Roadside America (or elsewhere)

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Before corporate messaging and its architectural uniformity, the built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Let's collect images of these gems from those times before malls and online shopping!


The Big Fish Supper Club, MN

 

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Dinosaur World, AR

 

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Flintstone's Bedrock City, AZ

 

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Peach water tower, SC

 

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Shell gas station, NC

 

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Kelbee's Ice Cream, ME

 

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Cowtown Rodeo, Pilesgrove, N.J.

 

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Mr. Bill's Restaurant, Winslow Township, N.J.

 

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Alien Spaceship Home . Royce City, Texas

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Rome

 

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https://www.theroute-66.com/state.html

 

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Blue Whale of Catoosa, OK

 

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Carl's Frozen Custard---Landmarked ice cream stand drawing lines of fans for soft-serve cones, malts & shakes since 1947. Fredericksburg, VA

 

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The Haines Shoe House---York, PA

 

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Islamorada, Florida: Big Betsy, Giant Lobster

 

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Abandoned Amusement Park Spreepark PlanterWald, Berlin

 

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Zinn's diner---Denver, PA.

 

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Mount Jackson, Virginia apple basket water tower.....

 

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This guy creates steel sculptures. He places them in different areas around here, out on highway 79, east of Temecula, Ca. He has done some neat things with them.


On this same highway, which goes through some really wild terrain, he has gone really out of his way to display some of it, like a group of Mountain Sheep posed on a rock outcropping well off in the distance from the road.
Sadly, the horses are no longer jumping the highway, at this location. Glad I got the pic.

 

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It's still there, and open to the public.