Apr 13th, 2017: Bottle-Cap Alley

[xoxoxoBruce]

The IOtD I did on street signs showed that people can creative and pretty off the wall when it comes to
creating names for the highways and byways. I've seen some crazy ones on alleys and paths too.
Quite often there's a name on deeds and official maps, then there's a name everybody calls it. Americans
are so contrary.
But when I saw the name Bottle-Cap Alley I didn't miss a beat, it didn't seem odd... till I saw the picture.



That alley is big enough to drive through, but your new tires would come out with recapped.

For years, boozers from the Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and elsewhere, have been
paving a short alley located between the pub Dry Bean and the restaurant Dixie Chicken, with used
bottle caps. The alley, about 50 meters long and 2 meters across, is today filled with hundreds of
thousands of weathered metal bottle caps. It’s a curious little attraction.

Rusty steel, if they were aluminum somebody would have scooped them up and sold them.

The alley periodically receives “donation”, in the form of bottle caps, from the surrounding bars and
individuals who collect them for the purpose.

The Bottlecap Alley is located at the north edge of the Texas A&M campus. The Alley entrance is on the
north side of Hwy 60/University Drive, midway between College Main and Boyett St.

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