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Interesting Ideas started as a Xeroxed newsletter in 1989. The idea was to practice desktop publishing with Ventura Publisher, but it also was a venue for subjects too harebrained to comfortably have a place in the mainstream press, where I work.

A collection of over 700 photos of large Canadian roadside attractions.

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SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American roadside architecture.

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Click on the menu to the left to go to each individual state page. People often ask me, who are you . So I tell them. I'm Roger Johnson, the worlds first self proclaimed welcome sign photography expert. I was born in Minnesota in June, 1970. I wasn't alone however, 7 minutes after my arival the doctor exclaimed Oops, here comes another one . I was joined by an identical twin brother. He was ...

Minnesota's Roadside Architecture Minnesota's Larger Than Life and Other Strange Wonders This is a project that began in the late 1960's. An attempt has been made to photograph and record all of the various roadside attractions in Minnesota. No specific addresses are given, as part of the adventure is to find them. Over time a number have been removed for one reason or another. These are kept on ...

The World's Largest Ball of Twine Cawker City, Kansas Just how big is the ball of twine Look at these figures: 17, 320 pounds 40 foot circumference Over 6, 938, 709 feet of sisal twine Frank Stoeber started this ball of twine on his farm in 1953. By 1957 it weighed 5, 000 pounds, stood 8 feet high, and had 1, 175, 180 feet of twine on it. Stoeber gave the ball to Cawker City in 1961 before his death ...

To walk the streets of Garnet Ghost Town is to step back in time, free from intrusions of modern society.

Road report and review of classic I-95 tourist trap and vacation theme world.

Welcome to U.S.A.Centric. A place on the World Wide Web to find locations in the United States that are strange, interesting, and sometimes a complete waste of time. Below you can choose by states a number of places that have been visited by our crew. Anyone submitting a gif and description that fits into U.S.A.Centric will be posted in this site, as long as it passes the USA Centric test. Your ...

Photos of some bizzare roadside architecture and attractions from across the country.

The slow sad sound of trumpet taps recalls with an abiding heaviness that awful conflagration. That war between the states that Civil War that abomination of madness and valor which gives us pause every Memorial Day. And since Memorial Day weekend kicks-off the season of high-spirited vaykay, what better way to turbo-start summertime than with a celebration of America's war dead For our part, ...