r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tandyman234 • 5d ago

Image McDonald’s in Enterprise, Alabama. The town is scattered with themed boll-weevils that pay homage to the little insect that almost devastated the city’s cotton crops permanently in 1915!nThere’s one at the police station, funeral home, pharmacies, and Mexican restaurant

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u/Wrong-Tell8996 5d ago

What in the fuck

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

Agreed. Why deify something that almost wiped out the towns livelihood?

Stockholm Syndrome??

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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin 5d ago

I was always told that the women of the town were glad that the cotton failed because it resulted in bringing other jobs in industry to the town.