Regionalism
Killer Bee Monument
Source, with info.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 17, 2020 -
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Category: Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Insects, Regionalism, Statues and Monuments
Interama
A Utopian project in Miami that never materialized.Wikipedia article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 29, 2020 -
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Category: Architecture, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Government, Regionalism, 1960s
Becoming Leslie
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 11, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Regionalism, Documentaries, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Rocket Robin Hood
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 08, 2020 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Regionalism, Science Fiction, Cartoons, 1960s
The Malibu Remuda of 1947
The "Remuda" or horse show by all accounts featured a "western bathing beauty contest." But I can't locate a pic of the actual winner. However, these lovelies were in attendance, and certainly the giant hat qualifies this as one of our Weird Beauty Contests.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 01, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, 1940s
Florida Ghost Towns
How does a Florida ghost town exist in one of the fastest growing states in our country? Many early Florida towns were located near natural resources. These communities grew up to house and support companies and people who turned the resources into products. There were towns that relied on fishing, clams, lumber, phosphate, citrus, cattle, oysters, watermelons, celery, and other products of sea and earth. There were also boom time towns that were really just lot sales programs. Many of these towns barely got off the ground when they collapsed during the Florida land sale bust that preceded the Great Depression. As natural resources were exhausted or economic depression, hurricanes, and freezes slammed into the state, many of these towns folded and mostly disappeared. Railroads closed, highways were built that bypassed the town, other things happened that made the town only a footnote in history.
Good article here.
Another article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 20, 2019 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Destruction, Regionalism
Jon & Robin
Their Wikipedia page.
Many more songs here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 19, 2019 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Regionalism, 1960s
The City of Napoleon, Washington State
Today, Chetlo Harbor in Washington State looks pretty much like the picture below, taken from the site of the Chetlo Harbor Shellfish Company.
But in 1910, the location was going to be Napolean, the biggest port in the world!
Source for ad. You can blow up the text to readable size there.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 14, 2019 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Real Estate, Regionalism, 1910s
Spikehorn Meyer, Friend to Bears
One of the forerunners of those folks who cuddle up to bears. Luckily, Spikehorn was never hurt.Article here.
Find-a-grave site.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 21, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Eccentrics, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
The World’s Most Unusual Drugstore
See their complete 1942 ad here.
"Stack it high and sell it cheap" was Doc Webb's motto. Over the years, he built his empire from a small drug store at Ninth Street and Second Avenue, opened in 1925, to a sprawling bazaar of 77 stores, covering seven city blocks. Webb was as much a national legend as his stores. The unorthodox, merchandising medicine man always had a gimmick to lure thousands of customers through the doors. At ten cents a dance, no wonder the Dancing Chicken generated excitement at Webb's City in this 1975 photo. He sold dollar bills for 89 cents and bought them back the next day for $1.35. He offered three-cent breakfasts, brought in animals that performed at the drop of a coin and mermaids who "talked." He made other merchants mad because he sold his wares below the suppliers' suggested prices.
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 20, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, Eccentrics, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
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