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Roadside News: Feb. 16, 2009

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Nixon Pie | Roy Rogers Crisis | Dollywood Gat Day Cancelled | Hodag Community Art

Roadside News: Jan. 12, 2009

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Trading Up Stables | Doomed Ship Ice Sculpting | Not the Golgotha Subdivision | Death Can’t Stop This Train | Astroland Rocket Ride

Roadside News: Jan. 9, 2009

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Mutter Museum | Enchanted Forest | Behold the Unmelted | Cars of 1957 | Thunderbox!

Lane Change For Bowling Museum

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

We’ve never been that excited after visiting the International Bowling Museum. Maybe we should have been. It exhibits a car shaped like a bowling pin, and a dummy diorama of a King Henry VIII bowling, and a couple of recreated old-time alleys where visitors can bowl a few games. Hopefully it will still have those […]

It Really Is All About The Benjamins

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The problem with robot animatronic dummies has always been the -atronic part. Cams whir, connecting rods clank, and you’re always waiting for a belt to seize and flames to explode out of Abraham Lincoln’s head. Now a company in New Jersey has advanced the mad science of the pseudohuman host with what it calls the […]

One Less Nose To Rub: Daniel Boone’s Luck Runs Out

Monday, July 14th, 2008

The list of rub-a-dub body parts for tourists just got a little shorter. According to an article in the Warrenton Journal, a Missouri man named Matthew Burgoyne has been arrested for ripping the plaque off of the burial monument of Daniel Boone in Defiance, MO, cutting it into pieces, and selling it to local scrap […]

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