Have you ever visited the home of a famous person?

This is a picture of the dining room at Graceland. - Here is a picture of the dining room, I'm guessing there is probably another dining room, but...
@AmbiePam (85321)
United States
August 5, 2009 6:59pm CST
My sister and brother-in-law went to Graceland yesterday on their trip. My sister had already been there some years ago. But for their trip they decided to stop by the former home of Elvis and let my brother-in-law check it out too. I think I'd like to visit Monticello, the place Thomas Jefferson called home years and years ago. I included one of the pictures they took and sent me through e-mail.
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@psphacker (1053)
• United States
6 Aug 09
No I have never visited the home of a famous person but I would like to visit the house of these chicano rappers 2Mex Akwid (Los Angeles, CA) A.L.T. Aztlan Underground B-Real (Cypress Hill) Baby Bash (Vallejo, CA) Brownside (South Los Angeles, CA) Chingo Bling (Houston, TX) Cuete Yeska (Wicked Minds) Cypress Hill Delinquent Habits Down AKA Kilo (Oxnard, CA) Duende (Las Vegas, NV) Funky Aztecs Jae-P Kid Frost (East Los Angeles, CA) Kinto Sol Knight Owl (San Diego, CA) Lighter Shade of Brown (Riverside, CA) Lil Rob (San Diego CA) MC Magic (of NB Ridaz) NB Ridaz Nino Brown Proper Dos (Santa Monica, CA) Psycho Realm Slow Pain South Park Mexican Tha Mexakinz
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I have never visited the home of a famous person but I think that it would be very interesting to do so. I'll have to check the photo out after I respond to this as on the emails, you can't see the photo!
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I know. I wish they'd include a way to see the picture in the e-mail.
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@GardenGerty (157494)
• United States
6 Aug 09
The Eisenhower boyhood home is near here. About an hour away. I know it is nowhere near as elaborate as either Graceland or Monticello, but the Library and Museum are quite nice to visit. You can learn a lot about history from visiting it.
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• India
6 Aug 09
Oh! Thats so cool. I am very fond of Museums. I feel time stays still in places like an old museum or a historical place, heritage sites etc. I also feel they have seen so much, the place itself starts having a soul. :)
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@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I've never visited Graceland, but it's on my wish list. Nice shot of the dining room. For some reason, I pictured something less formal. We I was really young, on a family vacation we did visit Monticello and Mt. Vernon where George Washington lived. I don't remember much, other than wanting to leave to do something 'fun'...lol. I used to reside in Amherst MA, so I've been to the Emily Dickenson house, that was nice.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
My mom really wants to see Mt. Vernon. On a vacation quite a while ago my family saw the Belle Meade Mansion. The plantation was amazing. It's more of a place to revisit history back in the day, more than where a specific famous person lived. I remember how grand it all was.
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• India
6 Aug 09
Even I want to visit Mt. Vermon. Have heard a lot about it. I have even done some research on the place. My husband and I had planned a trip sometime back but it never happened. I am keen to visit it. So I guess we will do it sometime soon. Thanks for reminding me. :)
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• India
6 Aug 09
Oops! Sorry for the typo. Mt. Vernon. :)
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
6 Aug 09
Some years ago, I visited the villa in Arqua where the Italian renaissance poet, Petrarch, spent his final years. It was part of a college field trip, and our lecturer was a Renaissance expert. He told us that the surrounding countryside was totally unspoilt, and the view we were looking at was what Petrarch had looked at almost 700 years ago. That was wonderful, but when we looked at the visitor's book, we discovered that Lord Byron and Percy and Mary Shelley had visited in 1817, at the time when Mary had the idea for writing Frankenstein. For a literature student like myself, this discovery was magical.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I can totally understand that.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Were you really a lit student Sandra? Guess what, small world again.
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• Spain
6 Aug 09
Hello Thea - stalking me again! I was a (very) mature student. I gained my BA in Literature in History in 2001, and an MA in Anglo American Literary Relations in 2003. The Italian trip was a field trip for the History faculty in 2000. We went in a minibus and camped on Lake Garda, and as Tony and I had only recently got married, he was allowed to come along as well, so it was a belated honeymoon, as well as a wonderful trip.
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• United States
6 Aug 09
I have been to the home of Sarah Winchester (Winchester Mystery House) if you are talking historical landmark type, famous person's homes. AS far as living famous people go, I was hired a few years ago to entertain at the home of a certain local football hall of famer ( a former 49er), for his daughter's birthday party.
@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Hmmm...I'm thinking Steve Young.
@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
19 Aug 09
Jerry Rice? My dad met him once. In the bathroom of an airport! lol
• United States
6 Aug 09
No, not a quarter back.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Well, I visited Ricky Skaggs old home place he grew up in Blaine, KY since I lived a few houses down when I lived in Blaine,Ky from age 12-14. We also visited his parents whom had a newer home built next to it. We even got to see him a few times when he was visiting his parents. But other then that..nope. Always wanted to visit Graceland though. I wonder if Michael Jackson Home will be fixed up like Elvis's was for people to visit and do tours?
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I think his fans would love the opportunity to be able to have the honor of touring his home and seeing the things he loved and cherished. Yeah it would bring in alot of revenue. So that is the upside of it..but people would also try to steal things..that is the downside..
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
It would certainly pay back his debtors AND provide plenty of money for his kids. Not that the kids won't already be taken care of.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
6 Aug 09
Hi my friend AmbiePam. I went to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and thought it was so sad the the girl's family got sent to a concentration camp. They hid in the house during World War II. I went to the Corrie Ten Boom house as well. She hid Jewish people during that same period in history. When I was in Samoa I visited the home of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author. I went to Austria and visited Mozart's house in Salzburg.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Oh I loved Corrie Ten Boom. I have seen her speak on tape so many times. I only wish I could have met her in person. And of course Anne Frank is commonly assigned reading in junior high and high school.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Aug 09
Nope can't say I've ever been to Graceland...but when I was a little kid went on a class field trip to Washington, D.C. and actually did the tour thing at The White House...crap so long ago can't even remember who the president was at that time...LOL I guess another "famous" home is the now Frick Museum in Manhattan that used to be owned by Henry Clay Frick who was one of those millionaire tycoons in the same vein as Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc...that "home" of his is the entire city block..uh, BIG place Wow just looked it up and guess what...to give you an idea of how large this "home" was here's a Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCr0ndB4_hk
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
14 Aug 09
Whoa!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Aug 09
The Frick "home" makes Presley's Graceland look like a quaint country cottage....LOL
• United States
8 Aug 09
I went to Graceland as a kid. But that's about it.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Sounds good to me.
@jerzgirl (9226)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I went to FDR's home on the Hudson in New York a few years ago up in Hyde Park. I went to Belle Mead plantation home outside of Nashville, also a few years back, where President Taft was a periodic guest. It's funny, though, because as many times as I've been to Washington, DC, I've never been to Monticello or Mt. Vernon. But, I did get to Paula Deen's restaurant in Savannah, the Lady and Sons. It was wonderful! I hope to go again.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I loved Belle Mead Plantation! Although the heat almost killed me since I went in the summer.
@jerzgirl (9226)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I loved the shower there with all the different sprayers along the sides! We go South when the weather is cooler. Neither of us can stand the heat either.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
6 Aug 09
I am definitely going to Graceland if I reach Tennessee again. There was just not enough time the last time I went there. I have visited a number of famous homes when I lived in the U.K. - Blenheim Palace was magnificent. This was the family home of Sir Winston Churchill's family. He was our Prime Minister during the Second World War. We have Great Houses on the Island that I have visited too. Sorry, my mind is mushy today. I do hope that your health is o.k.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Winston Churchill. I wish he were around now days.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
7 Aug 09
He was such a great man and did so much for the U.K. and for the world.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi AmbiePam, I've visited Shakespeare's house in Stratford upon Avon in the past, and it is still intact. The rooms are just so small compared to modern rooms it shows how much smaller the people were then. I've also visited lots of stately homes in Britain, some of the families still live in the houses but rope bits off to stop the visitors wandering in to their private quarters.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
To have visited the former home of Shakespeare must have been incredible.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Sandra you really should take the chance to go up now whilst you're back in the UK. I've been many times, it's a lovely town, hit the theatre, row on the Avon and hang round at the Dirty Duck. Even been backstage.
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• Spain
6 Aug 09
Sandra stalking Thea! Now I'm really jealous! I've never been to Stratford, and Shakespeare is my hero. I did two dissertations on Shakespeare for my degrees. No matter how much I read or watch the plays, I always find something new.
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@yogambal_64 (1014)
• India
6 Aug 09
No I have never visited the house of any famous person, but we had a famous actor who visited our place during his shooting schedule as my father in law had made arrangement for their stay and food. We still have treasured the snap we had all taken with him long back.
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• India
6 Aug 09
Hi, Yogambal. That must have been exciting right? Who was this actor? It is always an exciting thing to have a famous person stay with us or visit us. It really perks up the whole house and the vibrancy of the person stays a long time even after the person leaves.
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
6 Aug 09
I have been to Graceland myself about when I was 16 it was a really neat place to see. My aunt use to live in Memphis Tennesse then. I with my grandmother, my little sister and my other aunt. It's a place worth seeing.
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6 Aug 09
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
6 Aug 09
No I never do. at least not that I remember. I do visit historical places but they are not homes, more like castles. my in laws mentioned about 1000 year old castles in England now that gives me an idea of ghostbusting just need the plane tickets and a very good rain jacket
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
@Grandmaof2 (7579)
• Canada
6 Aug 09
I've really never gave this much thought because I thought for sure you'd not be able to get close enough to see much. I'd definately pick Graceland if you really could get close enough.
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
You really can get pretty close. She sent me some other pictures, and they are really good ones.
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
6 Aug 09
Visiting Graceland is like one of the coolest thing to do in one's lifetime... i would love to go there before i die... When i was still in college... my classmates and i decided to visit the old home of Ninoy Aquino... he is like the most contemporary hero of my country... his wife was just buried yesterday... and it was such an event... well, we did not get to go inside the house but the caretaker did allow us to wander in the garden and take a peak through the windows... small thing but was like a momentous event for us because we were all history majors...
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Oh yes, I read about his wife's passing. That must be quite a memory to have.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I have also been to Graceland.....also John Waynes birth home...and a few others...Graceland was wonderful....John Waynes birthplace was a little shack in a small town in Iowa.....My most favorite place though was when I went to Florida and my daughter and I took a road trip to Bellingrath gardens.....home of the gentleman who invented Coca Cola....it was stunning!
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@AmbiePam (85321)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Sounds cool!
• Philippines
6 Aug 09
Yes I have, during my childhood days, we had a field trip at MalacaƱang Palace. Of course we all know that it is where presidents stay during their term. It was such a beautiful place, it really reflects Filipino heritage.
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• India
6 Aug 09
Wow! That must have been exciting isn't it? I have always wanted to visit the President's home. But in my country it is not a place that people can visit. Hence it is not possible for me to see the place. But I have read somewhere that it is a very beautiful looking building.
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