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reply 108/16/2015
The Winchester Mystery House.

The Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

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reply 208/16/2015
Route 66 signs and labels.

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reply 308/16/2015
I really love drive-in movie theaters.

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reply 408/16/2015
I love Gillette's Castle in CT. It's not kitsch, per se, but it's quirky and it can't really be called a castle since no nobility ever lived the, just the actor who played Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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reply 508/16/2015
Diners and diner food. No pretentions of being gourmet; just hot, filling, and comforting food.

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reply 608/16/2015
[R6] I'm a big diner fan, myself. Not ironic diners (though those can be fun), real ones. I like when they have mini juke boxes at the tables.

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reply 708/16/2015
Flea markets.

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reply 808/16/2015
Boardwalk piers - this from Wildwood, NJ

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reply 908/16/2015
Graceland.

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reply 1008/16/2015
State fairs and tractor pulls

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reply 1108/16/2015
Blatant "cultural appropriation". Paper Chinese lanterns and garish American Chinese restaurants, Tex-Mex, German Chalet aesthetic, Mediterranean style homes in the middle of New England, I love it all.

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reply 1208/16/2015
Paul Bunyan statues

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reply 1308/16/2015
County fairs

Army-Yale games

Harvard-Yale games

mini golf

roadside farm stands

tacky beach towns (too numerous to mention)

North Beach Miami architecture

Lake George motels

Jones Beach

apple stands with apple cider presses

local haunted houses if the price is reasonable (dirt cheap)

church sponsored flea markets

un-renovated museum cafeterias

any surviving candy/news stand built into an office or hotel lobby

shoe shine parlours

old beauty parlours

old barber shops

vintage long running diners and food trucks

staten island ferry (but not for a commute)

politically incorrect plantation house museums

spotless restaurants and bakeries in fading "little italy" neighbourhoods in big towns and small cities

Carnegie built public libraries

vanderbilt mansions

gatlinburg

travelling gospel and black theatre productions

halloween parades

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reply 1408/16/2015
Gingham table cloths. Harvard-Yale football game and crew competitions.

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reply 1508/16/2015
Old Cypress Gardens and Florida vacation destination places.


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reply 1608/16/2015

Old towns and saloons in dry, Western places.


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reply 1708/16/2015
Parades and marching band music

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reply 1808/16/2015
What [R14] said

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reply 1908/16/2015
gazebos. bandstands, amphitheatres and boathouses in town parks, and gazebos on town greens.

romanesque armories

state history museums in the capitol, especially if un-renovated with dusty politically incorrect dioramas)

rather pointless, also-ran majestic monuments (Gateway Arch, San Jacinto, etc)

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reply 2008/16/2015
The Cabazon Dinosaurs

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reply 2108/16/2015
gentlemen's haberdasheries for black men.

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reply 2208/16/2015
dollar stores in fading strip malls

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reply 2308/16/2015
small town dirty book shops

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reply 2408/16/2015
clam bars

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reply 2508/16/2015
illuminated caverns

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reply 2608/16/2015
naive art/architecture/monuments Watts Tower

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reply 2708/16/2015
don't know if the still have them, but Indian Trading Posts

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reply 2808/16/2015
Angelyne

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reply 2908/16/2015
Palms Springs architecture

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reply 3008/16/2015
That gift store next to the redwood with a tunnel through it.

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reply 3108/16/2015
All the retro and themed motels in Wildwood Crest, NJ.


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