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Article: MAP POINTS OUT HYSTERICAL MARKERS IN CALIFORNIA.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 29, 1997
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Chances are the next time you're driving through California, your road map won't point out that you're near:
-- Charles Manson's hideout after the Tate-La Bianca murders.
-- The Barbie Hall of Fame.
-- The home of ``Zeke the Sheik'' and his 30-foot manure sculpture, which Zeke claims is a work of art comparable to the founding of the United States.
But motorists who have a taste for such trivia no longer need be in the dark. Rose Ness and her husband, Franklin Ohlinger, have published ``Eccentric California: Map to the Bizarre and Peculiar,'' a guide to the above spots and more than 500 others of similarly dubious importance.
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