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Little America, the truck stop empire
1934
Little America, Wyoming
A sheepherder caught overnight in a blizzard here in the 1890s swore that if he ever owned the spot he would build a shelter on it. In 1934 he did, naming it for Admiral Byrd's Antarctic base and adopting a penguin mascot for the loneliness. Little America grew into a 55-pump oasis with its own zip code and hundreds of billboards, selling fifty-cent ice cream cones that are the I-80 driver's rite of passage. The empire it spawned runs hotels across the West.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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