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Michael Jackson Concert Venues

As a tribute to Michael Jackson, we dug through the web to list some significant Michael Jackson concert venues in the United States. His last concert as part of a world tour in the United States was on January 27, 1989 (20 YEARS AGO!) in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, not far at all from Staples Center.

Other stops on the Bad World Tour were in:

• Kemper Arena in Kansas City
• Madison Square Garden in New York
• St. Louis Arena (demolished)
• Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY
• McNichols Sports Arena in Denver (demolished)
• Hartford Civic Center
• The Summit in Houston (now Lakewood Church)
  
• The Omni in Atlanta (demolished)
• Rosemont Horizon in Chicago
• Reunion Arena in Dallas
• Met Center in Minneapolis (demolished)
• Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (now known as Verizon Wireless - not to be confused with the Verizon Wireless in Virginia)
• The Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit
• Capital Centre (demolished) in Washington DC
• Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland
• The Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey
• Civic Arena (now called the Mellon Arena) in Pittsburgh

Prior to that - The Jackson's 1984 Victory Tour took him to 17 US cities:

• Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO
• Texas Stadium in Dallas
• Gator Bowl in Jacksonville
• Giants Stadium in New Jersey
• Madison Square Garden in NY
• RFK Stadium in Washington, DC
• Neyland Stadium  in Knoxville
• Pontiac Silverdome  in Detroit
• Rich Stadium  in Buffalo
• JFK Stadium  in Philadelphia (demolished)
• Mile High Stadium  Denver
• Comiskey Park in  Chicago
• Cleveland Stadium
• Fulton County Stadium in  Atlanta (demolished)
• Miami's Orange Bowl
• Houston Astrodome
• Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles

The Jackson's 1981 Triumph Tour took him to 39 US cities. I will list them in a future post (assuming this post is well received by MJ fans)

Interested in a pilgrimage to sites of his more recent appearances:

• Performed Rock With You as part of the 1980 UNICEF Benefit Concert at Nassau Coliseum in New York
• On Sept 10, 2001 (and three days before) at Madison Square Garden in New York
• United We Stand: What More Can I Give charity concert (for Sept 11 victims) at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC
• Pasadena, California - as part of "American Bandstand 50th.. A Celebration:"
• Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York in 2002, his final appearance in the United States

To the best of my knowledge, Michael Jackson never performed on Broadway, but he did perform with the Jackson 5 at Radio City Music Hall.

When will he stop?

Donald Trump and Steven Carl (a caterer) are proposing a restaurant/banquet hall to develop at Jones Beach. Diane Yatauro, Nassau County’s presiding officer backs Trump in this fiasco, so that’s another strong point for Trump and Co.

Newsday quotes Trump: "As a New Yorker with an eye on historical significance, I am pleased to be a part of the history of Jones Beach."

It’s not that I’m against Trump or against building a nice banquet hall on Jones Beach, it’s this particular model which I find distasteful and gaudy.

Thanx newsday.com

I guess I’m not the only one who feels that way. The Newsday article continues: “In addition to surprise over the dimensions of Trump's moniker, "it doesn't look like the materials that we outlined or have agreed to."”

And the defense?: "This is solely, 100-percent, down to the square foot, what was approved earlier this year in the blueprints -- they just haven't seen the 3-D visualization of it," insisted Michael Russo, who has managed the project for the architectural firm of Hawkins Webb Jaeger.

Other ridiculous monstrosities in the area bearing the Trump family name include:

1. The Trump International Hotel and Tower Fitness Center and Spa, New York City
2. Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City
3. Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, Atlantic City
4. Trump Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City
5. Trump Hotel Casino, Gary, Indiana (ok, this one is a bit out of town)

Maybe I’m just jealous of rich people. That’s come up before, hasn’t it?

Picture of NYC on September 11

(thanks larimdame)

Picture of the Day (05/23/07) - From TripCart

A great night shot of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison.

(thanks robbyb)

Picture of the Day (05/15/07) - From TripCart

Sunset near the construction of new hotels (The Palazzo, Wynn Encore and Echelon Place) cropping up around the Wynn in Las Vegas.

(thanks glorious las vegas)

AIA and Google Earth Team Up

The AIA has been going all out this year to celebrate their 150th anniversary, we told you about their new website a few weeks ago. Now they've gotten together with Google Earth and rendered the top 150 architectural wonders in 3D using Google's Sketchup program. You can download the KML feed here so that they all pop-up in your Google Earth.

Related Travel Guide topics: Empire State Building - Architecture in Manhattan and New York City - Architecture in Mid Atlantic

(thanks pulse 2.0)

Vote for Your Favorite American Architecture

The American Institute of Architects compiled their list of the 150 most significant architectual structures in the US.  You can now view all of them and vote for your favorite at the America's Favorite Architecture website.  You won't be surprised by anything you see in the top 10, but to our eye, the good stuff is towards the back of the pack.  Head over and vote for your favorite and find some inspiration for your next weekend getaway.

(thanks swissmiss)

Related posts: AIA and Google Earth Team Up • Spiffing-up Seattle • Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art Opens on the Water • Steve's Weird House in Seattle • Recycling Vegas • Art Gets Bigger in the Mile High City

Picture of the Day (04/01/07) - From TripCart

Sunset at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

(thanks Nathan!)

FLW in LA

If you're going to be in southern California in the near future and you want to see Frank Lloyd Wright's contributions, you might want to check out this beautiful website first.  There are stunning photos of five different projects that FLW worked on around Hollywood, they include the Hollyhock House, the Ennis House, the Storer House, the Freeman House and La Miniatura.  For us, the Storer House steals the show but unfortunately the site doesn't show the interiors of any of the houses.

Picture of the Day (03/09/07) - From TripCart

1982, Financial District, Shaklee Terraces,
444 Market St., San Francisco.
Skidmore Owings and Merrill.

The rolled-back Market Street facade and finely scaled flush aluminum skin make this one of the more ingratiating of this generation of towers. It is connected by a hyphen to the 1908 Postal Telegraph Building by Lewis Hobart at 22 Battery Street. (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 33).

West of Front Street in the next block is the Sanwa Bank Building (14) (1982) at 444 Market, also by SOM. The rolling vertical curves are shaped in aluminum, and the top of the building features a series of setbacks with trees on terraces that predate the Planning Department's regulation calling for setbacks in 1985 (Wiley 2000: 160)

                                                                                                        -verlang.com

(thanks Thomas Hawk)

America's 150 Favorite Pieces of Architecture

The American Institute of Architects just released a list of 150 architectural wonders in America-

America’s Favorite Architecture is the result of an AIA and Harris Interactive poll of 1,800 Americans naming their 150 favorite structures across the nation based on nominations from AIA member architects.

According to their list American architecture's in the toilet, only a few of the buildings in the top 50 were built in the last 50 years and most of them were built for the government, boring.  Here's their uninspiring top 10.  The buildings toward the end of the list are a lot more interesting.

1. Empire State Building
2. The White House
3. Washington National Cathedral
4. Thomas Jefferson Memorial
5. Golden Gate Bridge
6. U.S. Capitol
7. Lincoln Memorial
8. Biltmore Estates
9. Chrysler Building
10. Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Related posts: AIA and Google Earth Team Up • Spiffing-up Seattle • Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art Opens on the Water • My Pumpkin Is Bigger Than Yours • Rooftop Wetness • Art Gets Bigger in the Mile High City

Related travel guides: Architecture in Manhattan and New York City

Crossing Over the Great Divide

Well, maybe you can't cross over all of the Grand Canyon but starting in March you'll be able to at least lean over the great abyss. The new walkway, dubbed Skywalk, will stick out about 70 feet from the rim of the canyon allowing visitors to peer down 4,000 feet to the floor of the chasm. A mere four inches of glass will keep them from plummeting to their death. The hope is that the new Skywalk will increase visitation to this remote Western side of the park where a mere 125,000 visitors came last year (compared to roughly four million in other parts of the park). We've been hearing about this thing for ages, hopefully it's finally close to fruition.

Related posts: Grand Canyon Skywalk Reviewed • Skywalk Over the Grand Canyon Up and Running • Kartchner Caverns in Arizona • Listen to the Desert • 18th Annual National Geographic Photo Contest Winners

Related travel guides: Golf near the Grand Canyon • Hotels near the Grand Canyon • Nature and wildlife near the Grand Canyon • Skiing near the Grand Canyon • Shopping near the Grand Canyon

Notes from the Underground

Many a city wouldn't be the same with out its subway. We're still tooling around Boston, now that we've got our Coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island guide online, and came across this beautiful page full of wonderful pictures of subway stations from around the world. Some of these stations house aquariums, museums, ancient chapels, and lots and lots of tiles - but we think Dostoevsky's motherland makes subway stations like no others. Take a gander at these impressive stations - New York, DC, and LA also made the cut.

(thanks digg)