Where In the World is This Place & What Happened?

**Sports Guy** · Nov-10-2009, 05:47 PM

Our earlier travel thread had good responses.... So I thought this thread could open up many other opportunities ... "Where in the world is this place and what happened there?" It could be a challenge thread, for a special sports event, historical or otherwise that you can be posted first as a question.... and then, the answer in replies and/or more challenges... Here is my first.

This monument is in (clue NJ) and I lived one block away from it and had lunch often while sitting on the bench and looking over to NYC.

Perhaps, you have been there? Another clue is in this attachment historic event that took place there.

Do you know where and what happened? DO NOT CLICK TOO SOON....and don't respond if you didn't know at first.

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**Viz-id/Vigilancer** · Nov-10-2009, 06:51 PM

Location. 39° 49.945′ N, 79°
By J. J. Prats, April 11, 2006

2. Braddock's Grave Monument

36.069′ W. Marker is near Farmington, Pennsylvania, in Fayette County. Marker is on National Pike (U.S. 40) 1.2 miles east of Fayette Springs Road. Click for map. One mile west of Fort Necessity National Battlefield. Marker is in this post office area: Farmington PA 15437, United States of America.

**Sports Guy** · Nov-10-2009, 07:53 PM

Thanks Viz.... great as usual.... I took the Fort Necessity tour and saw the Braddock monument and more.
Check it out with me...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqIHwCzIq_k[/ame]
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**Sports Guy** · Nov-14-2009, 08:15 AM

Now that colder weather has arrived and you might visit this location in NYC.... you can do a little inexpensive ice skating here. Click the attachment.. and see the write up. It's a popular hangout all year round.... too.
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**Sports Guy** · Nov-15-2009, 12:14 PM

For those of us that are stuck on computers all day, let me take you on another unusual location that many of us have never seen.... first, let me take you on a quick trip during the construction of this Bridge.... There is another historical summary and review at the end..check it out also.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzyxXbCtX04[/ame]
Here is an attached photo CLICK to enlarge.. OK? Anyone ever been there?
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**Sports Guy** · Dec-03-2009, 09:29 AM

This one close to my home.. and close to the famous Lambert Castle Museum... "Who is on first"....

I haven't stopped laughing yet...

**Sports Guy** · Dec-31-2009, 12:54 PM

This will be the new Sports Arena at Times Square... and this is only the practice run in the snow...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5-xG0_XmQ[/ame]

That's the way it will be tonight.. HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU ALL

**Viz-id/Vigilancer** · Dec-31-2009, 04:13 PM

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The Harding Memorial is located at the intersection OH-423 and Vernon Heights Boulevard in Marion, Ohio (Marion Township, Marion County). The coordinates are 40° 34' 22.91" N, 83° 7' 21.6" W.

The Harding Memorial is the final resting place of President Warren G. Harding and his wife. President Harding died in 1923, and his wife died a few months later. They were buried in a temporary tomb in the Marion Cemetery until the memorial was completed. The memorial was designed by Henry Hornbostel and Eric Wood, and it is made of white Georgian Marble. The memorial is HUGE...it's over fifty feet tall and is about 103 feet in diameter. There are forty-six columns. It was very expensive to construct too, it cost $783,103! Groundbreaking was in 1926, and construction was completed about a year later, in 1927. The official dedication was on June 16, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover. It is a very beautiful memorial, and it is definitely worth visiting!

**Sports Guy** · Feb-27-2010, 05:34 PM

Sorry it took me so long to follow up here...
We have had so much snow lately but our local US Mail Man still works in shirt sleeves like this.

There should be one at every postoffice.

**Sports Guy** · Jan-07-2011, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by Sports Guy

Sorry it took me so long to follow up here...
We have had so much snow lately but our local US Mail Man still works in shirt sleeves like this.

There should be one at every postoffice.

I'll try to reactivate a few threads again. This one got responses from good friend Viz (Bill)... (RIP) He never gave you a snow job.

**Kipper** · Jan-07-2011, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by Sports Guy

I'll try to reactivate a few threads again. This one got responses from good friend Viz (Bill)... (RIP) He never gave you a snow job.

You're reviving some Threads that I';m not sure any of us were trying to remember

Because of the snow/blizzard from last year that is.

I know NYC and the far east coast got wacked over the Christmas break but I really hope that major snowstorms miss us here in Pittsburgh this year. I cringe thinking of shoveling snow