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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

They must have really like been pretty pleased with themselves when they decided to call it Tom Thumb Golf because it really it checked all the boxes.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, and we should mention too, we keep saying Rock City, and if you're not from the southeast, you might think it's just some like redneck area with a bunch of rocks.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It's actually a very sweet, natural wonder.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It's caves that you walk through.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Caves, it's huge boulders being held up by much, much smaller boulders.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

That have been that way for probably tens of thousands of years that you walk under.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

There's like, yeah, there's little cave areas that you kind of duck into and they have little fairy tale scenes with fluorescent, yeah, I guess kind of day glow.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It's like glow in the dark.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

weird like gnomes in fairy tale scenes like that's the weird part it's like if Carlsbad Caverns had you know some corny fairy theme and then Ruby Falls is really neat too yeah

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It's a very cool, like, natural attraction that they've done a good job of, like, making it easy to make your way to.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

But, yeah, the whole thing is definitely worth going to.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And then, of course, they have the very famous, like, Sea Rock City barn sides that everybody's heard of.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And that was Garnet Carter who painted one man or paid one man to go around and offer to give a fresh coat of paint to barns all throughout the southeast.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

That's great.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

In exchange for letting them paint Sea Rock City on the side.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, if you've ever driven around the North Carolina, South Carolina area and south of the border, you know what I'm talking about?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Mm-hmm.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

South of the Mason-Dixon line?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

No, south of the border is the name of this sort of highway tourist trap.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Oh, no, I haven't heard of that.