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Do you like your historical travel served with a side dish of outsider art and unusual monuments, like I do? Then when you’re in Orlando, your trifecta of Retro Roadmap fun should be capped off with a quick jaunt south to wonder at Kissimmee’s Monument of the States! Our fave Florida tour guide Rick Kilby [...]
When I’m on vacation I’ll admit – a bit of kitsch will lure me into an “educational” destination. So when I learned of the giant gaping jaws at Gatorland and the promise of a coveted Mold-a-Rama souvenir, it wasn’t too hard to get me to go there. Even if it meant risking Retro Roadhusband for [...]
I admit, we didn’t even have Dinosaur Land in White Post VA on our Retro Radar. But when we saw the giant-sized prehistoric beasts looming over the roadway as we motored down Route 522 we screeched into the parking lot to check it out. And as luck would have it – it’s totally up our [...]
Good news! I have just learned via a posting on the RoadsideFans website that Mr. Ed’s Elephant Museum, which suffered a horrible fire last July is now back open for visitors! Mr. Ed’s elephant collection began with an elephant given to him as a good luck gift on his wedding day in 1967 and turned [...]
Thanks to Rick Kilby of Visual Ephemera, who was as amazed as I was to realize we did not have even one Retro Roadmap entry for Georgia. He graciously shared this bit of GA and his history on his blog and has allowed me to repost it- thanks Rick! When I noticed that fellow blogger [...]
What’s a roadtrip if you can’t pose in front of an oversized something? A trip to the outer reaches of Long Island would not be complete for a roadside giant loving fan without a visit to the famous Big Duck in Flanders NY. Why it’s practically historical in its architectural significance. And kinda cute too! [...]
To continue my rambling about the unexpected roadside treasures I discovered in New Jersey, I bring you this photo, of a house I found just around the corner from the At The Hop diner. As you can see it is very well insulated (wokka wokka wokka!) This snapshot taken from the side of W Jimmie [...]
Good News! Mr. Ed’s Elephant Museum has reopened! (Feb 2011) Original Post: From Brian Butko at the Lincoln Highway News, I’m just alerted to the sad report that Mr .E’ds Elephant Museum in central PA has been destroyed by fire, but he vows to rebuild! Read the details of the Mr. Ed’s Fire here [...]
Hey kids, wanna go walk across a bridge, look at some holes in a rock and buy something at the drug store? You can do all that in Shelburne Falls, MA but trust me, it’s a lot cooler than it sounds! I’ve had the Bridge of Flowers on my list of places to check out [...]
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