Yeah, I'm not surprised. That stuff was so cool. When I was a little mug we used to take a family vacation once a year and where we went was basically down the path of old Route 66 into the Ozarks. There were so many tourist traps and shit all up and down that road and I wanted to stop at every one of them.
Sometimes I was placated, but other times I was told to shut the fuck up, lol which was most likely appropriate.
Americana is all pretty cool to me. Even though those big ass sculptures were probably made of blown asbestos onto wire frames and painted with lead base it didn't matter back then. I needed to experience it.
I still get bummed when they wreck old places that I had a fondness for but that is unfortunately the territory we tread as we age. Out with the old and in with the new is a fact of life.