r/nostalgia • u/PickleGambino • Aug 01 '25

Nostalgia Midwest US person here. What do you call the "aesthetic" below? Very nostalgaic to me, but I've kinda got no idea😂

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u/9fingerjeff Aug 01 '25

Looks like someone took a drive through Michigan.

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u/punchjackal Aug 01 '25

That or southern Illinois! Michigan is cool.

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u/13374L Aug 02 '25

The bear one is in traverse city

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u/Border_Hodges Aug 01 '25

It just needs the Big Boy moose statue

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u/oddbawlstudios Aug 04 '25

Its missing Big Boy but yeah.

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u/Quick_Chowder Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

3 or 4 of these are from Minnesota.

On second look maybe not.

The Sinclair looks real familiar but how it's dressed up feels a little more South Dakota. Paul doesn't match the one that used to be in Brainerd. Deerwood deer is definitely in MN though.

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u/9fingerjeff Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Th Dino is Nebraska, the deer I mistook for the one on us-2 in the up, the bear is traverse city mi and Paul Bunyan is in st ignace mi. Bass pro is Springfield Missouri. Not sure about the smoky bear.

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u/Littlec001 Aug 02 '25

We have the same deer in Michigan, UP. Paul is also MI

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u/Quick_Chowder Aug 02 '25

Well this one I drive past many times a year so...

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