Getting the Shot at Miata World ’99 in Dallas
Back in February of this year I took a photo album from 1989 off the shelf and scanned the photos I liked. I then used them to create five separate posts of content out of it.
Today I jumped ahead a decade to 1999 and scanned some images from the photo album of our trip to Dallas to a national Miata event. Most of these photos aren’t nearly as scenic as the 1989 ones. If you are new around here you might assume that all that Roadside America stuff from the recent April-May-June trip was something new, au contraire, I’ve been making road trips “meaningful” that way since the end of the last century. Postcards also played a crucial roll in this trip as well. See the – Slow Miata to Texas Tour
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- The Big Chicken in Marietta, GA has been there since 1963 and has survived near misses with the wrecking ball. First was in 1974 when Kentucky Fired Chicken bout the place from the previous owner and the Colonel himself didn’t like it. And then again in 1989 when KFC wanted to move it to a different restaurant. It’s still there and better than ever.
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- Cornerstone Inn in Cullum, Alabama. It was obviously his wife’s pet project, but she had since past away leaving the widower to keep it going. His customer service was very subpar for the Inn, but I’m speculating that he needed to keep going to supplement his Social Security. We skipped the breakfast for fear of what it might have been.
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- Elvis Presley Birthplace in Tupelo, MS. There was a planned stop for later that day at Graceland in Memphis, but neither of us was a big enough fan to want to pay to get in.
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- Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, AL is the work of one man, Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk who created 125 miniature replicas of famous houses of worship from around the world.
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- Old Union Bridge in Mentone, AL was moved here in 1972 from Lincoln, AL and this might be the first of “Miata on a Bridge” series.
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- A Texan and Me in Grapevine, TX. This is another one of my favorite things, sitting down next to a statue and pretend to chat it up.
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- Southfork, where Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing raised three sons: J.R., Gary and Bobby.
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- Luckily, Parker, TX, where Southfork is, was right on the way to Dallas.
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- Dinosaur World in Beaver, AR was started in 1967 and closed 6 years after we visited in 1999. The statues were pretty much laughable. They look liked they were modeled after children book’s drawings.
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- Dinosaur World, besides the unrecognizable dinosaurs it also included the incongruity of cavemen killing a buffalo.
