Code Jockey posted:

Isn't POW*MIA bullshit anyway, meant to cover up the insane amount of casualties in Vietnam by saying "uhh lots of them are POWs, we're not getting completely wrecked over there, yeah that's it"? I remember reading about that somewhere

Aardvark! posted:

The Bloop posted:

EG posted:

Here's a little more Americana from Alton.




And nothing more Americana than an empty mall:

Waterbed Wendy posted:

Dear Prudence posted:

This is from pages ago, but is this on Waterman in San Bernardino next to the big cemetary?

Aardvark! posted:

man this place has it all

Aardvark! posted:

4)lol at the rule that you aren't allowed to eat leftovers in the restaurant

wesleywillis posted:

What is that pizza cat beside her?

Ralph Crammed In posted:

Anyway Spokane isn't big enough to have a big leagues team but we do have a minor league team called the Indians. About 15 years or so ago they went "hey, should we rebrand to be something less racist?" and they ended up working with the Spokane Indians tribe to come up with branding that was inclusive to the tribe.

The name Spokane is written in Salish on the uniforms and instead of having a caricature of a human they have a regional trout as the mascot now.

This is the first time the native words/language have appear on the uniforms of a baseball team.

CPL593H posted:

I really want to know what that walkie talkie is for.

CPL593H posted:

I really want to know what that walkie talkie is for.

Aardvark! posted:

what's the deal with the lemon

Casu Marzu posted:

Based off of his hat, I'm guessing he's the super gungho volunteer firefighter that decks out his F350 with lights and bars and always has the radio at full volume so whenever there's any traffic, he's all OH SORRY, I'M A FIREFIGHTER GOTTA KEEP THIS AROUND AT ALL TIMES

Every competent person at the fire department absolutely hates his rear end cuz he's the first to the fire but tangles the hoses every loving time and just gets in the way and makes poo poo worse just being on scene

Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:

CPL593H posted:

I really want to know what that walkie talkie is for.

Juando290 posted:

I know that Oregon has come up a few times already, but there are a lot of backwoods towns spread out that are peak Americana. I grew up in an unincorporated area where the high school was ok sized, but it served a 25 square mile area of small towns. My parents went to a high school about 20 miles south where there were anywhere from 8 to 12 kids in each graduating class. The "main town" of Veneta is best known for the Oregon Country Fair that is really just a hippy fest in the forest that started back in 1969... The town is fairly conservative, but the fair brings a lot of money in every year, so they accept it...but not without making fun of all the "smelly hippies" while taking their money. Most of us saw our first real naked breast on a woman at that fair, I swear.


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The house my mom grew up in during the 50's/60's It was actually right next to a bar that my Grandpa owned the property it was on...It was closed by the time I was born, but I remember there was a naked lady vase I could see through the window.



and the "Hobbit House" up the hill from there



Who here remembers when they decided to blow up a whale to get rid of it's carcass? America loves blowing poo poo up!



A few more random Oregon pictures.














(I have been to this bar when I am camping more times than I would like to admit...)




This is a restaurant in the literal middle of nowhere called Cowboy Dinner Tree. You have to drive 5 miles down a road away from the town of silver lake (population has fluctuated between 29 and 104 people over the last decade) and this restaurant is the only thing on that road..after that it turns to gravel roads for many many miles.

Code Jockey posted:

Isn't POW*MIA bullshit anyway, meant to cover up the insane amount of casualties in Vietnam by saying "uhh lots of them are POWs, we're not getting completely wrecked over there, yeah that's it"? I remember reading about that somewhere

LifeSunDeath posted:

My sister lives in a small Oregon town and I started google mapping around it and noticed all these little communities in the middle of nowhere between mountains and the coast and thought like how the gently caress do people live out here. Some of the towns are 20 miles from any sort of gas pump, and there don't seem to be hardly any businesses in them, so I'm like how do people get supplies?

Like all these litte names on the map, there's maybe 4 houses in each and no stores

Outrail posted:

American: How to gently caress can anyone live 20 miles from the nearest store? How could you possibly attain the necessary supplies to sustain a life?

Also American: Welp, time for my daily 2 hour commute to the office.

Yeah I get it too, I live in a small but it's a holiday destination so we have two supermarkets and all the usual stuff. But living in some two house town with nothing but sketchy hillbilly neighbours is a step I'm probably not willing to take just yet.

Outrail posted:

American: How to gently caress can anyone live 20 miles from the nearest store? How could you possibly attain the necessary supplies to sustain a life?

Also American: Welp, time for my daily 2 hour commute to the office.

Yeah I get it too, I live in a small but it's a holiday destination so we have two supermarkets and all the usual stuff. But living in some two house town with nothing but sketchy hillbilly neighbours is a step I'm probably not willing to take just yet.

Juando290 posted:

I know that Oregon has come up a few times already, but there are a lot of backwoods towns spread out that are peak Americana. I grew up in an unincorporated area where the high school was ok sized, but it served a 25 square mile area of small towns. My parents went to a high school about 20 miles south where there were anywhere from 8 to 12 kids in each graduating class. The "main town" of Veneta is best known for the Oregon Country Fair that is really just a hippy fest in the forest that started back in 1969... The town is fairly conservative, but the fair brings a lot of money in every year, so they accept it...but not without making fun of all the "smelly hippies" while taking their money. Most of us saw our first real naked breast on a woman at that fair, I swear.


next pic nsfw












The house my mom grew up in during the 50's/60's It was actually right next to a bar that my Grandpa owned the property it was on...It was closed by the time I was born, but I remember there was a naked lady vase I could see through the window.



and the "Hobbit House" up the hill from there



Who here remembers when they decided to blow up a whale to get rid of it's carcass? America loves blowing poo poo up!



A few more random Oregon pictures.














(I have been to this bar when I am camping more times than I would like to admit...)




This is a restaurant in the literal middle of nowhere called Cowboy Dinner Tree. You have to drive 5 miles down a road away from the town of silver lake (population has fluctuated between 29 and 104 people over the last decade) and this restaurant is the only thing on that road..after that it turns to gravel roads for many many miles.

Robo Reagan posted:

There's a couple of states that do that. New Jersey does. Not sure if it's a safety thing or if it's a way to add busywork jobs like the guy who had the brilliant idea to bury a bunch of coins in a field and let homeless/poors dig it up

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

My dad's family moved to a place in north central PA back in the early seventies from north New Jersey after school desegregation ().

It got so cold in the winter there that you had to take your car battery inside with you, there were zero public services except sketchy telephone that didn't work half the time even in the nineties, and the nearest grocery store was nearly an hour one way. When winter came you didn't go anywhere for long periods of time.

Great place to land a 15 year old who was used to the New York City suburbs.

Robo Reagan posted:

my extended family lives either in the deep south or PA and absolutely nowhere else. Is PA the Alabama of the north?

Robo Reagan posted:

my extended family lives either in the deep south or PA and absolutely nowhere else. Is PA the Alabama of the north?

colonelwest posted:

I grew up in Pennsylvania and out of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic states I think it has the most stark urban/rural divide. Pittsburg and Philadelphia are completely different worlds compared to the middle/North of the state. It gets rednecky out there in a weird and depressing way.

There is a larger portion of depressed and hollowed out former industrial and mining towns, compared to say central Virginia which has a lot of really nice small towns that are still vibrant. There are places like Ashland that are almost lost in time.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I grew up right up the road from Ashland on Rt. 61 and that entire area is a hole. Anyone who wants better out of life than that area can provide ends up moving and what's left are people who genuinely like wallowing in the poo poo that those areas represent. It's a self-reinforcing downward spiral.

I still have a lot of family in that area but they're mostly younger and grew up in the internet area where you can shut out the world beyond your front door much more easily than I could in the nineties.