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- Arkansas City, Kansas - Scripture Hill
"Christ died for the ungodly" in eighteen-foot-high letters on a hillside north of Arkansas City.
[Ralph Decker, 01/12/2013]Scripture Hill:- Address:
- US Hwy 77 Bypass, Arkansas City, KS
- Directions:
- Visible to the west from northbound US Hwy 77 Bypass, midway between US Hwy 166 and US Hwy 77.
- Admission:
- Free
I went with 20 year olds and we felt like kids again. You order on the phone at your table and soon a train starts coming on the track system suspended from the ceiling. Eventually it gets above your table and drops on a lowering device. The food, we thought, was really good diner food at a reasonable price. It is really a fun experience.
[Joe Hirsch, 07/01/2015]Meals Delivered by Model Railroad:- Address:
- 250 N. 18th St., Kansas City, KS
- Directions:
- Fritz's Railroad Restaurant. I-70 exit 420B. Drive north on 18th St. for six blocks. On the left, one block north of Central Ave., on the corner of 18th St. and Grandview Blvd.
- Phone:
- 913-281-2777
- Kansas City, Kansas - Meals Delivered by Model Railroad
Anyone visiting KC, KS or close must go to Fritz's Union Station, 250 N 18th St, Kansas City, for Meals Delivered by Model Railroad.
You sit in little booths, order your food by telephone -- it is brought to you via a train. It goes all the way around the restaurant until it comes to your table and drops it on a tray stuck to the wall. The most interesting dining experience I've had.
It's been there forever and rumor has it, they are opening one in Crown Center next year!
[Tara Teel, 11/20/1999] - Kansas City, Kansas - Happy Halfwit Muffler Man
I believe this was the same statue that stood in front of a store in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wornell Road, for many years, and was purchased and moved to Kansas when that store closed. It looks rather like a statue that's in storage at Bell Plastics in California.
[Steve Atwell, 06/21/2022]The Halfwit at Bell Plastics came from Flint, Michigan, but maybe he had moved to Flint from Kansas City. Muffler Men are often well-traveled.
Muffler Man:- Hours:
- Gone
- Status:
- Gone
There have been some reports about a Happy Halfwit Muffler Man that used to stand at the corner of 43rd and State Line Rd in Kansas City, and went missing around 1996. Thanks to Scott Phillips and his blog, we now know what the Muffler Man looked like. He actually stood at 43rd and Cambridge in front of a small store called Poor Boy's Pantry, which had been around since the 1960s.
Today, the same building is occupied by Driven Nutrition and The Cabana Tanning Co., and all that's left of the Halfwit is the same pole he stood against in the 1980s. Scott took his picture in 1985, and the shirt and shoes seem to be a dead match for the Halfwit currently in Flint, Michigan. Either that's where he ran off to, or International Fiberglass sold the Hawaiian shirt as an option for its Halfwits, and made more than one of them. Thanks again to Scott for sharing this rare pic and for giving me permission to post it here.
[Joel Baker, 01/24/2013]The Halfwit in Flint has been there since 2002 at the latest, so it's possible that it's the same one that disappeared from Kansas City in the mid-1990s. Good detective work, Joel.
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The magnitude of the letters -- each is 18 feet high -- is considerably lessened because they are far away from the nearest road. They were made (in 1897) to be seen from passenger railroad tracks that run next to the hillside.