The Petrified Creatures Museum!

So...the PCM. Where to begin. Well, when I was a little kid, my Dad used to drive down Rte 20 to get from his house to my mom's, so we used to take this drive all the time. And we'd see all these little places by the side of the road, and sometimes stop and see some crazy shit (like the diner that literally had an outhouse). But for some crazy reason, we never stopped at the Petrified Creatures Museum, despite the fact that you could see giant, painted fiberglass dinosaurs in there. I always wanted to go, but had never gotten a road trip together. Then last year, my Dad is like:
So we're visiting one of my former students in Cooperstown, and I ask her if she's ever been the Petrified Creatures Museum, since it's right down the road. She says "No, but there's a funny story about that. I was in the Denver airport, and there's this sign listing all the major tourist attractions of the U.S. I decide to look near my hometown, and I don't see the baseball hall of fame, but, lo and behold, the Petrified Creatures Museum is on there!"
So they went, and said it was AMAZING.
I refused to see their photos, and vowed to go myself before I move out of upstate NY. It looks like we got there right in time, cause there was a for sale sign on it, so I think it's not long for this world.
I don't think Kenny was as into it, but I paid his admission ($8 each, and somehow they're still selling the place), so he can shove it.







When you pressed the button, you got a 10 minute long explanation of the entire Cretaeceus period recorded in 1988


Hehe...anal tube


Hehe...petrified wood


Kenny Luuuvs the Dinosaur. Loves him
(and that is wrong)


Is Kenny sticking his head up that dinosaur's butt? I mean, I know he loves them and all....


If the educational poster copyrighted 1990 that Kenny swears was in his bedroom as a child didn't tip you off that the place hasn't been revised in a while (and that whatever State of New York committee that decided it was suitable for a charter as a "Museum of Science and Nature" hasn't reviewed it in a while) this should. I'm not sure when they realized this, but the Brontosaurus isn't a real dinosaur. Someone put one dinosaur's head on another dinosaur's fossil body and called it a Brontosaurus. It would be like if in 35 more million years, they say they've found a catdog by putting a cat's head on a poodle body. And now you've had your nerd quota for the day.


Yeeeaaah


This is "Tyrone, the Tyrannasaurus." When you pushed this button, you heard a guy growling, "I'm Tyrone, I like MEEEEAAAAT. You're lucky my back hurts today or I would eeeat yooouu uppp"


He's "Under Restoration" Apparently his back hurting was no laughing matter




They gave us tools to dig for fossils

I got some awesome ones


On the way home we got sliightly lost in upstate NY, cause I decided to take a detour to try to take Kenny to Brooke's Barbecue. I thought it was in Cooperstown, apparently it's in Oneonta. Which we later found out is right next to Cooperstown. Right after we gave up. Oh well. I realllly wanted to go to Banana Dan's though. I mean...wouldn't you, after this sign? But when we got there, it had, somehow, gone out of business. Fuckers.