COVID and old age made them drop like flies these past few years.

When I first visited Atchison, Kansas in 2020, prior to moving here, I visited The Flea Market that's located between here and Saint Joseph, Missouri. Big, interesting junk shop. The whole back of the place was turned into a shrine to T...p: huge flags, yard signs, bumper stickers, ridiculous posters, all sorts of tat. I stop in from time to time, because flea markets are my kind of place. (Don't get me started on Tucson's glorious Tanque Verde Swap Meet!) In the past four years, I've watched this display dwindle very slowly. Crap gets sold, and not reordered. Right now, it's down to two display cases and the walls in a corner.

In Leavenworth, there was a hill on the main drag where every house on the block had some huge, low-taste TCF banner flapping. They're gone, now.

Progress.