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Pro tip: that rusted out Dairy Queen sign off Route 9 in Poughkeepsie is worth the stop
I pulled over last Friday just to grab one photo of the cracked sign and ended up spending 40 minutes walking the whole lot, finding the old menu board still listing a 39 cent sundae and a freezer room with 1980s inspection stickers on the wall, so what random roadside spot did you almost drive past before it got torn down?
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the_vera7d ago
That Dairy Queen lot sounds cool but I gotta disagree on it being worth a stop. Half the fun of these old spots is that nobody's turned them into a photo op yet. Once a place gets posted about, you get ten cars parked there on a Saturday and the vibe is gone. There was an old drive-in theater screen out near Kingston I used to pass every week, just a blank white wall in a field with weeds up to the bumper. Told myself I'd stop sometime. Next thing I know it's a solar panel farm and the screen is in pieces. So yeah, grab the pic, but maybe don't tell the whole internet where it is.
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