Old landmarks (such as building with Pepsi logo in Cincinnati, 1970s)
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in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
out.
In the '70s in Cincinnati, along one of the Interstates, there was this
building with a HUGE Pepsi logo that looked really weird when they lit
it up at night. I don't know exactly where it was, but I'm thinking it
was southbound on I-75 near I-74.
What was this building for? Does the building still exist? I remember
around 1982 they removed the weird lighting, so the logo could still be
there, but just isn't nearly as noticeable.
k_f...@lycos.com
>From U.S. 22 in Easton PA there was (and I think still is) the big
Dixie Cup on top of the Dixie Cup factory off 25th Street. It was the
water tower for the plant. It wasn't hard to figure out though, using
your criteria.
ARMOURER ERIC
Pittsburgh:
Clark bar factory near stadum
Alcoa sign/clock on Mt Washington
In CA
The Miller plant on I-210 east of Pasadena
OG Loc
> Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads
> in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
> something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
> out.
There's a sign off of I-540 in Fort Smith for a Coke bottler that is shaped
like the lid of an old-style Coke bottle. When I was a kid, it terrified me
to ride by it.
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>>From U.S. 22 in Easton PA there was (and I think still is) the big
>Dixie Cup on top of the Dixie Cup factory off 25th Street. It was the
>water tower for the plant. It wasn't hard to figure out though, using
>your criteria.
Was this anywhere near the Keebler thing? I was up that way once in '91
and there was this big building with the Keebler logo on it (though the
logo wasn't that big).
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said:
>There's a sign off of I-540 in Fort Smith for a Coke bottler that is shaped
>like the lid of an old-style Coke bottle. When I was a kid, it terrified me
>to ride by it.
It's strange you should mention that. There was this one Pepsi
commercial when I was a kid that absolutely terrified me. I forgot about
it until now. Also, there was this thing on "Sesame Street" that had a
cartoon of a person planting flowers and the flowers die. I was
absolutely frightened to no end by this cartoon.
Also, I vaguely remember being terrified by some of the roads around
here, particularly KY 445 between Fort Thomas Avenue and KY 8, even
though this road really isn't all that scary. I had confused this road
with some other road I remember seeing when I was 2 or 3. I have no idea
what road I confused it with, but the road I confused it with was in a
heavily wooded area and had a tree growing in the middle of the road,
with a curve of about 90 degrees where the tree was. This would have
been in '76 or so.
Dayton Pike actually is a really scary road, and I was frightened by it
because of the way it looked. It also had very old signage at the time,
which basically made it look abandoned.
k_f...@lycos.com
No idea. Sorry. I moved away in '74 and return a lot for visits, but
never saw a Keebler plant. There *was* a big Keebler plant with the
elves and all along I-70 here in Denver. I covered a story there once
when the big butter vat leaked and spilled into the neighborhood storm
sewers, creating a mammoth sized clogging of the arteries.
Also in Easton was what we called Coca Cola Mountain. It was an old
(early '20s maybe?) painted billboard on the stone face of Mount Ida,
along the Lehigh River at the Third Street Bridge (old US 611, now PA
611) where the Lehigh Valley RR and Jersey Central tracks converged
before crossing the Delaware River into NJ. Last time I was back, it
was pretty faded and hard to discern.
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There's some old building somewhere in Cincinnati that has all these
famous musicians (Stevie Wonder is one of them) painted on it. I've
actually seen this building within the past few years, but I don't
remember where it was or what it was used for.
Gary E. Ansok
Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts <mister19...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads
>in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
>something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
>out.
There was the building along CA-17 (now I-880) with the sign on top
reading "STOP CASTING POROSITY".
Gary Ansok
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Nicholson that said "GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N."
John Lansford
>Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads
>in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
>something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
>out.
>
On Monteagle Mountain as you climb up from the west side on I-24, the
interstate cuts through part of the mountain on the right. I remember
as a child there was an enormous boulder perched on a smaller one up
above the interstate at the top of the slope. Small trees were growing
out of the top of the big boulder. It remained there for years until
just a few years ago I noticed it had been removed, probably for
safety reasons.
On US 401 north of Raleigh there is a huge statue of what appears to
be a woodcutter or farmer standing in a field. I have no idea what he
represents or where he came from.
On I-24 outside of South Pittsburgh, TN there was a section of
interstate where you could look straight down the rail line into a
steel mill and watch the molten steel splattering out of the Bessemer
converters. The mill's been closed for over a decade now, though :(
Also on I-24, as you approach Chattanooga from the west, there are
some Civil War monuments right off the interstate R/W commemorating
one of the more minor battles fought during the siege of that city.
The monuments honor a couple of Union regiments that stood against a
surprise night assault by Confederate units. You can also see
numerous Civil War monuments on the crest of Lookout Mountain from
I-24 as you approach Moccasin Bend in Chattanooga.
John Lansford, PE
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Rich Carlson, N9JIG
mister19...@hotmail.com (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts) wrote:
> Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads
> in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
> something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
> out.
>
On the north side of Chicago along I-94 (Edens Hwy) there was a huge red
Magikist kissing lips sign that was a local landmark until it
disappeared in the 1980's.
There was a similar sign along I-17 in Phoenix which still exists,
although it is (or at least was) a KNIX Radio sign. I don't recall if
this was originally a Magikist sign or something else, it had been KNIX
for decades.
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You people _are_ aware of Muffler Men aren't you? They're giant, usually
fiberglass statues of Men (mostly) advertising mufflers, used car lots,
drive-ins, and other businesses. One in Albuquerque is dressed as a
lumberjack, and is above a Vietnamese restaurant that used to be a
hardware store.
The Roadside America website (mostly about "offbeat tourist
attractions") has pages just devoted to them:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/muffler/index.html
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Wally Sevits
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>Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads
>in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
>something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
>out.
>
Somewhere in Los Angeles on I-5 south of downtown there is a
collection of buildings just to the east of the freeway that have odd
figures like from Egyptian or Babylonian times cast into the walls.
Although there is at least one real building there, some appear to be
only walls on the freeway side. I've always been curious what this
was, or what it was when first built.
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Patrick Lee Humphrey
>Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads
>in the olden days? This could be a building, mill, land formation, or
>something else that they saw repeatedly but could never really figure
>out.
For almost 40 years, on the inbound Southwest Freeway (US 59) in Houston, just
before the Chimney Rock intersection on the right (for northbounders) was
Holder's Pest Control -- which had an 18-foot metal roach cutout, with
"Holder's" in white paint. (There was neon around the periphery of the
roach.) The exterminators moved a few blocks away last summer, and the roach
was taken down in June or July -- but it will reappear one day, when the
exterminators have the new location settled. It won't be getting quite the
exposure it did, though, as it was on the approach to the busiest freeway
interchange in the state of Texas, and was seen by some 150K+ vehicles a
day...
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Bunny Bread sign. The bakery on the northside of the Washington St./BUS
US 41 intersection with Lincoln Ave. was the Bunny Bread Bakery. In the
early 1990s, it was bought out by Tastee Bread and recently by Sara
Lee. You could see the sign from the US 41/M-28 bypass to the north at
night.
The neon sign was of a giant bunny head. There were two sets of ears
outlined in neon that would alternate. This made it look like the bunny
was tipping his ears forward and then back upright. The sign is now on
display at the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum in Marquette, on
Baraga Ave. just west of Front St./BUS US 41.
-Michael P. Gronseth
Negaunee, MI
Rich Carlson, N9JIG
"bulld...@yahoo.com" <bulld...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I used to travel to and thru Marquette often and always bought Bunny
Bread. Marquette had a few other neat things one does not see much,
including a weird drive-thru Wendy's that was actually part of a party
store (another U.P. oddity) at CR550 and Wright St. I used to walk there
from the Tourist Park, a city owned campground on 550. I used to hike to
the bluff to view the bay just north of there.
Another Marquette landmark was the old Soo ore dock, an "If you don't
see it you must be blind" thing that defined Marquette for decades. Old
US-41 (Bus-41) crossed under it before heading west past the Bunny
Bakery and eventually out of town.
Marquette during the late 80's and 1990's was kind of a throwback to the
50's, a clean, old fashioned small college town.
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pulled down. There is no longer the "Welcome to Marquette, Home of
Nothern Michigan University" signing over Front St. anymore. The City
is working to develop the old railroad ROW as a linear "pocket park".
Mark F
This is the Citadel, an outlet mall in the city of Commerce. It
was originally built in 1929 as the Samson Tire factory and was a
Uniroyal tire factory up to the 1980s.
More info here:
http://citadel.webmergeinc.us/
Sir Hailstone - BOFH
> On the north side of Chicago along I-94 (Edens Hwy) there was a huge red
> Magikist kissing lips sign that was a local landmark until it
> disappeared in the 1980's.
>
> There was a similar sign along I-17 in Phoenix which still exists,
> although it is (or at least was) a KNIX Radio sign. I don't recall if
> this was originally a Magikist sign or something else, it had been KNIX
> for decades.
>
I remember the Magnikist sign. Although I always thought it was on the
Dan Ryan. I recall too Zenith had a huge lightup sign along an
expressway too, I can't remember if it was the Ryan or the Kennedy.
Note to Pete & HB: That would be a good one for that fella's sign museum.
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Mike - Indianapolis, IN
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Mike S
It was formerly a tire factory. Here's a link with more information.