Day 3, February 15 2018
NORTH CAROLINA
MOUNT AIRY, NC
Hillbilly Bake Shop and Ice cream and Creamery
153 N Main St, Mount Airy, NC
MOUNT AIRY, NC
What could be more wholesome than milk in the land of Mayberry?
594 N Andy Griffith Pkwy, Mount Airy, NC
KING, NC
Giant Milk Shake
365 E Dalton Rd., King, NC
WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Some times we are so busy finding interesting BIG THINGS (like this Coffee Pot) that we forget to check out other attractions. I feel we missed out in quaint, historical Winston-Salem. It was too early for anything to be open, but it looked like it was a good place to spend a couple of hours.
408 S Main St, Winston-Salem, NC
WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Where’s the BEEF! Looks like it’s up a pole!
653 Waughtown St., Winston-Salem, NC
WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Charming, vintage gas station shaped like a shell. I think I’m pretty safe assuming it was a Shell station.
1111 E Sprague St., Winston-Salem, NC
JAMESTOWN, NC
*WL WORLD’S LARGEST HIGHBOY DRESSER
Amazing facade for Furnitureland South. At eighty feet tall, it is one HUGE dresser!
5635 Riverdale Dr, Jamestown, NC
HIGH POINT, NC
*WL WORLD’S LARGEST DRESSER
Oddly placed on a residential street, this piece is a big as a house! Billed as the WORLD’S LARGEST DRESSER. It apparently gets new socks on a regular basis – don’t know if they are the world’s largest, though.
508 North Hamilton St., High Point, NC
HIGH POINT, NC
Bike has seen better days, but it is BIG.
2000 N Main St, High Point, NC
THOMASVILLE, NC
*WL WORLD’S LARGEST DUNCAN PHYFE CHAIR
Nice lyre or harp back chair. Billed as the World’s Largest Chair, but let’s be real – I’ve seen bigger. I’m willing to let it be the world’s largest Duncan Phyfe Chair, though.
6 W Main St, Thomasville, NC
LINWOOD, NC
Bill’s Truck Stop. Large prospector or hillbilly waves to motorists on the highway.
1210 Snider Kines Rd, Linwood, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
Charlotte Panthers Stadium
800 S Mint St, Charlotte, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
I don’t know if this is larger than life, because for the life of me I don’t know what it is! It’s affectionately referred to as Disco Chicken.
420 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
So these are along the lines of See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil. Right? These are in a parkette with several sculptures that (which?) incorporate the instruments of writing — typewriter keys, quill pen, stacks of books — as a tribute to a local newspaper publisher (According to Roadside America)
Big stubby pensil
Giant typewriter keys
A stack of famous quotes
A legend in my own mind!!!
300 East 7th St, Charlotte, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
Interesting sculptures on the four corners of Independence Square at Trade and Tyrone, representing Commerce, Transportation, Industry and The Future.
Corner of Trade and Tyrone, Charlotte, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
Lovely koi.
parkette across from Charlotte Convention Center – 501 S College St., Charlotte, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
Stacked books.
parkette across from Charlotte Convention Center – 501 S College St., Charlotte, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC
This is AMAZING. The silvery head is made up of 40 slices that rotate more or less randomly, and form a perfect head every hour or so. Called Metamorphosis, it is located in a technology park.
3700 Arco Corporate Dr., Charlotte, NC
Carl with BIG THINGS 