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Scoutmaster
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posted May 01, 2017 11:55 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by ElToro:
There's a casino/hotel at stateline Nevada on the north Tahoe shore that the building splits the state. There's a gold stripe and silver stripe of paint in the middle of the ballroom and pool indicating what state your in. The casino is obviously on the NV side. At south shore there's a streetlight and the casinos are literally 3 feet Inside the state line, to allow for the sidewalk.


Club Cal-Neva?? (It has changed hands a few times since Frank Sinatra owned it, I understand it is now in bankruptcy).



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posted May 02, 2017 12:30 AMHide Post
Pffftt! Look at Pt. Roberts. It's two different countries (USA Washington State and Canada). That's a bar question right there!!


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posted May 02, 2017 01:09 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by Cycler:
There is a town on the Ohio-Indiana boarder, Union City with the state line running down about it's center.

What made it particularly odd was for many years the eastern half of Indiana (which is in the Eastern Time Zone) did not go on daylight savings time in the summer while Ohio did. So for about 7 months of the year, when you crossed the street, you were not only in a different state, the time was different too.


I was born in Union City on the Indiana side. We lived there until I went to kindergarten.
 
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hudr
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posted May 02, 2017 04:44 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by ibanda:
Texarkana is like this. Stateline Avenue runs right down the middle of town. About 30,000 people live on the Texas side and about 30,000 on the Arkansas side.


I've lived all my life (except a short stint in DFW) 22 miles from Texarkana. It has always intrigued me how some things appear seamless, and yet others are very different once you cross Stateline Avenue....
 
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rscalzo
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posted May 02, 2017 06:40 AMHide Post
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I was born in Union City


Funny. Union City, NJ has the yellow line down the middle of their main road as the border.


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posted May 02, 2017 11:07 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by ibanda:
Texarkana is like this. Stateline Avenue runs right down the middle of town. About 30,000 people live on the Texas side and about 30,000 on the Arkansas side.

You don't mention the Post Office though, which is built right smack on the middle stripe of Stateline. Inside the PO, you can be in TX or AR, depending on which side of the building you are standing in. Buy your stamps at the window in AR, and check your box in TX.
 
And then a few blocks further is the train station, which also strides the line.
 
 
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posted May 02, 2017 11:12 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by hudr:
I've lived all my life (except a short stint in DFW) 22 miles from Texarkana. It has always intrigued me how some things appear seamless, and yet others are very different once you cross Stateline Avenue....

I spent most of my teen years residing on the TX side (near Summerhill Rd). The TX side county is dry, the AR side is wet. Want a beer, cross the line. Worked one summer at the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, reloading 105mm cases for Vietnam. From the lot number stamp we gave them, we could tell they were being shipped over there, fired, and back to be reloaded again within 30 days.
 
 
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