Chris Epting

Elvis, blue jeans, Abraham Lincoln, plutonium, Slinkys, Frank Sinatra, Cobb salad, Superman, Lucille Ball, e-mail, baseball, Mark Twain, flight, McDonalds, and hundreds of other notable people and things all have birthplaces. Some are gone and marked only by a plaque, but others have been preserved and even transformed into museums. This guidebook is packed with entries on American birthplaces of all sorts, taking travellers state-by-state to a variety of locations. In this book, more than 380 birthplaces profiled, including birthplaces of all 44 presidents.

Journey through America's rock n roll history with the musical landmarks detailed in this extensive colelction... Nearly 600 locations, including birthplaces, concert locales, hotel rooms and graves, are neatly compiled and paired with historical tidbits, trivia, photographs and backstage lore - from the site where Elvis got his first guitar and Buddy's Holly's plane crashed to Sid and Nancy's hotel room and the infamous Riot House on Sunset Strip. Where was that hotel where Keith Richards threw a TV out of the window? Find out here!

This amazing portrait of the bizarre, shocking, weird and wonderful moments that have come to define American popular culture is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed James Dean Died Here and Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here. A third collection of the locations where the most significant events in American popular culture took place, this offers a fully illustrated encyclopedic look at the most famous - and infamous - pop culture events, providing historical information on more than 600 landmarks as well as their exact location.

In 1945, a watershed moment in pop culture history occured when Norma Jeane Baker walked into beauty salon at 6513 Hollywood Boulevard and changed her hair from brunette to blonde, thereby placing herself on the path to movie star immortality. With this book, Epting follows up his acclaimed James Dean Died Here with another collection of the locations where the most significant events in American popular culture took place. This fully encyclopaedic look at the most famous and infamous pop culture events includes historical information on over 600 landmarks, as well as their locations.

Offers a guide to the locations of significant popular culture events, including the crash of the Hindenburg, the "Saturday Night Fever" disco, the first MacDonald's location, and the "American Bandstand" studio.