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Cherry Goes Nuts - Summer Fun Retro Vacation Travel Roadside Attraction Road Trip Tour

Miss Cherry Capri goes on another fun retro vacation travel roadside attraction road trip tour and visits Alamogordo, New Mexico to see the World's Largest Pistachio Nut in front of McGinn's Pistachio Tree Ranch near White Sands National Monument and ends up at the home of America's Park Ride Train Museum...

The 30 ft. high pistachio is on Highway 54 between Alamogordo and Tularosa NM. This sculpture was built by Bar M Construction and contains 5 yards of concrete and is covered by about 35 gallons of paint. A plaque at the base honors the founder of Tree Farm, the late Tom McGinn, who loved visiting roadside attractions or Americana, as he called it. There's a gift shop with an animatronic old western cowboy.

Also featured is the Alamogordo Toy Train Depot and Museum which is New Mexico's first railroad museum, open year round and is located at the North end of Alameda Park on White Sands Blvd. The depot structure itself served as a full size train depot in Corona, New Mexico until 1974 when it was moved to Alamogordo. Now over 100 years old it serves riders of a relaxing two and a half mile miniature train route and houses a fun and interesting train museum. The Alameda Park narrow gauge railway runs a replica F7 Diesel Baltimore and Ohio train on 16 track.

P.S.
Thank you to wmm095 on fiverr.com for the awesome pistachio nut stop frame animation!

P.P.S.
Cherry chooses Santa Barbara Pistachio Company RAW Organic Pistachios for her road trips!

Come on boys and girls... Go out on a Retro Road Trip and see the fun kitschy Americana sights and those larger than life giant object roadside attraction landmarks of Vintage Vacation Roadside America! Go visit some cool architecture today!






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