Archive for March, 2009

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Roadside News: March 13, 2009

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Chicken Empathy Museum – LA | Giant Buddhist Goddess – OK | Meteorite Comes Home – AZ | VA is for Lovers of Large Bladders – VA

See Arkansas’ Electric Chairs And Torture Telephone

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

You will soon be able to see some of the more ghastly prison artifacts in Arkansas — thanks to the sale of birdhouses made by Arkansas prisoners. The Torture Telephone. That’s the upshot of a bill that was recently passed by an Arkansas Senate panel, which will allow the prisoner birdhouses to be sold in [...]

Roadside News: March 10, 2009

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Rise of the Lobster – FL | Attention All Goonies Fans – OR | Barbarians Sought – MN | Dept. Store Coal Mine – KY

Stealth Statues Evade Picky Zoning

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Let’s say that you own a business, and you want to erect an eye-catching roadside statue to pull in customers — but laws in your overly regulated community say that you can’t.

Roadside News: March 7, 2009

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Mobile Space Attraction | Burning Curiosity About Burning Town Tourists – PA | Wall of Skis – AK | Statues Feared as Movie Murder Magnets – MA

Discordant Notes At Organ Cave

Friday, March 6th, 2009

The subterranean redoubt of Organ Cave in West Virginia has always been more than just another hole in the ground. For a time it advertised itself as an “ark of safety” from nuclear bomb blasts (A role that was later filled elsewhere in West Virginia). Cover of old Organ Cave brochure. Although the Cold War [...]

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