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Roadside News: April 8, 2009

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Moogseum – Prog Rock Mecca? – NC | It’s a Bloody Replica – DC | Most Magnificent Elvis – TN | Stonehenge-By-The-Sea – MA

Roadside News: March 4, 2009

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Disappearing Waterski Lake Refills – WI | End of Trail Closes – OR | Garbage Museum is Tax-Exempt – CT | Abduction of Minnie Pearl – TN | Squirrel Cage Jail – IA

Roadside News: Feb. 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Smiley Stay of Execution – ND | Dueling Weather Groundhogs – PA | Proof is in the Runestones | Moving Minnie Pearl – TN

Roadside Attractions: Cheap Targets For Senate Bullies

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Money is tight at the moment, and U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R) has used the current recession to attack even the thought of federal money going to Las Vegas’s proposed Mob Museum (One Vegas bureaucrat replied indignantly that, “We think our projects are just as important as those of the other local jurisdictions in the [...]

Duck Luxury at The Peabody

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The Peabody Ducks — five mallards that parade through the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee — already had it pretty sweet. Their job is to swim in the hotel’s lobby fountain and provide camcorder and camera fodder for goggle-eyed visitors. And they never end up on the Peabody’s dinner menu. But the mallard mascots’ lives [...]

Titanic II To Dock in Pigeon Forge

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Apparently based on the success of the monstrous Titanic attraction in Branson, MO, a second doomed ocean liner-shaped facility will be erected in tourist mecca Pigeon Forge, TN by Spring 2010. Artist’s concept of the new Titanic attraction. We like this artist’s concept of the new place. Branson broke the ice, in a way, on [...]

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