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When we made the program titled THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD SHOW here at WQED back in 1992, we included a visit to the Shoe House in York, PA, as well as a stop at the Ship Hotel on Route 30 near Bedford. The crew and I learned that lots of people shared our love for big goofy buildings in unusual shapes.
The Ship Hotel isn’t there anymore. When we started doing national programs for PBS, we went to see Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey, just south of Atlantic City. She is in our 1996 program titled SHORE THINGS.
The crew poses in front of the Coney So I knew a bit how people felt about these grand and goofy places. When I found out that PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting might be interested in a program that focused on such unusual structures, I started collecting information, doing research, talking to everybody, reading everything I could find.
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Hard to say.
Also in 1996, we sampled the soft serve at the cone-shaped Dairy Dome in Panama City, Florida, that we just happened to see as we were driving past on our way to the beaches along the Gulf. 
Then in 1998, for our documentary called A 
