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Tourists. Why, if it wasn ' t for tourists, Boone just wouldn ' t be the same. Just think about it. Where we now have a Pizza Hut and a Hardee ' s and a Holly Farm ' s, we ' d have vacant lots. If it wasn ' t for tourists, we ' d probably still be watching all the first-run movies for 75 cents at the Appalachian Theatre. And the four-lane past the shopping center would probably be two and the shopping center wouldn ' t be at all. Where we have dirty scars that used to be mountainsides, we ' d have trees and flowers. Just think about it. No more roadside stands filled with cheap pottery and crummy quilts. No more traffic jams when the leaves turn. No more. And wouldn ' t it be nice. Or would it? Come to think of it, if it wasn ' t for the tourists, there might not be much of a town at all. And ASU might still be Appalachian State Normal School. And you and I might not even be here. So, like it or not, we do have a Pizza Hut and a Hardee ' s and a Holly Farm ' s and three high-priced movie theatres and a four-lane and a shopping center and all the rest. JF!Sf«£f? fe: yfcSfS
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And, like it or not, they are all here to stay and so are the tourists, and we are going to have to continue to live together. Granted, that is not always an easy task. It is rather hard to feel a kinship with the gentleman who always seems to drive his car in the wrong lane and always seems to have orange and white license plates that always seem to say Florida. But no one in his right mind ever told you that life was easy and tourists will just have to be one of the rough spots. Anyway, tourism is not all bad. Those same people who brought you condominiums and muddy mountainsides also brought you ski slopes. And, by the same token, for every greasy burger sold there ' s usually an ASU student with a part-time job back in the kitchen. So when it ' s all said and done there isn ' t really a flat statement to be made about tourists. Except one. They ' re people, People just like the rest of us. And, since they ' re people, they ' re inclined to be a little strange. And maybe even a little obnoxious. At any rate, they did help to make Boone what it is today. And, like the sign says, Everybody likes Boone. T EETS3 18 Tourists
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