FOR ALL MY AMERICAN FRIENDS. SENDING LOVE TODAY. HAPPY THANKSGIVING... Here are some interesting facts about Americans in London to celebrate! 1. One of the passengers on the Central Line’s first-ever train in 1900 was Mark Twain. 2. Theodore Roosevelt got married at St George’s Church in Hanover Square – his wife Edith’s middle name was... Kermit. 3. Bing Crosby liked to practise his golf in the famously wide corridors at Claridges. 4. Everyone thinks the Bob Dylan video for Subterranean Homesick Blues was shot in New York. But it was filmed in an alleyway at the back of the Savoy Hotel. 5. There’s a twisted metal girder from the World Trade Center buried underneath the memorial in Grosvenor Square to British victims of the 9/11 attacks. 6. Frank Sinatra once gave a huge tip to a London doorman, saying “I bet no one’s ever given you a tip as big as that before.” “They have,” came the reply. “Who?” Sinatra asked. “You... last time you were here.” 7. Harry Gordon Selfridge, US-born founder of the Oxford Street store, claimed to have coined the phrase “the customer is always right”. 8. Jimi Hendrix lived at 23 Brook Street, W1 during 1968 and 1969. While there he became a fan of Coronation Street, and of Ena Sharples in particular. 9. Benjamin Franklin once worked in London as a scientist. He conducted a famous experiment where one drop of oil spread to cover a whole pond on Clapham Common.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:56:08 +0000
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