Over sized and odd ball attractions

[Biggo]

World longest place name and NO I cant pronounce it

 

[Upt' North]

This rolls off the tongue too.
Click

 

[kiltman]

Do you have any spare change? I grew up in a town noted for where astronauts practiced their lunar landing, and of course the big nickel.
The story goes the promoter had no money but wanted to put Sudbury on the map for confederation, went through lots of hoops but in the end made a fortune., creating a theme park with a big nickle

 

[The Cheese]

Found this on my way back from OHstoc. Ashland KY.

 

[Larry Fine]

Now imagine getting in it.

 

[fnmag]

Found this on my way back from OHstoc. Ashland KY.

There's just no accounting for taste.

 

[dwalby]

There's just no accounting for taste.

I was thinking the same thing, why an orange bag instead of black??

 

[Oldbikefixr]

Now imagine getting in it.

One of my grad school classmates occasionally drove her husband's hiked-up pickup . She is short to begin with, making the bottom of the door about waist high for her. Husband was creative enough to make a little aluminum step ladder accessible when the driver's door was opened. It was light enough she could pull it up once inside and stow it back behind the driver's seat.

 

[The Cheese]

I was thinking the same thing, why an orange bag instead of black??

Because black was more expensive!

 

[Coop]

Do you have any spare change? I grew up in a town noted for where astronauts practiced their lunar landing, and of course the big nickel.
The story goes the promoter had no money but wanted to put Sudbury on the map for confederation, went through lots of hoops but in the end made a fortune., creating a theme park with a big nickle

Don't they mine nickel there?

 

[fnmag]

Just remember....don't take any wooden nickels.

 

[kiltman]

Don't they mine nickel there?

Yes and copper. There were huge smelters in Coppercliff and Coniston, both small towns outside of Sudbury. Sulfer was the biproduct of the smelting of metal and the sulfer was what gave the area a moonscape appearence. Over the past 30 years Sudbury has become green again.

 

[wingdoc5]

 

[caldercay]

 

[wingdoc5]

 

[caldercay]

wow ... a year+ and no other oddball stuff in the world? : )

 

[Larry Fine]

wow ... a year+ and no other oddball stuff in the world? : )

How about me?

 

[cdnemsguy]

OK, I have no idea why this was built, and why it is on a farm that is on a rarely travelled road. Pretty cool though, especially since my daughter is terrified of spiders.

 

[dwalby]

we get these occasionally showing up on the property. I put in the grapefruit (or was it a lemon, I forgot) for a size reference, not to feed it.

 

[caldercay]

OK, I have no idea why this was built, and why it is on a farm that is on a rarely travelled road.

Sadly, I'm "that" person who'd walk onto the property to ask "why" : )