Clown Motel, 521 North Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada. Yes, it's a motel with a clown theme. Apparently there are clowns on the doors, shelves of clown dolls and collectibles in the lobby, clown paintings on the walls of the rooms. The Clown Motel stands right next to Tonopah's cemetery, closed for a hundred years, packed with the graves of miners in this former Boom Town.

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Chief Motel, 303 East Legion Avenue, Whitehall, Montana. "Me Like Um"! Wow, this sign is not very PC.

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A ghost sign advertising "The Better Butter", uncovered on a building undergoing renovations in San Francisco, California.

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Walnut Canyon Bridge, Winona, Arizona. In 1922, the United States Bureau of Public Roads undertook a 23-mile road-building project along the Winslow Highway that stretched between Flagstaff and Angel through the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. The largest structure built as part of the project was the Walnut Canyon Bridge, which spans the canyon crossing Walnut Creek one mile northwest of Winona. Soon after completion in 1924, the road and the bridge became part of Route 66.

The bridge employs a straightforward design. It has a single span of 101 feet and a 19-foot-wide roadbed. The superstructure is of riveted steel and uses a five-panel Parker through truss. Truss bridges have a combination of members, usually arranged in a triangular configuration, to form a rigid framework. A Parker truss includes an additional element: an upper polygonal chord. The substructure has concrete abutments and wing walls. The floor is a concrete deck over steel stringers. The bridge has steel lattice guardrails with concrete curbs. The design and materials were efficient.

While the Walnut Canyon Bridge represents common construction of its time, it is now a rare surviving example on Route 66. The bridge is closed to traffic, but remains intact on a short stretch of abandoned roadbed. The National Park Service listed the Walnut Canyon Bridge in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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Fremont Theater, 1025 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California. The Fremont Theater is among the last remaining Streamline Moderne theaters built by architect S. Charles Lee. It opened in 1942, and throughout its early years it served both as a moving pictures theater and a live theater. It hosted war bond shows in early years and later hosted such live music attractions as Adam Ant and Yes. In recent years three more screens have been added in an adjacent building, making this a four-plex. The theater is now one of the main locations for the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

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