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Milo and POTUS posted:loaded bake potatoes own sorry Get his rear end
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Milo and POTUS posted:loaded bake potatoes own sorry I bet you're not sorry at all!
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Americana email I got from Nextdoor:
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I was wondering how long it would take to see something I recognized from my old stomping grounds in this thread. Unsurprisingly, the owners announced that they were shutting down that hotel a few years ago and there was some serious fuckin' outcry from the locals - the same locals that would only use it as a landmark to figure out how much longer they'd have to be on that god forsaken death trap that the state called a highway.
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wjere is it i want to visit
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Aardvark! posted:Americana email I got from Nextdoor: It lines up perfectly with your avatar, down to the misidentification of the critter. Anywho, I just wanted to thank you for this thread, it's a lot of fun.
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Listen, I'm gonna come down there for two to three days - I got two jeeps full of weights and I'm gonna spreeeeead out. I'm gonna spread em all out and I'm gonna be liftin weights and eating raw meat for two days straight.
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Weka posted:It lines up perfectly with your avatar, down to the misidentification of the critter. Trying to get to the garbage can on the right.
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Milo and POTUS posted:wjere is it i want to visit Williams, Arizona https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/road-trips/2019/06/14/flintstones-bedrock-city-arizona-opens-final-summer/1447633001/
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Man, I had to look that up. I don't know how the hell that's considered Williams because it's much farther north on Highway 64 in the middle of nowhere. Google Maps actually says it's still open.
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Tex Avery posted:I was wondering how long it would take to see something I recognized from my old stomping grounds in this thread. There were four Flintstones/ Bedrock City campgrounds, all of which are closed: Custer, South Dakota Williams, Arizona Chilliwack, British Columbia Kelowna, British Columbia My family camped at the one in South Dakota when I was a kid, and it was awesome.
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Tex Avery posted:Man, I had to look that up. I don't know how the hell that's considered Williams because it's much farther north on Highway 64 in the middle of nowhere. Google Maps actually says it's still open. It closed in 2019.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:It closed in 2019. It sort of closed in 2019. Jenny Nicholson stopped by there in 2020 en route to buy a giant plush spider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CRXUeTmNtE
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i've shot a bunch of americana photos over the years, here's some that i feel map to the "american experience" directly         
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Nigmaetcetera posted:It sort of closed in 2019. Jenny Nicholson stopped by there in 2020 en route to buy a giant plush spider. the perfect woman
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ansel autisms posted:i've shot a bunch of americana photos over the years, here's some that i feel map to the "american experience" directly These are fantastic!
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Aardvark! posted:love those pics. 50s poo poo is always peak americana This twitter account has a bunch of gen-u-ine 50s Americana: https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1359595146434723846?s=19 https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1359221055517315074?s=19 https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1358506867861975043?s=19 https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1358209337857105929?s=19 https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1357759303189483521?s=19 https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1357480349438267393?s=19
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BalloonFish posted:This twitter account has a bunch of gen-u-ine 50s Americana: Enjoy seeing a time when every single item on a diner is expressed in cents
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Aardvark! posted:Enjoy seeing a time when every single item on a diner is expressed in cents Even adjusting it for inflation, I would kill for a $5 omelette.
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MrQueasy posted:Even adjusting it for inflation, I would kill for a $5 omelette. Same. Many restaurants have realized that breakfast is highly profitable and use it to offset the low margins of the rest of the day. That's why a lot of places like Wendy's and Taco Bell have added breakfast menus. And why we've seen an increase in breakfast prices that is well above the increase in non-breakfast prices. Two months ago, I got Mcdonald breakfast for the first time in 5 years and was shocked at how much a simple Sausage/Egg McMuffin costs. Even the local diners in the area were charging $9+ for an omelet when I went there the last time pre-covid. The cost of the omelet is probably half that (depending on ingredients) so the restaurants are making far more margin on an omelet than most other things. Hilariously, pizza is the same way and it's hilarious how much places charge for pizzas at menu price. When I worked at a pizza place 15 years ago, pizzas were a 50-75% margin business. I think their price has grown a little slower than other food items but they are still likely very high margin compared to any burger place. Saltpowered fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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BalloonFish posted:https://twitter.com/Kodakforever/status/1357759303189483521?s=19 Sorry, but these are Canadiana. Fred Herzog was a pretty interesting guy.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:There were four Flintstones/ Bedrock City campgrounds, all of which are closed: Yeah, the one in Custer was legitimately a cool tourist place for kids in the 90s. Half surprised it closed considering much shittier tourist traps in the black hills have thrived in the meantime.
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McGavin posted:Sorry, but these are Canadiana. I would say Canadians have their own unique Americana-once-removed
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5er posted:What in the Grover-loving gently caress is going on here? a living metaphor for fascism
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5er posted:What in the Grover-loving gently caress is going on here? americana
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5er posted:What in the Grover-loving gently caress is going on here? A neoclassical Palladian cargo cult.
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5er posted:What in the Grover-loving gently caress is going on here? Groverwhitehaus.
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in terms of capturing a little piece of something that used to be ubiquitous but has now almost completely disappeared, check out the ceiling behind the dude stamped tin used to be THE interior treatment, for like 40 years (w/ some time outs for wars and depressions where not a lot of new civil construction happened). genuine whole artistic community of pattern designers, stamping the sheets was one of the cottage industries that would be done in-house in the upper floor workshops of a department store and it was so ubiquitous, like linoleum, that it largely hasn't been considered especially worthy of preservation, but i think its cool af.    McGavin posted:Sorry, but these are Canadiana. canada is america dipshit
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In Southern Kommiefornia we're approaching $15 omelettes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfQgGIYvzA It's not an omelette, but still. There was a place called Dean's Cafe that a friend and I would go a couple times a year back in the 90's. For about eight bucks we'd each get bacon swiss tomato bell pepper and avocado omelette about the size of a car muffler. With a side of hash browns. We never finished it, just too much food. Except the last time we went there. My friend was moving to another state, and we sat there for over an hour, finishing our omelettes for the first and last time. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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ansel autisms posted:i've shot a bunch of americana photos over the years, here's some that i feel map to the "american experience" directly Are some of these from Oregon?
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Bismuth posted:Are some of these from Oregon? yeah, the sahara motel is in jordan valley, the mountain mural is in a portland bar, and the neon church is in the willamette valley somewhere
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ansel autisms posted:yeah, the sahara motel is in jordan valley, the mountain mural is in a portland bar, and the neon church is in the willamette valley somewhere I think that bar is where Loretta Lynn and Jack White filmed "Portland, Oregon" but I can't find the video any more. edit: WOW, my memory was way off. Ignore me.
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5er posted:What in the Grover-loving gently caress is going on here? The Confederate White House under construction, colored, circa 2022
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Ah,yes, the old TWA terminal at JFK. I used to fly in and out of there on my way to/from college. Gorgeous, but by the late 90s it was pretty clear that it had not been built with the actual future of air travel in mind. It seemed perpetually crowded. EDIT: Oh poo poo, they turned it into a hotel. I had not heard about that. Pretty awesome. Meaty Ore fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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