The Dixie Highway that meandered through Polk County in the early 20th century inspired the creation of lots of roadside attractions along its path.
Most are gone now, but their memories are kept alive at the Polk County History Center in Bartow, where WUSF's' Robin Sussingham spoke with curator Maria Trippe about Polk's "Lost Roadside Attractions."
The exhibition highlights the weird and wonderful, such as a giant mountain of sand in Fort Meade that hosted ski competitions, or a huge wooly mammoth fighting a saber-tooth tiger at a phosphate museum in Bartow.
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