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		<title>Lucy In The Sky With Damage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy The Margate Elephant, that great, grey, wide-window-eyed wonder of the Jersey shore, suffered serious injury this fall when strong September winds lifted a party tent up off its moorings and into the air and smashed it against Lucy's pachyderm posterior.]]></description>
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		<title>Flamingo Flap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proud pink flamingo which adorned a steel fire escape above Baltimore&#8217;s Cafe Hon has triumphed in its bureaucratic battle with city officials.
Back in early October &#8212; after the decorative bird had spent about seven years minding its own business &#8212; city inspectors made a big stink over the giant pink waterfowl. A governmental brouhaha [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip O&#8217; The Hat &#8216;N&#8217; Boots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[overs of down home colossal kitsch are kicking up their heels upon receiving news that the restoration of Seattle's iconic Hat 'n' Boots is nearing completion. The well-loved, once derelict Western Wear trio is all spruced up and ready to serve as the centerpiece of Oxbow Park in suburban Georgetown.]]></description>
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		<title>Reach Party (or: Johnson &amp; Johnson &amp; More Johnson)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attraction News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A second casting of J. Seward Johnson&#8217;s undeniably eye-catching 4,100-pound struggling sculpture, &#8220;The Awakening,&#8221; has been permanently installed in a grassy expanse in Chesterfield, Missouri. The grasping giant was added to Chesterfield Arts&#8216; public art collection and will be available for perpetual public gaping and climbing, forever frozen in an angry state, quite annoyed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking Tall: Latest In Lofty Thrills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you enjoy peering over railings? Do you like to feel gusts of unobstructed wind shoving you toward doom&#8217;s abyss?
Then you&#8217;ll love the new World&#8217;s Highest and Longest Pedestrian Bridge in Highland, New York.
Foreign countries may have the tallest observation decks, but America has moved beyond cheap thrills &#8212; or at least it expects to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ, Born Again in Gatlinburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Early 2008 was bad for Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Long-time attraction Christus Gardens closed. The property was sold to a condo developer. Everything in the attraction &#8212; the murals, the wax dummies, the famous marble face of Jesus with-the-eyes-that-followed-you, even the name &#8220;Christus Gardens&#8221; &#8212; had been sold to an outside Christian group. Rumors had them moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chupacabra On This!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creationist realtor John Adolfi has been trying to open his Lost World Museum in Phoenix, NY for years, seeking to undermine evolutionary science through the exuberant fun of an old-fashioned sideshow chock full of entertaining oddities. Now it looks like a mysterious blood-sucking monster has come to the rescue (A dead, stuffed one, admittedly).
The Chupacabra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gettysburg Electric Map: No Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Battle of Gettysburg saved American civilization from certain destruction. Now free Americans want to see the battle as they had done so for decades: at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, on a big Electric Map.
Unfortunately, it&#8217;s gone &#8212; split asunder. Or, at least in storage.
The map was a marvel of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twin Arrows Restored, Route 66 Fans Rejoice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coming Soon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve watched with resignation the gradual decay of the Twin Arrows east of Flagstaff, Arizona. The two big shafts &#8212; telephone poles, actually &#8212; were left to rot when the trading post that owned them closed in 1998. It wouldn&#8217;t be long, we thought, before they collapsed in a puff of desert dust, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See-Saw Cypress Gardens: Down Again</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/see-saw-cypress-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attraction News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cypress Gardens, Florida&#8217;s first theme park, has once again found itself out in the weeds.
An iconic home of water ski shows and Southern Belles in uncomfortably warm dresses, the park operated steadily for almost 70 years.  Then it closed in 2003, reopened with roller coasters in 2004, was ravaged by three hurricanes and closed [...]]]></description>
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