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http://www.roadsideamerica.com/Nipper the RCA dog from my adopted state of NY.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1910
LumosMaxima
(585 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)many interesting things on RSA site.
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)a couple months ago - we were in Oviedo to get a mirror framed at a little shop and I saw the chickens in the parking lot just wandering around like they owned the place. My wife said "They do! You never heard of the Oviedo chickens?!" ANd I had to admit I had not - even though I worked in Oviedo for a year a while back.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/11246
The town of Oviedo in central Florida has a fairly large (30+) breeding populaton of wild chickens nesting and generally milling about in the downtown area. The local merchants feed them, and some sell t-shirts celebrating the chickens. ("Crazy about chickens" and "Poultry in Motion" are two local favorites.) The chickens have been here for approximately 30 years, and are often seen crossing the main roads in downtown Oviedo, and, I swear this is true, loitering in the drive-thru of the nearby fast food fried chicken restaurant.
and a pic I took
amerikat
(4,909 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Took a vacation there the other year. The roosters own the island.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)see if they can set up a sister city kind of thing!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)The maple will have to groom itself. And rake it's own leaves.
quercus alba...white oak?
amerikat
(4,909 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)and just because California's weird enough for two suggestions: Emperor Norton's Grave http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/138
amerikat
(4,909 posts)and was in a prison in Cali. Love cheesy museums. Maybe someday I will get to Roswell NM.
amerikat
(4,909 posts)That stretch for hundreds of miles from Florida to Virgina. When you get there it's a giant fireworks store, but after hundred of miles everyone needs a cup of coffee and to stretch the legs. I saw a similar campaign in Arizona. Chief yellow horse loves you. went on for maybe a hundred miles. Chief yellow horse was selling local trinkets. I bought some and love chief yellow horse right back.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Kali, you are awesome for posting our lounge buddy!!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)La Crosse ...
La Crosse, Wisconsin
On the north entry into the river city of La Crosse, the welcome sign is topped with a fiberglass sculpture depicting three Ho-Chunk Indians playing a lively game of Lacrosse. Two braves reach with outstretched tree-branch racquets for the ball, while a third athlete lies at their feet.
Artist Elmer Petersen created the original statue in Cor-Ten steel, and it was erected downtown on Main St in 1980. It was eventually replaced with a bronze casting.
amerikat
(4,909 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)Chisel and add some detail to those eyes.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)It ought to be called Java Dive, but it looks cool on the outside...
amerikat
(4,909 posts)caraher
(6,279 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)They still paint some planes that way.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)without the right clothing.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Captain Kirk's ancestor, Bob Wieland-Kirk, watches the skies above Riverside for possible Klingon sneak attack.
amerikat
(4,909 posts)Very cool in it's concept.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2235
Seattle, Washington
This is a famous landmark south of Seattle, originally part of a cowboy-themed gas station built in 1954 named "Premium Tex." The orange hat, 19 feet tall and 44 feet wide, sheltered the station office; the boots were Cowboys and Cowgirls bathrooms (the slightly smaller one was for the ladies).
Its owners hoped to expand the gas station into a Western-themed shopping center named "Frontier Village," but the effort proved unsuccessful. The gas station closed in 1988, and Hat 'n' Boots sank into a period of decay and vandalism. Skateboarders cracked the brim of the Hat.
amerikat
(4,909 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)Thanks for the music Mr. S
irisblue
(33,023 posts)of course I did notice Santa wrote exactly like her in1968.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)BobUp
(347 posts)Taken if front of Sparky's in New Mexico...
http://sparkysburgers.com/
amerikat
(4,909 posts)they have a deer buck's head mounted high on a wall, and while you're eating, it stares down at you. Creepy.
They once had a large pink pig, about 20 feet tall in the parking lot they own across the street, but some people complained about it, and the NMDOT was trying to make them remove it.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_14300031
http://www.nmgastronome.com/?p=7837
According to this web page, I think the battle to keep the pink pig won.
http://sparkysburgers.com/tag/new-mexico/
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)MissMillie
(38,578 posts)And the worlds largest chair
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)Makes me wonder what they were licking to produce such a fine hairball.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)I'll have to go back and check on the perpetual motion machine. It looks very much like mine.
petronius
(26,603 posts)amerikat
(4,909 posts)a place to stay for the night.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Anchorage, Alaska - Outhouse Races - Fur Rendezvous
Every year during a Festival called Fur Rendezvous (or "Fur Rondy" , people bring their homemade outhouses that they have decorated in various fashions downtown. One person has to be in the outhouse, and the others either push or pull it through the snow.
They also have snowshoe softball games. The people who are playing softball have to wear snowshoes. They also hold car races at the Fur Rendezvous Festival. The track is downtown, and it is made of ice.
I have pictures of these things. The outhouse races are hilarious.
amerikat
(4,909 posts)I work for a company that builds stuff for theme parks. last year we built
the DR. Who Tardis. We won needless to say.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)28 foot tall Viking in Alexandria Minnesota declaring "The Birthplace of America" (because the Kensington Runestone was found there, Columbus ain't shit in Minnesota)
amerikat
(4,909 posts)Columbus was a wimp in comarison
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I don;t live there anymore but it was literally a way we gave direction to the Taconic State parkway:
Giant Prozac Pill
A giant Prozac pill sits on someone's lawn at this intersection right near the Giant fork in the road:
Ptah
(33,037 posts)Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12603
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NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)Ten-Foot-Tall Green Aliens
There's only one road into Carlsbad Caverns and you have to drive right through White's City. If you look to your left as you're driving in you'll see a couple of ten-foot-tall wooden green aliens out in front of the White's City Trading Post. They seem totally out of place but, hey, weird is where you find it.