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| May 25th, 2009 11:13 PM | ||
| Dixie | that place looks incredible. | |
| May 25th, 2009 04:00 PM | ||
| Kitsa |
I have been to the Gobbler. I touched the lava rock. It was awesome. See above for details. |
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| Mar 26th, 2009 11:50 PM | ||
| Chojin |
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| Mar 26th, 2009 06:36 PM | ||
| Supafly345 | I LOVE 60's architecture. I hear there is a hotel in disneyworld that is comepletely unchanged since its erection, and if I ever have a family to take on vacation, it will be there. | |
| Mar 25th, 2009 09:40 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
He worked for a "biological supply company". He prepared specimens for dissection. The company bought frozen euthanized cats from the various Animal Control organizations for $2/ea, prepped them, and sold them to schools for much more. I didn't like it, but I took comfort in the fact that at least he wasn't the one euthanizing the animals, and he was somewhat respectful (didn't hold them up and improvise Meow Mix tableaux with them as some of his coworkers did). His job was to skin the cats because, naturally, it's easier to distance yourself when it doesn't look like Mittens or Fluffy back home. Then, because even biology students don't want to have to deal with the wormy feces of strays, he would have to stick a hose up their asses and flush them clean. When one of my cats walks across the DVR and knocks the cable loose, his threats have a little extra bite. He also prepared skinned mink (fur goes to coats, body goes to dissection labs), rats, pigeons, various livestock parts, mudpuppies, frogs and earthworms. He had to inject the vascular systems with blue and red latex, but never built up the skill because he's colorblind. He had to sign a paper when he was hired that said he would never submit anything to "Dirty Jobs". |
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| Mar 25th, 2009 09:32 AM | ||
| Evil Robot | Wait, why did he skin then and flush thier bowels? Did these cats do something wrong? | |
| Mar 25th, 2009 07:17 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
Yeah, he heard that one a lot. He also had to give enemas to dead frozen cats. He saw a lot of bad shit. Edit: if the restaurant is there, I didn't see it. Yes, they do seem to imply that something is there. Maybe it's under different management? The only remarkably tacky thing I know of in the area is some giant dinner theatre across from the cat-skinning place. |
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| Mar 25th, 2009 04:51 AM | ||
| executioneer | better go ask mr. owl | |
| Mar 25th, 2009 03:33 AM | ||
| Tadao |
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| Mar 25th, 2009 03:28 AM | ||
| Big McLargehuge |
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| Mar 25th, 2009 02:09 AM | ||
| kidneyboy |
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so is the restaurant gone as well? i saw the article in the Madison paper about a turkey dinner there last year, even though the place was closed. |
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| Mar 24th, 2009 09:12 PM | ||
| Otto | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina used to have a lot of old mom and pop hotels, nothing really kitschy like the Gobbler, though. Ever since they closed down the Pavillion amusement park they've been tearing down all of the old hotels, which have become seedy deathtraps where people usually get their throats cut. | |
| Mar 24th, 2009 08:18 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
It's mainly a blank field. If you're standing in an empty field on a concrete slab and you can see the Johnson Creek water tower, you're there. Just a warning, the police patrol the place regularly due to shag-looters. Edit: if you're that close, you could go past where my boyfriend used to work skinning dead cats! |
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| Mar 24th, 2009 01:48 AM | ||
| kidneyboy |
Will be driving past it next week, on my way to Milwaukee. Going to see the Titanic exhibit. You know my heart will go on. Hopefully I can stop and look around, see what's there. |
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| Mar 11th, 2009 04:03 AM | ||
| pac-man | Oh, well they would drink beer that dogs have swam in. | |
| Mar 11th, 2009 03:57 AM | ||
| 10,000 Volt Ghost | Pretty sure that's what it was called but I've only ever seen it in Canada. | |
| Mar 10th, 2009 10:58 PM | ||
| pac-man |
 They really make this stuff? |
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| Mar 10th, 2009 10:37 PM | ||
| 10,000 Volt Ghost |
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Me and my ex ex girlfriend got a Heart Shaped Jacuzzi one year when we went to Niagara Falls. It was not grimey but it wasn't the cleanest. After a bunch of red tick beer I remember caring less. |
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| Mar 9th, 2009 05:39 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
I barely...barely...remember hotels in certain tourist traps that were vaguely like The Gobbler, although nowhere near as incredibly Gobbler-y. There was one in Niagara Falls that had windows in the walls of the swimming pool. You walked past the hotel at street level and you could look in and see the swimmers' legs and butts. Sometimes that was a good thing but usually not. The bf used to live near Wisconsin Dells and we went through a couple of years of trying out all the kitschy theme stuff when we were in town. The little cinderblock motels with the giant pink fiberglass elephants in the pool might have been just the thing in the 50s, 60s and 70s, but they're quite shitty and run down these days. We stayed in one that had a 1-inch gap under the room door and we could hear everything going on in the next room. Also, it was filthy. The worst was a medieval castle-themed "resort". It was around $100 a night, and they gave you a free roll of quarters and shuttle to the local reservation casino. You'd go up the drive to this big floodlit castle only to see that it was a crumbling, stuccoed facade that only housed the front office. It concealed the fact that the real "hotel" was a run-down little building in the back. We had to step over rolls of dirty torn-up carpeting and piles of laundry to get to our room. It was a "jacuzzi suite", according to the front desk, but all that meant was that there was a large bathtub in the middle of the room that shot someone's black hair out the jets when it was turned on. Felt like being in The Grudge. We skipped the jacuzzi. There was some of the shag carpeting plastic-fantastic aura, but there were big holes in the sheets and the whole room was lit with eerie green fluorescent light that only enhanced the whole horror movie vibe. When the AC was on, the curtain blew inwards and everyone in the parking lot could see into the room. The icing on the cake was when we were in the room with the door locked (supposedly) and some random woman on her cellphone walked right in before realizing she was in the wrong place. It would have been great if they'd maintained the kitsch and...oh, I don't know...cleaned, but as it was the place was filthy, uncomfortable and gross. Eventually it was sold to a national chain, who turned it into a generic hotel, and I hear it's much better now. |
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| Mar 8th, 2009 11:39 PM | ||
| pac-man |
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| Mar 8th, 2009 02:35 PM | ||
| Tadao |
I would do all my Cougar hunting there. If I was 20 again 
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| Mar 8th, 2009 02:27 PM | ||
| Kitsa |
The unlikely artificial-grape purple of the dining room is just so damn fabulous that I can hardly stand it. http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/roost/5.html And turkeys on the carpet. A rotating bar. Petrified wood walls. |
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| Mar 8th, 2009 02:04 PM | ||
| 10,000 Volt Ghost | I'm not going to lie. I would totally stay there for at least 2 nights. Reminds me of the motel they stayed in "A Goofy Movie" on their way to the power line concert. | |
| Mar 8th, 2009 12:43 PM | ||
| Kitsa |
How can you not love the "passion pit": and the "bridal suite"?   http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/roost/4.html "If you’re ever wondering what the War Room of “Dr. Strangelove” would look like if the movie had been directed by Prince, here you go. "
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| Mar 8th, 2009 12:35 PM | ||
| Evil Robot | When I was a land surveyor I noticed that archetecture evolved along with the rise in the popularity of cocaine. It turns out that I was right, I had heared other people talking about the "coke era homes" of the 70's and early 80's when engineers found that they could not only afford to do coke, but it made them more productive. They were also the first buildings to have siding applied diagonally. | |
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