Vintage roadside

[Ghostsoldier]

Jerry's, times two.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

"Peanuts...get yer peanuts!"

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

"Peanuts...get yer peanuts!"

Rob

There is a 100% chance that the Fading Fasts driving by would stop there.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Cold Tonic" -- somewhere in Eastern Massachussets.

 

[3fingers]

"Cold Tonic" -- somewhere in Eastern Massachussets.

Thanks. I was wondering what area that one came from. I usually draw strange expressions when I say soda here. This is a pop area. I personally agree with Lewis Grizzard, if anything it should be called whoosh since that's the sound it makes when you open the bottle.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Best on the Hi-Way.

Rob

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Peanuts...get yer peanuts!"

Rob

Having researched a bit. I'm pretty sure this is the Planters stand that used to be in Peabody, one of the suburban towns outside Boston. And if it is, that giant Mr. Peanut came to a sad end -- after the peanut stand closed, the site was turned into a sleazy roadside bar/strip club, with Mr. Peanut forced to demean himself as its pitchman.

An American tragedy. Dreiser couldn't have written it worse.

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ That is just not right.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

This architectural design always resembled a vintage stereo record player, guitar amp or console to me... it's like a huge upholstered speaker with a brand name logo stuck on the grille, or something.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Mr. Peanut sued and won.
Now he's as good as ever!

Well.... at least on the FL.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Buffalo on the roof....sounds like a tribal elder's name.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

More Native American kitsch shops... looks like in Cherokee, NC.

Rob

 

[Frunobulax]

More Native American kitsch shops... looks like in Cherokee, NC.

Rob

Reminds me of vacations when I was a kid.

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Fading Fast]

More Native American kitsch shops... looks like in Cherokee, NC.

Rob

And after looking through all the craft stores, there's a well-located Dairy Queen.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Which is still there, albeit in a different building.

Rob

 

[3fingers]

And after looking through all the craft stores, there's a well-located Dairy Queen.

I haven't been for several years, but there was a McDonald's in New Salem state park outside Springfield, Illinois. New Salem was a little town where Abraham Lincoln got started in Illinois. It was abandoned until the state took it over and fixed it up. It didn't look like a McDonald's on the outside, but did on the inside. No word on who got bribed to allow that to happen.

 

[Zombie_61]

I haven't been for several years, but there was a McDonald's in New Salem state park outside Springfield, Illinois. New Salem was a little town where Abraham Lincoln got started in Illinois. It was abandoned until the state took it over and fixed it up. It didn't look like a McDonald's on the outside, but did on the inside. No word on who got bribed to allow that to happen.

Actually, there are a number of McDonald's restaurants around the world that don't look particularly like McDonald's restaurants--several of them right here in the U.S.--except for a sign somewhere on the buildings that either say "McDonald's" or are their trademark "golden arches" logo. Except for Sedona, Arizona, where the "golden" arches are turquoise.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Free orange juice.

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Free orange juice.

Rob

The free OJ will also be a nice welcome for Kirk, Spock and McCoy when they beam down as that looks like very '60s Star Trek architecture. I believe they visited several "Class M" planets that looked like that.

 

[BobHufford]

The free OJ will also be a nice welcome for Kirk, Spock and McCoy when they beam down as that looks like very '60s Star Trek architecture. I believe they visited several "Class M" planets that looked like that.

My wife's Grandfather was the general contractor on the library at Evangel University here in town. He often griped about the complexity of building those hyperbolic-paraboloids (or whatever they're called).