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	<title>Trunkations &#187; Souvenirs</title>
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		<title>Souvenirs: The Terror of Tiny Towns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheap miniature metal buildings are a classic souvenir category. At one time they were made with actual metal — probably pewter — and often handily doubled  as banks or salt and pepper shakers. Today they are most likely cast from polyresin with a faux-bronze finish. But they still generally sell in a reasonable $5-10 price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Temptation Of A Souvenir</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a tourist attraction succeeds, thrives, and endures long enough, it accumulates a storeroom full of old brochures and souvenirs. While many owners toss yesteryear&#8217;s marketing into the trash and merchandise into the 25 cent bins, some hold onto their creations. They open a &#8220;museum&#8221; about the attraction&#8217;s past, to put tourists in the proper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Souvenir: Lincoln, The Great Emancigator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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When it comes to Abe Lincoln, tourist attractions haven&#8217;t been shy in finding ways to cash in and merchandise. We&#8217;ve seen all manner of misshapen statuary of our 16th President, commemorative plates, paperweights, and trashy keepsakes. Unlike Elvis Presley, there is no surviving estate with a lawyer army to crush off-brand souvenirs. But Lincoln is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Sleepy Mexican&#8221; Gets Big And Crumbly, Becomes Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big rumblings from the Arizona/Mexican border, where a Canadian and Cuban artist labor to build a 12-foot-tall sand sculpture of a sombrero-shaded sleepy Mexican.

	
	Snoozing Senor salt and pepper shakers.
The snoozing senor is &#8220;commonly found in tourist souvenirs,&#8221; according to a press release posted on artdaily.org.  It&#8217;s not all that common, but it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Uses Convention Cover To Ax Lincoln Cabin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange news from the Land of Lincoln.  The Arlington Heights Daily Herald reported that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, a democrat, flew home on the climactic day of the Democratic National Convention.  And then he immediately cut hundreds of state jobs and closed nearly two dozen historic sites and parks &#8212; including the Lincoln [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Christus Gardens Scourged By A Souvenir?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We admit that legal mumbo-jumbo is not our favorite reading genre.  But an article in The National Law Journal seems to suggest that the now-closed Christus Gardens may have been at least partly pushed into the afterlife by a souvenir in its gift shop.
The collectible in question was a miniature plastic version of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Souvenir: Hatchet Hannah Bobble Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the angriest icons in America is Hannah Duston, pioneer mom. Turning on her captors, she killed and scalped a dozen Abenaki Indians with a tomahawk in 1697, and two statues were erected to commemorate her hacking spree: one in her home town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and the other at the massacre site in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Second-Rate Souvenirs For The Second Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We recently visited the gift shop at the NRA National Firearms Museum, which claims to stock over 500 gun publications, more than any other store in the U.S., and, therefore, most likely, the world.  It also has a wall of replica guns and paint ball weapons for sale, but these each cost in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Souvenir: Argentine Corkscrew</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proof of the continuing and universal appeal of lusty gag souvenirs: We received this photo taken last week of a gift shop window in Bariloche, Argentina, a tourist mecca in the heart of the Patagonia region filled with chocolate shops and hippies.
The figure on the left bears an uncanny resemblance to the cactus cowboy we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Souvenir: Naughty Cactus Sighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cactus Penis Planter, a classic southwestern souvenir stand item that once perched on equal footing with rattlesnake heads and scorpions in lucite, has done a slow fade from the nation&#8217;s gift stands.  It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve seen one. We suspected the politically prickly novelties were a thing of the past, like [...]]]></description>
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