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- Lavaca, Arkansas - Giant Beer Can
There is a silo in a large field next to a barn that's painted like a Budweiser can. I don't really know if you can just walk right up to it because it's on private property. I live in Fort Smith -- the directions people give around here to Lavaca is "Go east on Rogers Avenue, through Barling, then turn left at the beer can." If we didn't have that beer can, I'm sure some people would forget how to get to Lavaca.
[sarah, 04/21/2005]Giant Beer Can - As Seen on TV:- Address:
- Hwy 22, Lavaca, AR
- Directions:
- Southwest of town, on the southeast corner of Hwys 22 and 96.
Farm silo painted to look like giant Budweiser Can. I haven't been able to contact the owner yet to get the story on his silo, but was told by a nearby Black Angus farmer/rancher that in addition to raising prize Angus, he's also the local (Fort Smith?) Anheiser-Busch distributor.
[David Carlson, 11/30/2002]- Bowie, Arizona - Teepee Bar/Cafe
Bowie's apex of fine dining is a teepee shaped building covered with gray checkerboard tarpaper, and I remember it being a bar back in my younger days-late sixties/early seventies. It sits on the main street, not far from the Wee Blew Inn (I'm not making this up), which seems to be populated by hard looking long haired men carrying beer cans and smoking cigarettes while leaning against their 1972 Buicks, where they are occasionally harassed by their blonde, mean girlfriends, who all appear to be wearing Lynyrd Skynyrd tee-shirts. In 1999 the teepee was still open, but the advertised price on the porkchop dinner was low enough to persuade us to eat dinner in Willcox instead.
[Ed Fields, 04/29/2003]Teepee-Shaped Building, Former Teepee Cafe:- Address:
- Business I-10, Bowie, AZ
- Directions:
- Take either I-10 exits 362 or 366. On the north side of Business I-10, on the west side of downtown, between Jefferson and Washington Aves.
The Domes were built to facilitate the manufacturing of computers back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but they were never completed -- evident from a couple of foundations that were started and left unfinished. One of the buildings is shaped like a flying saucer and the other three are as if spheres were joined together, looking like huge concrete caterpillars.
Talk from the locals about the Domes concerns ritualistic witchcraft and satanic worship. "Stay out of there and don't go into the tunnels," is the refrain, and indeed there are tunnels under the east end of this facility. But despite all the stories, it's unclear if anything more sinister has happened there than underage beer drinking and an occasional squatter spending the night. Nonetheless, staying out of the tunnels is probably advice wisely heeded.
[Margaret Ivins, 04/07/2020]Mysterious Domes:- Directions:
- Southwest of town. I-8 exit 172, then drive south one mile on S. Thornton Rd. On the left.
- Hours:
- Bulldozed in January 2023.
- Status:
- Gone
Clifton once had another underground attraction in addition to its cliffside jail. There used to be an underground bar called The Cave dug into the side of a mountain. Originally a storage tunnel for a bar on Chase Creek (Clifton's main street), the tunnel was expanded to include one large room with lots of interconnecting tunnels. The Cave opened in 1933 at the end of Prohibition and evidently was THE happening bar in the '30s and '40s. One of its appeals was that inside the mountain, the temperature stays a constant 65 degrees. In 1951 it was moved to its current location, mostly because a family member got tired of having the entrance to the bar in the back yard. These days the entrance to the old bar is there if you know where to look, and the sign on US 191 that once pointed towards The Cave now also points in the direction of the new Cave, a dark basement affair that serves mighty cold beer, but just doesn't seem to have the appeal that drinking inside a mountain must have had.
[Dean Jeffrey, 07/16/2002]The Cave:- Hours:
- Closed.
- Status:
- Gone
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