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If anyone thinks Texas is not stuck somewhere in history, I present this Lone Star Beer cap.

Its not that hard to figure out, but nobody aged 21 would get it.

Once an amusement park and home to a live underwater mermaid show, Ralph the Swimming Pig, and a Swiss Sky Ride, Aquarena Springs in San Marcos, Texas has been taken over by Texas State University and is now a “nature preserve.” The park itself is a bit rundown, but a little fence hopping can get you some nice views of some rotting attractions, and you still can ride in a perfectly maintained glass bottom boat.

Postcards:

And a little souvenir patch for the glass bottom boat:

The Munsters did not move to Texas, however, the McKee family of Waxahachie have completely re-created their mansion from studying hours of the classic TV show. Odd? Yes. Cool? Yes.

The house is open for tours once a year.

Some information can be found on their website.

In Fort Worth Texas, there is a plainly marked grave in a depressing little graveyard, containing the body of perhaps the 20th Century’s most unlikely villians. The evidence is still strong that Lee Harvey didn’t kill JFK, but we’ll probably never know.

On a side note, Lee suffers the final indignation of having a practical joker purchase the plot next to his, with a headstone that reads “NICK BEEF.” As far as I am aware, nobody occupies that plot.

His mother, however, believes he was innocent, and wrote a letter to Playboy magazine thanking them for running their story on Jim Garrison’s investigation into the assassination:

One of the more obscure, and hard to pinpoint, tourist traps in Florida is the (once very popular) Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum. Open only certain days, and for only a few hours, this little hole in the wall has everything you could ever want to see that has anything to with the former sexiest man alive, Burt Reynolds. Whether you go because its a classic slice of American Cheese, or because you honestly see Burt as a serious actor (I am, actually, the latter, Bandit movies aside,) this place fulfills everything you could ever want.

Postcards are available:

They have one of the original canoes from Deliverance:

Although it may not seem like it now, Mr. Reynolds was once considered the heir to Marlon Brando:

Restored by some Texas Lottery winners, this amazing motel sits in the middle of nowhere, about 60 miles south of Houston. I have spent two weekends here, and here are a couple images from my most recent trip.

This first image was taken on some very very old Polaroid Type 88 peel apart film:

This next shot is a Polaroid on fresh Fuji FP-3000B Instant peel apart film, me, acting like a tourist:

And finally, a Kodachrome slide of the TeePees with the latest addition of the grounded arrows:

Today we have three images (color corrected snapshot scans) from my very first trip to Walt Disney World, I was approximately 2 years old and of course, the smallest one …

An iconic image, bursting with enthusiasm:

Here is my dad carrying me, and a Kodak XL55 Super8 movie camera across the barrel bridge on Tom Sawyer Island:

And here is my brother, my stepmom and Pinocchio, who sure wishes he were a real boy:

Boerne, Texas is home to a number of tourist traps, this one being one of the (most likely, best) stars of the movie “Father Hood” (also starring the late Patrick Swayze). These slides, bumper stickers, and REALLY old postcards, were “for sale” in the gift shop, and I will post a few more later…

Sold under the “Panorama” brand name:

“Waterfall” – a stunning color slide, actually:

“Giant Molar”

I’m going to start this off with a photo I took in 2008. Here is my friend Anik, getting attacked by a giant bear statue in Kissimmee Florida. Photo was taken with a Polaroid Automatic 420 Land Camera.