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reply 3208/16/2015

The Hollywood Sign and The Hollywood Bowl.


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reply 3308/16/2015
Bedrock City, Arizona

Route 66 in general

All Googie & Space Age architecture

The Neon Museum & whatever remains of vintage Las Vegas (less & less all of the time, sadly)

Tiki bars

Black Hills, South Dakota (Deadwood/Mt. Rushmore/Wall Drug/etc.)

Pink flamingoes

The Madonna Inn

Tinkertown, New Mexico

If you love this kind of stuff & aren't following Charles Phoenix, you're missing out. He's the ultimate kitsch queen & I would love to steal his job.

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reply 3408/16/2015
thanks [R34]

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reply 3508/16/2015
[R34] Thanks for that link! I love the whole Roswell, NM and Area 51, Nevada culture, too. I also love The State and National Parks and old travel posters for them:

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reply 3608/16/2015
Lakeside destinations. This is Lake Arrowhead, CA. I also love old cafes that haven't been updated in forever.

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reply 3708/16/2015
Pea Soup Andersen's, a must-stop on the drive from San Francisco to LA


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—Motoring along the coast

reply 3808/16/2015
I love the crazy old Hollywood houses, like the Spadena House:


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reply 3908/16/2015
The Spelling "Manor"

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reply 4008/16/2015
Neon blue or purple lights, at night.

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reply 4108/16/2015
Roy Rogers and Disneyland style novelty ranches.

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reply 4208/16/2015
Old Town Greens in New England and gazebos in bunting:

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reply 4308/16/2015
The 4H section of county fairs... All those handmade and home grown things, the dioramas made by little kids, the farm animals...all that earnest effort.

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reply 4408/16/2015
American cars of the 1940s to early 1970s.

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reply 4508/16/2015
Golf courses. Not mini-golf and not the "sport" or game of golf. But the golf course as a landscape park. Regular American gardens tend to be a tad inferior to those of Europe and Asia, except in a few cases, and American parks though much larger and more numerous are usually ill-kept, but there is no question that American golf courses (for profit landscape beauty) are far superior to anything found overseas, as well as more numerous, with half the golf courses in the world in the USA. Furthermore, their surface uniformity convert them into a sort of American zen experience, like the spiritual apotheosis of the suburban lawn. Sadly, this is as endangered as the soda fountain. With the decline of the middle class, the numbers playing golf regularly have declined one-third since 2000 and the number playing golf ever declined by a fifth.

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reply 4608/16/2015
Dinosaurs at gas stations.

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reply 4708/17/2015
Town that still have the old street lamps

Downtown department stores and downtown shopping districts

College football games and goofy team mascots

Vintage diners

Motor court hotels

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reply 4808/17/2015

Amazon Women of Auburn, California


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reply 4908/17/2015
County fairs! A county fair in a rural area can be a lovely thing, with interesting crafts from local artists on display, pleasant gardens and agricultural stuff, food that's very bad for you, shopping for stuff that isn't usually available, and of course getting sick on the rides. And if you're particularly lucky... DEMOLITION DERBY!!!

And yes, [R28], there are still Indian trading posts. A female friend drove through Arizona and stopped at several. Said some are rural places where she could get good deals on turquoise jewelry, and some were amazing kitschy tourist traps full of seniors arriving by the busload.

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reply 5008/17/2015
[R49], I have a friend who lives near Auburn, has for nearly ten years.

He refuses to believe there are statues of giant naked Indians on a side street.

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reply 5108/17/2015
Santa Cruz Boardwalk, the only beach amusement park left on the west coast.

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reply 5208/17/2015
Cooperstown, NY.

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reply 5308/17/2015
Cooperstown is gorgeous.

Woodminster, the Hollywood Bowl, Chastain, Ravinia, Blossom, Tanglewood, the open air cultural venue.

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reply 5408/17/2015
[R46] Have you seen this? I think you would like it:

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reply 5508/17/2015
Coco's Bakery restaurant in Palm Springs. I love their menu which has photos of all the food.

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reply 5608/17/2015
South of the Border! Food wasn't bad, either. Not gourmet, but not bad.

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reply 5708/17/2015
Presque Isle State Park

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reply 5808/17/2015
St. Augustine, FL