Dartmouth Roadside Attractions
I’m always searching for items of interest with regard to the Dartmouth area. The old locks at Sullivan’s Pond, the Cow Bay moose and Alderney Landing immediately come to mind but there are a great many more. But I’m always interested in what others from away think are the the major attractions and I found an interesting site that mentions some more that, while a novelty, are not in the league with say, the statue of Terry Fox in Thunder Bay.
Then it suddenly came to me. Attractions do not have to be profound or stand for an amazing feat of courage, as in the case of Terry Fox. If you follow the history of Route 66 in the U.S. you’ll run into a cornucopia of differing items such as figures built from engine parts, shrines to Elvis, a half-buried cars, museums of everything and rusting Edsels.
Question: Do people stop at historical sites? Some do. But most of us want to see the unusual and, in some cases, buy the T-shirt to prove we’ve seen it because even we know that bumper-stickers are passé.
So what do others across Canada think is important enough to photograph in Dartmouth? These things:
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