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Bayou Bob Nabbed for Rattlesnake Vodka Elixir

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

“Bayou Bob” Popplewell is a clever entrepreneur — we could see that immediately. When we visited him in Santo, Texas one summer, he had a dozen snake-related projects-for-profit going in the gift shop of Bayou Bob’s Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch. Snake skins hanging from the rafters, snake taxidermy, snake souvenirs for sale, a live snake [...]

Waco Spared Revenge of Corpse Titan

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

In February, the Waco, Texas, City Council rejected a proposed 70-foot-tall rifle-toting statue that would have stood outside of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. It may turn out to have been a prudent decision.
A lengthy article in the March 23 Waco Tribune-Herald reveals that the property occupied by the Texas Ranger Hall of [...]

Geese Terror Cutouts: The New Fat Lady Butt?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

A keen observer of ripples and perturbations in the fabric of civilization, our friend Steve Crandall noticed Geese-Dog cutouts with bandanas appearing in suburban NJ. Steve writes “About a month ago some dog silhouettes popped up around the ponds here. The geese didn’t care until someone put red and white bandanas on them. [...]

Rogue Head Makes Unexpected Appearance

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

It was only a tourist attraction for an hour or so, but a bust of a man caused a ruckus when it mysteriously appeared in St. Petersburg, Florida. A driver reported the bust, glued to a concrete guardrail on the Misener Bridge on southbound I-275, during morning rush hour on March 19 — and [...]

Airstream Ranch at Dead End?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

On March 14, 2008, Frank Bates went before the Hillsborough County Code Enforcement Board to plead his case for the preservation of Airstream Ranch. The collection of eight old Airstream trailers along I-4 east of Tampa, Florida, set on end in the ground like prehistoric megaliths, had drawn widespread attention since it was erected [...]

Hello from RoadsideAmerica.com’s Blog

Monday, March 24th, 2008

It’s a blog. Trunkations is where we’ll post our musings and rants — because, honestly, there’s so much more to say than we already have, in 12+ years of writing about strange tourist attractions on RoadsideAmerica.com.
The blog will give us a convenient spot to jaw about odd projects we think you really need to [...]

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