Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited

Doog_de_Jour

I just got done reading “Son of the Morning Star”, a book about Custer and Little Bighorn and it made me reminisce about visiting the battlefield when I was little.

https://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm



Not to steal @TopicalChica’s thunder here, but what are some of your favorite places of historical interest you’ve visited?

GrundleStiltzkin

That’s near the top for me. There’s a few other battlefields in Montana and Wyoming that we visited but I can’t rememer names now so there’s that.

Had a few historical walks around Philadelphia that were awesome. Ellis Island was more impactful than I had expected. The Alamo.

Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial is unforgettable.

Close to home, Fort Warden and Fort Casey.

RaceBannon

We stopped by the Little Big Horn on a road trip to the Colorado game in 2000. Did some Lewis and Clark stuff. Saw wagon ruts in the Oregon trail in Nebraska and Wyoming. Did Mt Rushmore and the Tetons and Yellowstone too.

Wore a MAGA hat to DC and lived

El_K

I have had my photo taken behind the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and done the book depository tour

I have been to the Alamo as well. It is about the size of a Taco Bell. I asked if I could see the basement as well

Doog_de_Jour

El_K said:

I have had my photo taken behind the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and done the book depository tour

I have been to the Alamo as well. It is about the size of a Taco Bell. I asked if I could see the basement as well

@Pitchfork51, true?

Alamo is definitely on my list...and yes, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure had a big part in that.

GrundleStiltzkin

@Doog_de_Jour is Son of the Morning Star a good book? I’m pretty sure my dad had a copy of that and I tried reading when I was a kid but it was beyond me then.

Doog_de_Jour

GrundleStiltzkin said:

@Doog_de_Jour is Son of the Morning Star a good book? I’m pretty sure my dad had a copy of that and I tried reading when I was a kid but it was beyond me then.

It is good, but it’s oddly structured, which I didn’t mind but some may find off putting. It hops around from the narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn to a history of the relations between white settlers and the native tribes, then back to Custer’s army career, then back to the battle.

There was a TV movie made back in the early nineties based on the book, which isn’t too bad. It starred Gary “Bill Lumbergh” Cole as Custer, and he actually did a fine job.

HillsboroDuck

The Dawgman free bird, pre later guys version.

*RIP*

Doog_de_Jour

HillsboroDuck said:

The Dawgman free bird, pre later guys version.

*RIP*

I miss Lynyrd Skynyrd too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W1v0kOELA

RaceBannon

El_K said:

I have had my photo taken behind the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and done the book depository tour

I have been to the Alamo as well. It is about the size of a Taco Bell. I asked if I could see the basement as well

Did the Texas trip too. Enjoyed it. Couldn't believe you could make the shot but sharp shooters have reenacted it

FireCohen

red square s/o to stalin

PurpleThrobber

One of the Throbber's two dads was a Korean War vet. RIP, TYFYS.

Cried like a baby when visiting the KW Monument in DC after his passing. Like a fucking baby.

YellowSnow

The old ASUW shellhouse on the shores of the Montlake Cut.

BennyBeaver

When I finally get to the cemetery in Normandy, that will be my favorite historical site I’ve visited.

PurpleThrobber

The Throbber did visit the 9-11 site about two years hence....that was a terk jerker, for sure. Too soon. Too fucking soon.

YellowSnow

BennyBeaver said:

When I finally get to the cemetery in Normandy, that will be my favorite historical site I’ve visited.

D-Day was nothing speshial I’m hearing.

YellowSnow

El_K said:

I have had my photo taken behind the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and done the book depository tour

I have been to the Alamo as well. It is about the size of a Taco Bell. I asked if I could see the basement as well

I looked out the window of the 6th floor depository and concluded Oswald acted alone.

GrundleStiltzkin

BennyBeaver said:

When I finally get to the cemetery in Normandy, that will be my favorite historical site I’ve visited.

Earn this

YellowSnow

Graceland, Memphis, TN is cheesy Americana but totally awesome. Elvis’s gun collection alone is worth it.

Shout out to our dear departed brother @dnc .

Doog_de_Jour

YellowSnow said:

Graceland, Memphis, TN is cheesy Americana but totally awesome. Elvis’s gun collection alone is worth it.

Shout out to our dear departed brother @dnc .

Was the shot out TV on display?

minion_doog