Author Chris Epting established a new genre in book publishing when a trio of titles in the early 2000s—
James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America’s Pop Culture Landmarks
,
Elvis Presley Passed Here
, and
Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here
—were released to critical acclaim and introduced readers to a groundbreaking travel concept: The pop culture road trip. Epting promptly followed these hugely popular and influential titles with two more legendary books:
Led Zeppelin Crashed Here
and
Roadside Baseball
.
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pick at the time,
James Dean Died Here
was covered by such major news outlets as NPR’s "All Things Considered,"
USA Today
Los Angeles Times
Publishers Weekly
. Everyone from Ken Burns to
The Sporting News
to the
New York Post
expressed their love for
, while
was recommended for all public libraries by
Library Journal
and outlets from the
Associated Press
to
Newsday
encouraged any fan of rock and roll history to buy the book.
Now, in honor of the 20th anniversary of
, Epting has produced
It Happened Right Here: America’s Pop Culture Landmarks
, which collects the best of the best from all of Epting’s prior books, and then adds dozens and dozens of new sites, many of them based on the pop culture of the 21st century.
It Happened Right Here
once again takes you on a journey across North America to the exact locations where the most significant events in American popular culture took place. It’s a road map for pop culture sites, from Patty Hearst’s bank to the garage where Apple Computer was born. Fully updated, the book includes such new entries as:
• The locations featured in such television series as
Stranger Things
Breaking Bad
, and
Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Locations celebrating the legacy of legendary musician Prince
• The dorm room where Facebook was created
• The location of the opening freeway sequence from
La La Land
• The locations featured in the cult film
Napoleon Dynamite
• The Jay-Z, Beyonce, Solange elevator incident
• The Jussie Smollett Subway sandwich shop location
• Steve Bartman's seat location at Wrigley Field
• and dozens and dozens of other new sites!
Featuring hundreds of photographs, this fully illustrated, updated, and revised encyclopedic look at the locations of the most famous and infamous pop culture events includes the fascinating history of over a thousand landmarks—as well as their exact location. With up-to-date information for the sites included in Epting’s five original titles, plus dozens and dozens of new additions,
is an amazing portrait of the bizarre, shocking, weird and wonderful moments that have come to define American popular culture.