Potential Penny Locations that I missed…. or preceded… or something
Damn my lack of research when traveling…
I’ve missed stopping in these exciting tourist locations to get pennies squished!! (according to PennyCollector.com) Apparently There are even TWO in FREAKING BRISTOL… perhaps I should visit my mother…
Bristol Motor Speedway … you can hear this place fom my mom’s house
Bristol, Tennessee
Birthplace of Country Music Alliance – BCMA — oooh, on the Virginia side
Bristol, Virginia
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Busch Gardens – Visited with Sis and Frewtnut niece at about 15
Williamsburg, Virginia
Tennessee Aquarium/IMAX Center — Hello?!? How many times have I been here?
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Museum – Oh, we only went to Gatlinburg every weekend of the summer as a kid…
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Lost Sea – drove by this 80 million times back and forth to college, finally stopped.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Knoxville Zoo – At least 5 school field trips here, and mom and dad used to take us, too.
Knoxville, Tennessee
American Museum of Science & Energy – The damn Duro office was RIGHT THERE… I bet James went.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Hanauma Bay Gift Shop – This Bay is where I went snorkelling for the first time!
Oahu – Honolulu, Hawaii
Mexicoach Bus Terminal – Only one in Tijuanna, and since I’ve been thee twice, you’d think I’d look for this.
Tijuana, Mexico
Dolphin Encounters – The first time I went I didn’t have the money to do anything — at 21, when James and I went back in 2005, he wasn’t intereted in this tip… boo…
Nassau, Bahamas
Beech Mountain Ski Resort – Again, this was a pretty regular teenage wintertime hangout
Banner Elk, North Carolina
Tweetsie Railroad – I have a million pictures and a toy rubber band gun from here though…
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Ghost Town In The Sky – I know we visitied here at least once, then drove by it (and Twitty City) a million times with the kids asking, Can we go again? I don’t think Mom liked it…
Maggie Valley, North Carolina
Smoky Mountain Gold and Ruby Mine — I’ve stopped to pan fo gold twice in my life at a touristy spot — this is one.
Cherokee, North Carolina
Captain Hook’s Adventure Golf – I think this is the joint we played at with Marc & Jennie a few years ago that had the most annoying pirate song in the world!
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Charleston Visitor Center — Seriously? I went in here to ask for directions to Market Street.
Charleston, South Carolina
Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum – Visited at about 12 and again at 20, and didn’t see one either time.
Washington, DC
Key West Aquarium – Man! If I’d known! We posed for stupid pictures with “The Creepy Captain Statue” outside this place!
Key West, Florida
SeaWorld – One visit here, at about 16 with sis and frewtnut niece.
Orlando, Florida
Universal Studios – James and I just went here like 3 years ago at Thanksgiving
Orlando, Florida
Ponce de Leon Fountain of Youth – Another frequent childhood vacation stop
St. Augustine, Florida
The Jacksonville Landing – We all went down hee to have dinner when they just opened or reopoened or something — I was 21! Brother JC lives in JAX
Jacksonville, Florida
Edison & Ford Winter Estates – Brother Wayne used to live in Ft. Myers, and mom has a cool print we bought when we visited this place… but no pennies…
Ft. Myers, Floida
Grand Canyon National Park – Saw it at 19 on our crazy drive in the desert vacation
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Las Vegas Hilton-Star Trek Experience – THIS is where we feaking stayed last spring!! How did I miss THIS one?
Las Vegas, Nevada
California Welcome Center – We walked all over Oceanside until mom’s feet gave out, Feb 2006, and I never found a machine…
Oceanside, California
Balboa Park Visitors Center – Have lots of pictures fom the 2005 visit, but no pennies
San Diego, California
Miller Park Zoo — I was just surprised to find one near my work trip destination. Have to go back 2nd week of May, maybe I’ll hunt this down…
Bloomington, Illinois
Six Flags Fiesta Texas – Another work trip, we stayed at a hotel right by this, and I begged fo a half-day to go…
San Antonio, Texas
National Corvette Museum – James and Pete just drove right by here on their fireworks trip — and it’s my new “next place” to visit…
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Greyhound Bus Station – Seriously? The scenic bus station…
Birmingham, Alabama
U.S. Space & Rocket Center – Driven past about a million times on the trip from Chattanooga to Sis’, but never stopped.
Huntsville, Alabama
Dahlonega General Store – How did we miss a machine?!?
Dahlonega, Georgia
Rock City Gardens – Been there 3-4 times, guess I should go back.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
River Street Sweets – Only been to Savannah once, about 8 years ago for a drunken St. Patrick’s day weekend with Kit
Savannah, Georgia
MANY MANY supposedly exist around Atlanta, which I need to hunt down, espeically this one:
Stone Mountain Park
Stone Mountain, Georiga
rskipwo has made a Comment
I love these things! Do you have a decent collection?
April 23, 2008 @ 3:33 am
flerly has made a Comment
I have 30 right now in my recently purchased souvenir coin album. Maggie & I found it at the Atlanta Zoo, so now I have a place to keep them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a machine and walked passed it, as I have lots of memories of begging people for money to make these things. If I missed all these ones at places I’ve been, then I don’t think the machines were there yet, since I have several over the years from machines that the list says are now gone… like the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii and even one from 6 flags Georgia that’s now gone.
I managed to get a ton from my visit to Hollywood at 19, I’ve got Dollywood and the Chattanooga Choo Choo and the Incline Railway from local trip, then I’ve done pretty well at finding at least one on our big trips lately – New York New York Casino, several from San Francisco, San Diego, even one from Bermuda and a couple from Charleston.
It’s the location of these machines that kills me though. I told James we HAVE to stop by the bus station next time we go through Birmingham on the way to my sis’ house — he’s like THE BUS STATION!?!? Yeah.
April 23, 2008 @ 10:29 am
randomrants has made a Comment
I collect postcards 😉
It started with just me picking them up at the places I went, but it eventually expanded to others. I simply ask for folks to sign and date it, if they do manage to find me one (or, usually, REMEMBER to find me one).
Is there any particular rhyme or reason to the places you get pennies squished? or just “there’s a squishing machine, must go squish”?
If there’s no particular rhyme or reason, and you don’t mind them from places you haven’t actually been, I could put the word out to some pals in various parts of the nation to have them keep an eye out for penny squishers, and maybe get you some from places you may not have been…
April 23, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
flerly has made a Comment
Pretty much it’s OH! SQUISHING MACHINE! *dig through purse for change* — Never had anybody get ones for me, but hey that could be fun!!
April 23, 2008 @ 4:21 pm