Eccentric Roadside

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Friday, October 8, 2010

Southern discomfort: Scenes from the Tennessee-Alabama Fireworks gift shop

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As an eccentric roadside traveler unfamiliar with the deep south, I had a preconceived notion of what a 7-day driving trip through the regi...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Cruising down Mammy Lane: Mammy's Cupboard of Natchez, Mississippi

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She sits with tray in hand along Highway 61. I'm standing where some Shell gas pumps once stood. Unfortunately, they were closed when ...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

The County Seat: The World's Biggest Office Chair of Anniston, Alabama

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It's always a thrill to come across the world's biggest something or another on a roadtrip and the northeastern Alabama town of Anni...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Blow out the candelabra and hang up the feathered cape: Las Vegas' Liberace Museum is closing this October

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"I wish my brother George was here." The strip mall owned by the Liberace Museum has fallen on some hard times. I don't think ...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Unfortunately displayed business of the week: Johnson's Giant Foods of Gadsen, Alabama

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Johnson's Giant Foods Store of Gadsen, Alabama is a perfectly fine supermarket carrying a wide array of quality groceries and home goods...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Weevil, weevil rock you: Enterprise, Alabama's Boll Weevil Monument

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The local radio station, WVVL, has its headquarters overlooking the monument. Everybody gets into the boll weevil act in Enterprise. Enterpr...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Howdy y'all: An Eccentric Roadside on the road dispatch

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Heading home tomorrow after a 6-day barnstorm of Dixie. Many Southern eccentric delights to report on, so y'all come back now, y'hea...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Eccentric Roadside hits the road

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One half of the Eccentric Roadside team is heading out today on a short roadtrip to the deep south: Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Splitsville: The International Banana Museum of Hesperia, California slips out of town

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Sing us a song, you're the Banana Man: Ken "Bananister" Bannister Bill Clinton was a fan I'm guessing she goes by the ni...
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