Archive for November, 2008
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Friday, November 21st, 2008It sounded great and a number of towns wanted it — a nearly-life-size Statue of Liberty, built for an online travel company’s sales convention, donated free of charge by its creators. Hammond, Indiana, won the battle for the Lady, and plans were laid to erect the 130-foot-tall styrofoam sculpture on an island in a local [...]
New Digs For Georgia Creation Museum
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008For the last ten years Joseph Hurt has run his Creation And Natural History Museum out of downtown Stone Mountain, Georgia. Now he’s moved it 40 miles east to the town of Social Circle — 50 exhibits packed into eight 53-foot trailers. The grand opening is November 20. Hurt and his family have designed attraction [...]
Titanic II To Dock in Pigeon Forge
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Apparently based on the success of the monstrous Titanic attraction in Branson, MO, a second doomed ocean liner-shaped facility will be erected in tourist mecca Pigeon Forge, TN by Spring 2010. Artist’s concept of the new Titanic attraction. We like this artist’s concept of the new place. Branson broke the ice, in a way, on [...]
Ruby Slippers? No, Ruby’s Shoes!
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Saturday, November 22, is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In remembrance, Wayne Lensing is giving the public a special viewing — of the shoes worn by Jack Ruby when he shot Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Wayne is the guiding force behind Historic Auto Attractions in Roscoe, Illinois, and a [...]
Regal Ware Museum: More Than Percolators
Monday, November 17th, 2008We admit that our interest in kitchenware is usually on a back burner, unless there are miracles involved. But that attitude will have to change with the recent opening of the West Bend/Regal Ware Historic Museum in West Bend, Wisconsin. The West Bend and Regal Ware companies make cooking aids, and the museum showcases nearly [...]
Feeling Lean? More SPAM, Please!
Sunday, November 16th, 2008An article in the New York Times singled out SPAM — America’s iconic mystery meat — as “perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.” It then suggested that the economic collapse was good news for SPAM workers in Austin, Minnesota, since penny-pinching Americans will be more apt to eat what they produce. We [...]
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