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Pantages Theater
Pantages Theater is right on Hollywood Boulevard and should definitely be a stop on your Hollywood road trip. You will need to buy a...
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Grant Guy
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Belmont Park
Belmont Park is a vintage amusement park by the ocean boardwalk of Mission Beach in San Diego. It opened in 1925, and its most iconic...
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Grant Guy
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Santee Drive-In
Sitting on 13 acres in the back blocks of San Diego, under the glow of a fabulous neon sign, lies the still operational Santee Drive-In....
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Grant Guy
Aug 6, 20232 min read
Rudford's Diner
San Diego’s Rudford’s shiny steel diner is a classic, open 7 days a week and 24 hours a day since 1949. After opening those glass and...
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Grant Guy
Aug 6, 20231 min read
Joor Muffler Man
We LOVE Escondido for boasting more than its fair share of quirky roadside attractions and the giant 25-foot-tall fiberglass Joor Muffler...
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Grant Guy
Jun 19, 20231 min read
Big Bear Giant Swing
Can there be many more locations that sound as adorabubble as Shady Lane Park? And tiny Shady Lane Park tucked away in a suburban street...
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Grant Guy
Jun 19, 20231 min read
Hawaii Theatre
The beautiful, restored Hawaii Theater, located on the edge of Chinatown in Honolulu, celebrated its 100th birthday in 2022. “The Pride...
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Grant Guy
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Museum of Broadway
One million gajillion stars for The Museum of Broadway. It is an eye poppingly fun experience not to be missed. What sets the Broadway...
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Grant Guy
Jun 1, 20231 min read
Aloha from Waikiki Mural
You’re terrible Muriel - but you’re fabulous mural! We just love a vintage postcard style mural, so our eyes popped out of our heads with...
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Grant Guy
May 14, 20231 min read
Siegfried and Roy's Jungle Palace
Siegfried and Roy’s compound, dubbed the "Jungle Palace”, was their Las Vegas home for over 30 years. Built in 1954, the compound...
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Grant Guy
May 14, 20231 min read
The Big Lumberjack
Little Louie the Lumberjack is a 10-foot-tall lumberjack who stands randomly in a car park in Flagstaff Arizona. The location was once...
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Grant Guy
May 14, 20231 min read
Greetings from Las Vegas Mural
We LOVE vintage postcard murals, and only recently discovered that more than 60 of these dotted all over the country are from the same...
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Grant Guy
May 14, 20231 min read
Lamb Rock
Here at Roadside Wonderland we pride ourselves on driving a long way out of our way to obscure destinations to see rocks painted to...
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Grant Guy
May 6, 20231 min read
Liberace Mansion
The Liberace Mansion was built in 1962 and purchased by Liberace in 1972. Actually, the mansion started life as two separate homes that...
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Grant Guy
Apr 2, 20231 min read
Tonka Truck Graveyard
Toot toot, hey, beep beep! Here, in somebody’s front, side and back yard lie 1000 dead Tonka Trucks - may they rest in peace, here in the...
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Grant Guy
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Thunderbird Lodge
Vintage neon sign alert! The neon sign at the Thunderbird Lodge in Riverside is epic. The 50 foot tall neon sign is topped with a...
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Grant Guy
Mar 29, 20231 min read
World's Biggest Button
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s a giant button flying through the air in the garment district of New York. Upon closer inspection it...
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Grant Guy
Feb 2, 20231 min read
The Last Tastee Freez
How bright and happy and full of ice cream Americans must have been when there was a Tastee Freez on every corner. This chalet of soft...
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Grant Guy
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Abandoned Perris Theater
Cinema came to Perris in the 1930’s in the shape of an outdoor open air theater. The success of that outdoor theater inspired Tom Sharp...
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Grant Guy
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Fox Theater Banning
What a glorious little jewel box The Fox Theater in Banning is. We have often seen its glorious neon sign in the distance from the 10...
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