SPRING BREAK 2000

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Wacky Roadside Stops

• By Jillian Muse

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Where to stop off at

• Miami, FL
• Anniston, AL
• Lathrop, CA
• Houston, TX

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Miami Florida

• Miami Police Museum

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Miami Police Museum

• The Miami Police Museum is a must visit.
• At the entrance, a police car is suspended on
  the wall.

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Miami Police Museum

• Upon entering, you are greeted by the police car
  from "Blade Runner," which didn't seem in the
  movie to be a bright orange, but it is here.

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Miami Police Museum

• There is a gas chamber, an electric chair, an old
  dungeon, a modern jail cell, and other outdated
  punishment devices that the Miami police seem to
  wish to bring back.

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Anniston Alabama

• Worlds Largest Chair

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Worlds Largest Chair

• In the early eighties, Miller
  Office Supply of Anniston, AL, built a
  thirty-three-foot-tall office chair in a vacant
  lot next to its store.

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Worlds Largest Chair

• The chair was made of ten tons of steel.
• It could withstand 85 mph winds and a special
  spiral staircase led to its seat.

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Worlds Largest Chair

• It quickly became Annistons landmark.

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Lathrop California

• Crashed UFO
• If only every alien invasion was this
  well-received.

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Crashed UFO

• Fortunately for the town of Lathrop, the flying
  saucer that smacked into the local Tower Mart
  disgorged nothing but fun-loving aliens and green
  plasma.

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Crashed UFO

• The Tower Mart is a grocery store/convenience
  chain store close to the interstate ribbon that
  ties Sacramento and San Francisco to LA through
  the flat, dull central valley of California.

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Crashed UFO

• I-5 has a speedy 80mph kind of pace, so most
  passers hurtling by never notice the 30 foot
  diameter saucer sticking halfway out of the
  sloping roof of the Mart.

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Crashed UFO

• Inside, it's even crazier -- saucer men are
  everywhere scuttling along counters in every
  aisle, squeezing milk cartons and extracting the
  yolk from all the eggs.

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Crashed UFO

• The other half of the saucer is visible poking
  through a blistered hole in the ceiling, the
  craft badly damaged.

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Crashed UFO

• They won't be going home any time soon...
• And why should they? The locals hardly notice
  now.

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Houston Texas

• Beer Can House

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Beer Can House

• In 1968, John Milkovisch was just another retired
  employee of Southern Pacific railroad.
• He lived in an undistinguished house in an
  undistinguished suburban neighborhood of Houston.

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Beer Can House

• Then John got antsy and began decorating his
  patio with pieces of brass, marbles, rocks and
  buttons.
• Then he tore up the lawn and replaced it with
  similar glittery debris.

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Beer Can House

• The house itself was next.
• John took beer cans and flattened them into
  aluminum siding.

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Beer Can House

• Beer cans quickly became John's exclusive medium
  - a convenient one, since John drank a lot of
  beer.

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Beer Can House

• He worked on the house for the next 18 years,
  adding a six-pack a day into its construction -
  roughly 39,000 cans.

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Beer Can House

• He linked pull-tabs into long streamers to make
  curtains that chimed in the wind.

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Beer Can House

• John passed away several years ago but his Beer
  Can House is still intact.
• Mary, his wife, is still here, and welcomes
  visitors.

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The road has end for our trip, but visit

• www.roadsideamerica.com
• And plan your own trip!

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BYE-BYE!