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Scheels Sporting Goods

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Sparks, Nevada

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The world's largest sporting goods store complete with a ferris wheel, a fudge shop, a shooting gallery, bowling lanes, two 16,000 gallon fish tanks, and a walk of presidents. The walk of presidents consists of 14 sometimes recognizable wax representations of various presidents, including an animatronic Abraham Lincoln.

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Scheels Sporting Goods
1310 Scheels Drive
Sparks, Nevada
United States
39.530671, -119.72165
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