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Falling by the Wayside 2011

No. 1: Airplane Filling Station 6829-6899 Clinton Highway Knoxville, TN37921 United States   Located on the side of the busy Clinton Highway, northeast of Knoxville, the Airplane Filling Station catches the eye of passing motorists. Elmer and Henry Nickle built the plane-shaped gas station in 1930 along the newly widened U.S. 25 (Dixie Highway) with…

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Falling by the Wayside 2010

No. 1: Buckhorn Baths 5964 East Main Street Mesa, AZ United States Buckhorn Baths, a ten-acre oasis of palms, gardens and Spanish bungalows, sits along Mesa’s busy Main Street, a reminder of the town’s former life as a desert resort community. Closed for over a decade, future restoration and reuse of the property is growing…