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Alameda, California Dublin, California
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 21:35 |
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Outrail posted:What nightmare creature is this? Sean spicers part time gig after after being press secretary
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 21:40 |
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We have drive thru liquor stores here in WI.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 21:47 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:We have drive thru liquor stores here in WI. this isn't the same one, but we had these all over the place when I lived in Tuscaloosa that was pretty sweet. Only issue is i was a yankee with a little sports car and even in the early 90s everyone else was driving a truck so i usually had to get out of the car to get the drink.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 21:58 |
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That's a loving wig
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 22:00 |
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halokiller posted:These restaurant chain talk reminds me that Luby's recently died as well. It's a cafeteria style place that only old people like and was made fun of in King of the Hill. This reminded me of Shoney's. I went to one when I was four or five years old and I had a teddy bear from there. I was wondering if they were still around. I found some peak Americana on their wikipedia article: quote:In April 1989, a class action lawsuit was filed in Pensacola, Florida charging Shoney's with widespread racial discrimination where African American applicants were denied employment, and African American employees were denied promotion, harassed or terminated without cause, based on race, and that white managers were harassed or terminated for objecting to the practices. The case, joined by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, was filed by nine named plaintiffs: five black employees and four white managers.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 23:01 |
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lol they owned captain d's I went there once and ordered a shrimp po-boy. It was the most bleak and depressing meal I've ever ordered
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 23:12 |
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Mike from Redlettermedia's long-lost sibling
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 23:17 |
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Here's an interesting video driving though what is pretty much a ghost town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhXDnQEgRqg
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 23:54 |
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Linux Pirate posted:Here's an interesting video driving though what is pretty much a ghost town. There are quite a few of these between Vegas and LA, which coincidentally is where I grew up. Look up Trona, CA on google maps for an example.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 02:07 |
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Woof Blitzer posted:Look up Trona, CA on google maps for an example. My dad's from there. It's not quite a ghost town yet, but that racist shithole will be soon enough.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 02:37 |
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These look like facade buildings from an old movie set.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 04:01 |
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This thread seems like a good place to recommend The Carpetbagger on YouTube. He basically continuously travels the country filming small towns, roadside attractions, and other oddities and points of interest. I'll add the disclaimer that he does tend to do selfie cam monologues too often and too long, and some people don't like his personality, so I won't fault you if you don't like him, but he does show a ton of Americana.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 05:42 |
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A Small Car posted:My dad's from there. It's not quite a ghost town yet, but that racist shithole will be soon enough. lol I’m from Ridgecrest. Great place! to move from
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 05:56 |
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Monkey Fracas posted:Mike from Redlettermedia's long-lost sibling I'm glad someone else was thinking that.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 08:04 |
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Yeah, I used to pass by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiles%2C_Texas (population 4). Reading about the history of that area was pretty interesting. the only building that's not a trailer.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 08:37 |
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Suspect A posted:Yeah, I used to pass by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiles%2C_Texas (population 4). Reading about the history of that area was pretty interesting. This kinda reminds me of the tiny town in Texas that my uncle used to live in. Not even really a town, an "unincorporated community" that peaked in the 40s at about 200 people and now has a quarter of that. My sister and I walked around there and found an old one room schoolhouse hidden inside a thicket of trees. It had no roof and there were trees growing through it but it was still full of old school desks. It looked really cool, unfortunately this was 20 years ago when you didn't carry a camera with you everywhere so I have no pictures. I looked it up on Google maps hoping someone else might have taken some pictures and uploaded them but there were only 2 for the area: I did manage to find it on Google Maps, it was a little hard to find a building that's completely engulfed by trees but it was helped by there only being like 5 roads. I managed to get street view shots from both sides of it.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 09:11 |
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Nightmare fuel
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 17:00 |
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Pug Rodeo posted:The bar looks familiar but I can’t place it. Is that Gold Dust Meridian? space room
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 17:01 |
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manero posted:Nightmare fuel Hotdog man has a huge weiner. Hangs right to the ground.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:47 |
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manero posted:Nightmare fuel Hahah that loving thing is wrapped in an american flag!
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:50 |
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AKZ posted:Hahah that loving thing is wrapped in an american flag!
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:53 |
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If I had any photoshop skills that hotdog would have a punisher skull, thin blue line, and trucknuts hanging off of it.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:58 |
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AKZ posted:If I had any photoshop skills that hotdog would have a punisher skull, thin blue line, and trucknuts hanging off of it. I bet the nuts are hanging behind the giant weiner. Speaking of USA, I'd like to start a campaign in which the bald eagle is renamed the "America Bird". What do you goons think?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 19:00 |
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Americana tax
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 19:03 |
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youre dick posted:this isn't the same one, but we had these all over the place when I lived in Tuscaloosa No no. You don't understand. Not that. Liquor. As in, you drive up and say give me two bottles of jack and a 6er of Miller lite.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 20:26 |
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When I lived in Philly I'd regularly get a case of lion's head at the drive thru beer distributor. Just drive right through the warehouse and they'd load it up for you. Then they started delivering...
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 21:36 |
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AKZ posted:Americana tax That's awesome
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 21:44 |
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BalloonFish posted:For me (as a non-American - a Brit, no less) those sorts of scenes are peak Americana. A small rural town somewhere flat and full of corn, cold in winter, hot in summer, one main street lined with independent shops ('Drug Store', 'Bar', 'Merv's Diner', 'Byzewski's Hardware Store', 'Chevron Gas') and a John Deere dealership overlooked by a water tower, lined with blue mailboxes, red fire hydrants and giant cars with too much chrome and fake wood on the side parked to the curb/kerb, with a brick courthouse with a civil war cannon and an American flag on a pole at one end. There's something so neat, snug, prosperous and friendly about such scenes when you see them on sunny days preserved on Kodachrome - almost enough to make you forget the litany of bad poo poo that was around in the 50s and 60s... They still exist, and small town main streets have had a big renascence in the last decade. Near cities a lot of metropolitan areas have grown around them, so they’re surrounded by suburban sprawl, but they’re still there if you look for them. And out in the country there are still a lot of really cool small towns. Leesburg, VIrginia Emittsburg, Maryland
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 22:57 |
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Big Beef City posted:No no. In Australia, Drive In Bottle Shops are common. Not only in small towns, but also in the suburbs and in the city. They aren't a big deal.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 23:52 |
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Big Beef City posted:No no. Some of these on Maryland’s eastern shore. Pretty sure if you pulled up and asked for the latest hype IPA you’d get called a slur.
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 00:29 |
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The small (~30k people) town I grew up near in Oregon (which was, amusingly, considered "the city" for country folk like me lol) definitely had a main street, and it was great. My parents' favorite dive bar was there, and I used to go with them a lot to get lunch. God I miss those "more grease and salt than potato" fries and them burgs. Also had a really amazing craft store and stationery shop, which was enormous, at least to young me. They used to close the street for a few days every year during the summer for a local fair, where they'd bring in rickety carnival rides and people would set up booths to sell things, and the businesses along the street would participate. It was a lot of fun. Trick or treating along there was great too. I miss walking along that street in the summer time. Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Code Jockey posted:The small town I grew up near in Oregon (which was, amusingly, considered "the city" for country folk like me lol) definitely had a main street, and it was great. My parents' favorite dive bar was there, and I used to go with them a lot to get lunch. God I miss those "more grease and salt than potato" fries and them burgs. Also had a really amazing craft store and stationery shop, which was enormous, at least to young me. They used to close it for a few days every year during the summer for a local fair, where they'd bring in rickety carnival rides and people would set up booths to sell things, and the businesses along the street would participate. It was a lot of fun. Trick or treating along there was great too. Did your small town in Oregon use to have a porcupine race during the fair like my small town in Oregon had?
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:04 |
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So I was idly using Google Maps to explore some random US town, and there's a box outside this building that says; "DEPOSIT USED & WORN FLAGS ONLY" What the hell does this mean? Do people carry flags around with them all the time that need to be disposed of? How normal is this?
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:15 |
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its probably for retiring them
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:16 |
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yeah i go through a 10-pack weekly so it's nice to know they're not all headed to the landfill
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:16 |
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theres a sort of hagiographic dealio youre supposed to do w flags instead of trashin them put them in the deposit boxes and the america man will say the holy words as he buries the flags
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:17 |
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The code on how to dispose of the US flag is very specific and it shouldn’t go in the trash with other refuse, so that’s probably old but not unique.
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:17 |
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Just throw the flag in the trash, who gives a gently caress.
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:18 |
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If it's damaged it's supposed to be burned. I poo poo you not. Though tbh, it makes sense to me in a way. Quick death Vs rotting around in rubbish.
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 01:26 |