More Twang For Your Buck

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

If you want to draw tourists to a potential vacation area that currently lacks any popular established attractions, you can always start by renaming a generic and innocuous stretch of highway. That way you have a theme to work with and updated signage that reminds speeding motorists that something once happened here.
On March 20th, Arkansas [...]

Roadside News: March 30, 2009

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Big Leather Boot – MN | Woodstock Monument Guy Dies – NY | Museum of Clean – ID | Elvis Presley Haircut Celebration – AR

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 the gift [...]

Roadside News: Jan. 30, 2009

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Peanut Capital of the World | Little Rock’s Little Rock | Hog Killing Day | Secret Ball Facility

Mystic Caverns for Sale

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

John D. sent us a news story about an attempt to sell Mystic Caverns, Marble Falls, Arkansas, on eBay by its owner, Steve Rush. Rush has been running tours through the 2-cave combo attraction — Mystic Cave and Crystal Dome — since 1992. Attendance has trailed off, and Rush plans to move on to devote [...]