While looking for info about Dinosaur World (a place we visited sometime around 1970, I came across The Arkansas Roadside Travelogue, a website devoted to odd and interesting things the author has found in his travels around the Land of Opportunity. For example:
- Little Rock's Ray Winder Field, for 70 years home to the Arkansas Travelers of the Texas League, (and my all-time favorite minor-league ballpark).
- Monte Ne, once a resort southeast of Rogers founded by radical Progressive William "Coin" Harvey. In its heyday, Venetian gondolas ferried guests across a lagoon from the train station to the lodge.
- Possible explanations for the name Toad Suck Ferry.
- A place near Lepanto in northeastern Arkansas where two rivers cross.
- What really happened when Keith Richards was pulled over in Fordyce, Arkansas.
It's a fun site to explore, in the same vein (although not as thorough or focused) as Kevin Walsh's Forgotten NY.
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Mr. Bates,
I had an idea, just one of those off-the-wall ideas that oftimes hit you, that would not leave me alone. So here it is: What if we renamed one of Tulsa's major streets after Paul Ray Smith? Your first reaction will be to ask "Who?" Then you will do a Google search, after that, please answer my question: Why doesn't the City of Tulsa name a street after Paul Ray Smith ?
Posted by billy | September 2, 2006 9:40 PM
Posted on September 2, 2006 21:40