43:33 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
I live a few miles from the place where Larry Flint got shot when he was on trial for "pandering." Flint's lawyer was the father of a teacher at my school. The lawyer got shot too. They never caught/charged the person who shot them. Imagine getting a free pass to shoot a lawyer AND a porno king.

I forgot about that, I'm only 5 or 6 miles down 124 and 29.