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Matlack Radio posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_playground_equipment they turned a decommissioned nike missile base in my hometown into a park with a clever name 
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Zugzwang posted:Wifezwang and I once ate at a "Chinese Restaurant" in some tiny-rear end eastern Utah town that was staffed entirely by white folks and also served spaghetti, lasagna, hamburgers, and macaroni and cheese. I've seen a lot of this in the most remote/low population towns near the coasts, chinese restaurants with at least a breakfast diner menu. It makes sense to me, just Chinese probably wouldn't stay open as literally the only local restaurant. Related but not America, when I was looking up bad pizzas I was surprised to find out that in Russia almost every single pizza restaurant is also a sushi restaurant. It was harder to find a pizza place without a sushi menu.
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Reading this thread prompts me to say if anyone hasn't read American Gods you should read it now.
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or just go to the House on the Rock on acid
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china bot posted:or just go to the House on the Rock on acid https://youtu.be/93vzwvRKbpg
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Linux Pirate posted:I feel like they are unintentionally inviting competition by calling it " Worlds ONLY corn palace". Oakland has two stadiums sitting idle. At least one of those should be replaced with a corn palace so gaudy and amazing that the one in South Dakota spontaneously combusts out of shame.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Rocket slide, Kehoe Park, St. Charles, Illinois. I grew up with one of these in Benalla, Victoria, Australia. I never really gave much thought to the fact that it might have been a widely used design, that's cool
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Zugzwang posted:Wifezwang and I once ate at a "Chinese Restaurant" in some tiny-rear end eastern Utah town that was staffed entirely by white folks and also served spaghetti, lasagna, hamburgers, and macaroni and cheese. I live in sf, and my local indian food place (staffed by indians) also has pizza, Indian pizza, burgers, and itialian food. Was it good?
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TheAardvark posted:I've seen a lot of this in the most remote/low population towns near the coasts, chinese restaurants with at least a breakfast diner menu. It makes sense to me, just Chinese probably wouldn't stay open as literally the only local restaurant. Spazzle posted:I live in sf, and my local indian food place (staffed by indians) also has pizza, Indian pizza, burgers, and itialian food. Was it good?
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TheAardvark posted:This is actually one of my favorite Americana things! The part in I'm Thinking of Ending Things where fat damon stops at one is pretty unsettling. That and the part where he sings the jingle.
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Spazzle posted:I live in sf, and my local indian food place (staffed by indians) also has pizza, Indian pizza, burgers, and itialian food. Was it good? I ate Indian pizza at some place in the Mission District a few years ago. It wasn't bad, but also not great!
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TheAardvark posted:Related but not America, when I was looking up bad pizzas I was surprised to find out that in Russia almost every single pizza restaurant is also a sushi restaurant. It was harder to find a pizza place without a sushi menu. I worked in Siberia about twelve years ago and was surprised to find tons of pizza and/or sushi restaurants - even more surprised to find that the sushi was excellent. The pizza was pretty good, but some of the ingredient substitutions were bizarre. Like baloney instead of ham, salami instead of pepperoni, sliced-up hot dogs instead of sausage. Going back and looking at Google Maps today though shows all the combo restaurants I remember are now specializing. https://pizzamia.ru/ Depressingly, Tyumen now sports a loving Papa John's a block from the hotel I used to stay in. Bringing this post back to topic. https://goo.gl/maps/EuHb7yVeWr6QAshF7
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siberia, esp the bits w people in it, is right next to japan, lotsa japanese and peeps go over
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I don't think I've ever seen a three way bridge before.
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As a non-american who grew up eating all kinds of Asian foods, Americanized chinese food is weird af. I ate it when I was a kid of course, but now it feels like a relic of a different cultural era, a time when ethnic foods had to hide their ethnicity to appeal to whites.
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china bot posted:or just go to the House on the Rock on acid there is so much objects at that place
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Gravity Houses, such as the Mystery Spot I had the postcard set as a kid with the 1960's grandpa in a red shirt. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=my...d5d642c6b5e.jpg
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its all nice on rice posted:Good skin on that gravy yessir. The technical term is Bleemus. Unless it's the black crust on the threads of a catsup bottle, then it's Flen. TheAardvark posted:Here I've included one in this post. It was literally the first image of a person at this place. I've seen several time capsules like this. I sometimes wonder about the point of having a time capsule that will be opened when some of the people who set it up are probably still alive. If you want to know what it was like back then, just ask the dude over there, he was alive then. It's like having a storage shed you don't go into for a long time. Genesplicer fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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I grew up with giganta but mine looked... scarier. 
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china bot posted:they turned a decommissioned nike missile base in my hometown into a park with a clever name whast so clever about it
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Adding on to the inexplicable comic book character in small town USA. The town of Idaho Springs about 20 mins from where I grew up has a statue of forgotten 40's comic hero Steve Canyon for some odd reason. 
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BrigadierSensible posted:Here's a question regarding small town USA. a few years ago i drove up the east coast of the us and passed through many, many tiny towns. the little shopping center in every town had the same three things: some kind of grocery store (a dollar store in the case of the really tiny towns), a check cashing/payday loan place and a p.f. chang's (lovely chinese chain restaurant)
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 Oregon’s own Prehistoric Gardens! 23 concrete dinosaurs nestled in a temperate rainforest.
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My wife says that every American Chinese food Chinese place is owned by people from Fujian.
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The_Franz posted:a few years ago i drove up the east coast of the us and passed through many, many tiny towns. the little shopping center in every town had the same three things: some kind of grocery store (a dollar store in the case of the really tiny towns), a check cashing/payday loan place and a p.f. chang's (lovely chinese chain restaurant) pf changs is too fancy for most american small towns, try some kind of chinese buffet that also serves chicken tenders and ice cream e: the place in my hometown was called Asiana china bot fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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TheAardvark posted:I did post I was interested in funny poo poo from other countries with a similar feel in that case oh man taiwan is absolutely full of weird "tourist attractions" that exist mainly as destinations for kindergarten field trips and stop-offs for group tour coaches. most of them were built during the 80s-90s boom years so havent had quite as long to decay as the small town america ones, but still  i always see this crayon factory from the train line running down the east coast, you can take your kids here and make your own crayons  usually they'll have a load of weird fibreglass statues outside which mainly exist just for people to take photos in front of. this one is from some kind of sausage factory, hence the pig. why the pig had to be a steampunk airplane pig is another question entirely. MEAT.  inside usually theres just a lot of information panels going into far more detail than anyone wants to read about the sausage or crayon making process or whatever, but the main attraction is diorama things which are, again, just meant for you to pose in front of, as this old lady and fish are demonstrating. this pic is very typical 'taiwan tourist attraction' to me  the shoe building is kinda famous, it is actually a church. i do not know why they decided the best place to worship jesus would be inside a single, giant stiletto. the fibreglass headphone sculpture is probably, like, a wedding photo location, in case your bride really loves shoes and you're an audiophile? or something?  as in america, attractions related to whatever the local agricultural industry is are pretty common. this one is located in a big salt-producing area, so they just built a big hill out of salt and whacked a fibreglass sculpture of an owl (?) on top. there you go, instant tourist attraction
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Zugzwang posted:Wifezwang and I once ate at a "Chinese Restaurant" in some tiny-rear end eastern Utah town that was staffed entirely by white folks and also served spaghetti, lasagna, hamburgers, and macaroni and cheese. Scans. Anyone dumb enough to ask what the gently caress is up is probably in for a racist rant.
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I think it makes 0 sense of Chinese immigrants to move to America these days.
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china bot posted:happenstance, it was hit by lightning loving lol god confirmed giant oval office
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America seems like a very bad place
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It's a great place to visit though!
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greazeball posted:It's a great place to visit though! Come for the Covid, stay for the quarantine!
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yugioh mishima posted:in that case oh man taiwan is absolutely full of weird "tourist attractions" that exist mainly as destinations for kindergarten field trips and stop-offs for group tour coaches. most of them were built during the 80s-90s boom years so havent had quite as long to decay as the small town america ones, but still Cool what american state is this Americana in
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Milo and POTUS posted:whast so clever about it There's a bunch of Nike Parks across the country, I assume the sites were really easy to clean up while leaving the buildings for park maintenance storage and workshops, or even small museums at some of them.
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Big Beef City posted:Cool what american state is this Americana in Americana is a diseased part of the ex-urban brain, not a place.
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Big Beef City posted:Cool what american state is this Americana in Beef they literally quoted a post of mine saying i was interested in Other Country equivalents. R>C>P!!!!!!! Though at this point it might be a good idea for a separate thread ("small town life in Other Country thread" or something. I'd love to go trawling through small town Sweden or whatever
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