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- Winchester, Va. - apple country
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- Roadside Giants™
- by Brian & Sarah Butko
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- Coming in
September 2005
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- We've stopped at them for years, sometimes
for a photo or just to gaze. Buildings shaped like the products
sold inside. Coffeepots. The Big Duck. Or some like the Ship
Hotel and Haines Shoe House that were just whimsical recreations.
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- Then there are big signs shaped like the
product made there, like the big baseball bat at Louisville Slugger.
Statues of a man selling a muffler. Or the same kinda guy selling
carpet.
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- There are great books and web sites available
on large roadside attractions, but it can be cumbersome to organize
the info when you're hitting the road. That's why we've written
Roadside Giants, a glove compartment-size guide to some
of the most interesting programmatic buildings and signs.
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- We give you directions and history for
many of the well-known giants but also locate some amazing, often-overlooked
finds. We also include lots of other information you'll want
once you become addicted to visiting these places, as we think
you will. They're a great reason to pull off the road and enjoy
the scenery for a while.
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 Come
along for the ride in Fall 2005, when Roadside Giants
will be published by Stackpole Books.
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| Top: Paul and Babe
at Bemidji, Minn.; bottom: A Muffler Man at Wilson's Carpet,
beneath the Pulaski Skyway, Jersey City, N.J. |
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