“Sam” is located in front of the Cadet Restaurant in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. I used to travel US Route 422 on my way to my brother’s house in northwestern Pennsylvania and pass by this huge sculpture. One time I decided to stop and snap his photogenic self. This statue has been there since 1962 when “Sam” was at a filling station / garage and uniformed as a gas station attendant before the restaurant took him over and added the giant burger in his big mitts.
With several days to spend in Porto, Jonathan L explores several aspects of local culture
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This iconic tree along The 17 Mile Drive is always a beautiful picture.
Of all the grand features of Paris’s Grands Magasins, Paul Heymont’s favorite is the stained glass dome at Printemps
DrFumblefinger shares images of a Lewis and Clark statue he spotted on the Boise State Capitol grounds.
George’s visit to Virginia’s Transportation Museum in Roanoke highlights the aircraft collection
George G shares views of the Charlottesville campus and memories of an unusual student rebellion
George G gives us a taste of the wide collection that reflects Virginia’s transportation heritage
The Muffler Man has an almost 60 year history in Roadside Americahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik…ext=Muffler%20men%20(or%20muffler%20man,designed%20to%20hold%20an%20axe.
At Jasper White’s Summer Shack restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts there’s one who now appears to be a salty old fisherman; he began life as a Polynesian warrior when the site was occupied by a Tiki bar.
I think I found the old Tiki Bar and Summer Shack that Paul was referring to in Cambridge Mass.
I finally managed to educate myself about the mysterious ‘Muffler Man’. Nothing to do with scarves, apparently. It is not an expression used over here.
Yep, that’s him!