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easton 5 days ago

Until this point I didn't know Big Tex was real and not just something in King of the Hill. And I've been to Texas!

Guess it's time to go back.

dreamcompiler 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Very real. It burned up a few years ago and they rebuilt it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tex

Also the Alamo (as in "Remember The") still exists. It's now a museum in downtown San Antonio.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Mission

pixl97 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seeing the Texas maps without interstates was interesting too, they make up so much of our driving these days.

bombcar 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/ Has tons and tons of those-find some near your location!

interloxia 5 days ago | parent [-]

The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

Which is what Internet Archive has as their latest scrape too.

The previous scrape worked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250906155345/https://www.roads...

bombcar 5 days ago | parent [-]

The location of the Big Potato is a secret of national import!

interloxia 5 days ago | parent [-]

In related news please note that the Big Potato in Robertson Australia has been painted and is now the Big Babe in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the making of Babe the movie.

https://robertson.nsw.au/bigpotato.html