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Someone finally made it past Joe's Truck "Stop" and directly into the adjacent house, in January 2013.
[D. Langdon Jones, 01/19/2013]Joe's Truck Stop:- Address:
- 5th St. NE, Fort Payne, AL
- Directions:
- I-59 exit 218. Drive east on Hwy 35/Glenn Blvd, then bear left just past the McDonald's onto US 11/Gault Ave. Drive north for one mile, then turn right onto 5th St. Drive east for four blocks. You'll see Joe's wall on the right.
Joe's Truck "Stop" is all you said about it and more. The tip said that kids call it Joe's Truck Stop, but by now even emergency personnel are dispatched to "Joe's Truck Stop" whenever there is another crash there. It is a monument to the failure of the state of Alabama to remedy a situation that has gone on for decades. But it is also amusing. Joe was a very pragmatic man and he took care of things his own way.
[Peggy Tiner, 01/13/2010]March 2011 - Photo added.
- Fort Payne, Alabama - Joe's Truck "Stop"
In 1935 Joe Faulkner built a house on Fifth Street, directly in front of a mountain road. Things were fine until around 1950 when Alabama designated the road State Highway 35, and truckers started using it. The truckers would burn out their brakes on the steep, two-mile mountain pass, and the first year thirteen trucks went through Joe's yard. He had a row of trees which they took out, one by one. Trucks, several of whose drivers died, spilled such diverse loads as chickens, watermelons, cows, logs, lumber, and steel onto Joe's yard, porch, and roof. He once had three circus trucks in his yard. In 1959, after various officials failed to make good their promises to remedy the situation, Joe built a four-foot-thick concrete wall reinforced with wire, grader blades, steel pipe, and the chassis from two Dodge trucks. The wall is only about two feet high, so loads still spill into his yard, but trucks have never been able to do anything worse to the wall than knock chunks out of it. In 1989 I went to Fort Payne to see the wall, which local kids have named Joe's Truck Stop.
[Teresa Fisher, 03/09/1999]We like the rusted metal pipes that rise out of the top of Joe's wall. It was not built to be pretty.
This cross is actually made from mild steel plate and just painted to look like stainless steel! It's 125 feet from the edge of the Alabama Dept. of Transportation right-of-way, and the spot was specifically chosen by the Alabama DOT to ensure that if the cross fell it would not fall on DOT property. It was fabricated in Mississippi by the Headrick company and transported in three pieces to the site (I was the project manager for fabricating and erecting this cross).
The flower garden at the entrance to the church was destroyed when the truck transporting the longest section could not turn the corner sharp enough.
[John Rebry, 09/19/2014]125-Foot-Tall Cross:- Address:
- 316 Mountain Crest Parkway, Gardendale, AL
- Directions:
- From Birmingham, 1-65 North to Fieldstown Road exit. Turn right at the end off the exit ramp and follow Fieldstown Road to Mt. Olive Road which is the second red light. Turn left. The main entrance is on the left. Turn onto Mountain Crest Parkway,
America's space armada and impressive contrail of rocket and NASA history artifacts, including a Saturn V rocket visible from the parking lot.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...
- Address:
- One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL
- Directions:
- I-65 exit 340, then 15 miles east to I-565 exit 15. On the south side of the freeway; you'll see the big rocket out front.
- Hours:
- Daily 9-5 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 256-837-3400
- Admission:
- Adults $25.
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
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It looks like the vehicle may have just grazed the edge of the Truck Stop before plowing into the house. The property clearly has feng shui issues.