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Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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Dixie Before Disney : 100 Years of Roadside Fun (99 Edition)

by Tim Hollis

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Before Walt Disney built his mammoth theme park, there were the Fairyland Caverns of Rock City Gardens, the glass-bottomed boats of Silver Springs, and Stuckey's Restaurants around each bend. From the Smoky Mountains to the Ozarks, from the Florida coast to the Mississippi gulf, the Southern roadside was a string of attractions--some based on history, some on pure imagination. Dixie Before Disney chronicles the wonderful and wacky history of these tourist spots.

Tourism rose in Dixie just after the Civil War, when Northern millionaires discovered the joys of spending the winter months in balmy Florida. Locales such as St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, and Miami Beach became snowbird playgrounds. Soon the roadsides were alive with eateries like Kentucky Fried Chicken and Horne's, and motels with names like Big Bear Cottages and the Sea Dip Motel. Later, jungle parks, nature sites, and Wild West towns began drawing funseekers. Then, in 1971, Walt Disney World in Orlando eclipsed them all.

For three decades Tim Hollis gathered family memorabilia and met with collectors nationwide. Lavishly illustrated with his findings--vintage photographs, brochures, advertisements, and postcards--Dixie Before Disney will bring back a torrent of memories for anyone who grew up traveling the South.

Tim Hollis is also the author of Cousin Cliff: 40 Magical Years in Television and of articles in the National Lum & Abner Society's The Jot 'Em Down Journal and the Society of Commercial Archaeologists' News-Journal.

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Chronicles the wonderful and wacky history of the popular tourist spots that filled this area before Walt Disney built his mammoth theme park. 15 color photos. 220 b&w photos. 235 illustrations.
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ISBN:
9781578061181
Subtitle:
100 Years of Roadside Fun
Author:
Hollis, Tim
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
Location:
Jackson :
Subject:
History
Subject:
Popular Culture
Subject:
United States - South - East South Central (General)
Subject:
United States - South - South Atlantic (General)
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Tourism
Subject:
Southern States Description and travel History.
Subject:
Popular Culture - General
Subject:
Tourism -- Southern States -- History.
Subject:
Southern States Description and travel.
Publication Date:
April 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
8.04x10.04x.49 in. 1.30 lbs.
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