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Roadside News: Jan. 2, 2009

January 2, 2009

• Vegas Goodbye to 2008: Two Las Vegas attraction landmarks — an Arc de Triomphe and a volcano — were used as New Year’s Eve props by rival daredevils. The son of Evel bested the volcano.

• Last Wave for Santa Cruz Surfing Museum?: Dudes and dudettes are trying to save the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, Santa Cruz, California. Their efforts aren’t being helped, however, by a greedy grandson of an original Santa Cruz Surf Club member — and it’s just getting uglier.

• Rock Parks: Loser Concept?: The 2008 bankruptcy of Hard Rock Park in South Carolina does not bode well for a planned rock ‘n’ roll theme park in the Arizona desert.

• Be Prepared for Scout Giant: A 15-year-old Boy Scout is raising money to build a really big Boy Scout statue as his Eagle Scout project. It will certainly be a more majestic monument to scouting than the somewhat embarrassing Boy Scout Memorial in Washington, DC.

• Waiting in Vane: The grand return of the World’s Largest Weather Vane, Monatgue, Michigan, is being delayed by the weather.

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