I see things like this image sometimes and this is not "small town America". This is what was once small town America cosplaying as the idea of what small town America could have looked like. It...
I see things like this image sometimes and this is not "small town America". This is what was once small town America cosplaying as the idea of what small town America could have looked like. It is a tourist destination, not a small community.
They are playing on nostalgia for a set of people that are rapidly disappearing and it just makes me sad.
The jumbled, part amateur collection museum, part shop, built over years as the continued passion of one local person, built onto their house, is "not small town America"? To me, on the contrary,...
The jumbled, part amateur collection museum, part shop, built over years as the continued passion of one local person, built onto their house, is "not small town America"? To me, on the contrary, those feel like a common presence in small town America, and that place seems to have fit the type quite well. It was a one local person, who was born in the town and seems to have spent all of his life there involved in the community, who went the usual route of collecting random stuff with unclear meaning as a collection, then putting it on display in his garage and barn, gradually expanding, and never really creating it as something other than himself, existing somewhat outside of modern capitalism. The story even has one of the usual endings, with the supportive partner who expresses their deep love of the place while the person is alive, and then, within a few months of the person's death, decides out of some argued necessity that the best thing to do is to break up and auction off the entire collection (the other possibilities often being the local community awkwardly trying to take on running it, or some apprentice-like situation where someone new becomes involved, or, in some rare instances, expanding to something larger and losing its soul somehow).
(It is a bit odd that the article shows, without any note in the caption, a place that hasn't existed since 2020.)
Plenty of people think that about things in America, that it was just something from the movies. With all the Europeans visiting for the world cup, lots of people have been saying they were...
Plenty of people think that about things in America, that it was just something from the movies. With all the Europeans visiting for the world cup, lots of people have been saying they were surprised to see yellow school busses, fire hydrants, huge parking lots...
No some are really well traveled they just don't know certain things. I saw a German tourist who goes all over the world get very excited about a school bus. It was just new to him, especially in...
No some are really well traveled they just don't know certain things. I saw a German tourist who goes all over the world get very excited about a school bus. It was just new to him, especially in person.
I see things like this image sometimes and this is not "small town America". This is what was once small town America cosplaying as the idea of what small town America could have looked like. It is a tourist destination, not a small community.
They are playing on nostalgia for a set of people that are rapidly disappearing and it just makes me sad.
The jumbled, part amateur collection museum, part shop, built over years as the continued passion of one local person, built onto their house, is "not small town America"? To me, on the contrary, those feel like a common presence in small town America, and that place seems to have fit the type quite well. It was a one local person, who was born in the town and seems to have spent all of his life there involved in the community, who went the usual route of collecting random stuff with unclear meaning as a collection, then putting it on display in his garage and barn, gradually expanding, and never really creating it as something other than himself, existing somewhat outside of modern capitalism. The story even has one of the usual endings, with the supportive partner who expresses their deep love of the place while the person is alive, and then, within a few months of the person's death, decides out of some argued necessity that the best thing to do is to break up and auction off the entire collection (the other possibilities often being the local community awkwardly trying to take on running it, or some apprentice-like situation where someone new becomes involved, or, in some rare instances, expanding to something larger and losing its soul somehow).
(It is a bit odd that the article shows, without any note in the caption, a place that hasn't existed since 2020.)
All this time my dumb ass through this was a completely made up thing they invented for the Cars movie
Plenty of people think that about things in America, that it was just something from the movies. With all the Europeans visiting for the world cup, lots of people have been saying they were surprised to see yellow school busses, fire hydrants, huge parking lots...
To be fair many of those people must just be clueless in general.
No some are really well traveled they just don't know certain things. I saw a German tourist who goes all over the world get very excited about a school bus. It was just new to him, especially in person.
I'm sure I'd be the same.