Iggy Pop & The Stooges in Ann Arbor

Here’s the honest, properly-sourced version, because the internet gets this one muddled: 114 N. Division is where a young James Osterberg — soon to be Iggy Pop — lived during his Ann Arbor years. It was the longtime home base of his pre-Stooges blues band, the Prime Movers (the band that gave him the “Iggy” nickname).

The Stooges themselves were actually born a short drive away, in the basement of the Asheton family home, where Iggy and brothers Ron and Scott Asheton reportedly named the group while watching a Three Stooges TV marathon in 1967. And the legendary “Fun House” — the rented farmhouse on the edge of town where they prepped their savage second album — is sadly long demolished. So consider 114 N. Division the anchor: the surviving, standing address at the center of the Ann Arbor scene that, alongside the MC5, more or less invented punk rock a decade before anyone called it that. Stand here and you’re in the cradle of “Search and Destroy.” Start at Iggy’s childhood home nearby and make it a loop.