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"Kentucky Trivia" -- for Cal

Started by derspiess, March 31, 2009, 01:56:44 PM

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jimmy olsen

#45
April 01, 2009, 10:45:49 PM
Hey, Cal, you should restart your map of Kentucky series here. :)
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Caliga

#46
April 02, 2009, 07:04:25 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 01, 2009, 09:55:00 PMYeah. I've long since lost it, but I had a ViewMaster with slides from Mammoth Caves. No way to replace them, either. ViewMaster's stopping production this year. :(

^_^

The point of my quote was to correct you... it's Mammoth Cave.  It's all one giant cave system.  Upon review I realize that my strikeout of your 's' was difficult to see, though.
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Caliga

#47
April 02, 2009, 07:05:16 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 01, 2009, 10:45:49 PM
Hey, Cal, you should restart your map of Kentucky series here. :)

I will once I actually go somewhere new.  I haven't done much "original" travelling lately.  At some point this summer I'm likely going out to western Kentucky to visit Kentucky Lake/Lake Barkley/LBL though. :)
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DontSayBanana

#48
April 02, 2009, 10:00:31 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 02, 2009, 07:04:25 AM

^_^

The point of my quote was to correct you... it's Mammoth Cave.  It's all one giant cave system.  Upon review I realize that my strikeout of your 's' was difficult to see, though.

Yeah. Couldn't see the strikeout. Sorry. Either way, been to Cave City, done that, opted out of the T-shirt for a plastic slide show toy. ;)
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Caliga

#49
April 03, 2009, 07:43:03 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 02, 2009, 10:00:31 PMYeah. Couldn't see the strikeout. Sorry. Either way, been to Cave City, done that, opted out of the T-shirt for a plastic slide show toy. ;)

Cave City :bleeding:

It's the very definition of a "tourist trap", complete with an ultra-lame wild west theme show.

The much cooler wild west theme park is up by Cumberland Falls, because it's abandoned and fun to explore. :cool:
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Valmy

#50
April 03, 2009, 08:11:01 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 03, 2009, 07:43:03 AM
It's the very definition of a "tourist trap", complete with an ultra-lame wild west theme show.

The much cooler wild west theme park is up by Cumberland Falls, because it's abandoned and fun to explore. :cool:

A wild west show east of the Mississippi?  Lame.

That would sort of be like having a Revolutionary War re-enactment in Arizona.
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Caliga

#51
April 03, 2009, 08:15:39 AM
Most of those parks date from the '50s and '60s when that stuff was all the rage due to Hollywood Westerns, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and the like.
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derspiess

#52
April 03, 2009, 08:32:28 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 03, 2009, 07:43:03 AM
The much cooler wild west theme park is up by Cumberland Falls, because it's abandoned and fun to explore. :cool:

:woot:  Let's go.  I love abandoned places like that.  They have a post-apocalyptic vibe to them.
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Caliga

#53
April 03, 2009, 08:34:59 AM
Quote from: derspiess on April 03, 2009, 08:32:28 AM:woot:  Let's go.  I love abandoned places like that.  They have a post-apocalyptic vibe to them.

:thumbsup:  I have a bunch of pics of it, as well as some of Creelsboro, Kentucky (ghost town downstream from Lake Cumberland).
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Ed Anger

#54
April 03, 2009, 08:35:23 AM
I may be driving my family down to Harlan county next month. I figured it was time to show my cousins down there my kids. Plus I want to see how far gone Harlan has gone in 10 years. I've heard the downtown area is pawn hop city and the old businesses are gone.
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Caliga

#55
April 03, 2009, 08:37:10 AM
Here's a pic of Tombstone junction I have on my photobucket account:

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Caliga

#56
April 03, 2009, 08:37:55 AM
Creelsboro:

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charliebear

#57
April 03, 2009, 09:53:19 AM
I lived in Lexington for a short time back in the day.  I remember being surprised at the lack of a substantial middle class.  One was either dirt poor or very well off.

Caliga

#58
April 03, 2009, 09:54:19 AM
I don't believe it's that way these days... but Lexington has a very small suburban skirt, and immediately outside of that the people are indeed dirt-poor hillbillies.
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charliebear

#59
April 03, 2009, 09:59:21 AM
I also remember it being a beautiful place in the spring.
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