Tourist trap
- Frango Assado at São Paulo, Brazil
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These kinds of attractions find their way into popular culture. A few examples, in addition to the Charles Ogden book and the horror film mentioned elsewhere on this page:
- In an episode of I Love Lucy, in which the four main players are driving to California, they see a sign advertising a Praline Pecans shop hundreds of miles away. As they approach its location, the signs appear with greater frequency, and their interest grows, only to learn that the store is out of business.
- An episode of Kojak titled "Tourist Trap" is about a crime boss conducting an illegal immigration scheme, to provide workers for businesses he owns.
- In the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation, Ellen Griswold ridicules her husband, Clark, for being distracted trying to find attractions such as "the world's largest ball of twine" on their way to their actual destination, the fictional amusement park called "Wally World".
- The Adventure Game Sam and Max Hit the Road largely takes place at a series of tourist traps across the United States.
- In the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, tourist traps are hypothesized to be built in areas of great spiritual energy in America, much like shrines or stone monoliths might mark such spots in other parts of the world.
- Folk act Bright Eyes has a song called Tourist Trap on their 2007 Four Winds EP.
- In Michael (1996 film) the archangel Michael insists in stopping at several tourist traps.
- In House of 1000 Corpses The group of young victims stop at Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, a tourist trap and gas station.
- In the graphic novel The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning, the mutants refer to their deal with gas station employees, who trick people into going into the mutants' domain where they are cannibalized, as a "tourist trap". [13]
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References
- ^ Gaines, Barbara K. (May 31, 1986). Idiomatic American English: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Learning Everyday American Expressions. Kodansha International, 85. 0870117564.
- ^ a b Da Yoopers Tourist Trap & Museum (Web). Ishpeming, Michigan, Business web site. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ WallDrug.com (web). The Wall Drug Store got its start during the Depression years by offering Free Ice Water to thirsty travelers (2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
- ^ Cameron, Ralph Henry, (1863 -1953); Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck: “Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years, Page 265, University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8061-3155-1
- ^ Ribokas, Bob (Copyright © Bob Ribokas, 1994-2001). Cameron, Ralph on Grand Canyon Explorer (Web). Grand Canyon Explorer. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ Canyon Trail Rides “The Only Ride in the National Parks” (Web). Howdy Partner Come Ride With Us. Local Matters, Inc. (© Copyrighted 1997/98). Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ The Eternal Tree House in Redcrest on the Redwood Highway (Web). TUNNELTREE and CALIFPOSTCARD Home Pages (© 2003). Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ Drive thru "The Stump" at the Redwood Shop near Pepperwood, Calif (Web). TUNNELTREE and CALIFPOSTCARD Home Pages (© 2003). Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ The TOURIST TRAP (Web). Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Business web site (©Copyright 2003 - The Tiurist Trap). Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ Trees of Mystery (Web). Klamath, California, Business web site. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ Dutton, Michael (Jan 13, 1999). Streetlife China (Cambridge Modern China Series). 0521637198: Cambridge University Press, 232. 0521637198.
- ^ The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning
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