55.  Museum of the Sea and Indian

 

 

…Many dusty dioramas with mounted animals, free-roaming flocks of peafowl (most of the displays are open to the outdoors), a pitch-dark dilapidated maze of undetermined purpose, Indian artifacts of all kinds, a tumble-down zoo with enough empty cages to make you vaguely apprehensive, and a huge, ill-tempered alligator in a much-too-small concrete pool.  All of these things are wonderful in a way that only those who grew up in the Fifties can understand -- simple, low-tech, and real.  I hope that a buyer was found who appreciated and preserved this little shrine (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2856).

 

 

That is, it was tacky.

It blew down in Hurricane Opal.

It’s up there in Heaven with Shipwreck Island.

Concrete tiki-gods from Panama City Beach.

Water-slides and go-kart tracks.

 


 

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