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"New World Records" - World's biggest rocking chair - PHOTO

22 February 2010 [15:30] - TODAY.AZ
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Bono's trophy case includes 22 Grammys, Time magazine "Man of the Year" honors and a slew of humanitarian awards, but he's not the World's Biggest Rocker.

That honor goes to Dan and Carolyn Sanazaro's 42-foot, 1-inch behemoth in Cuba, Missouri.

Why blow $22,000 on a 27,000-lb. roadside attraction? For one good reason: It's good business.

If Kevin Costner movies have taught us one thing, it's this, "If you build it, they will come." … And they do -- to Sanazaro's Fanning Outpost General Store.

"You certainly don't make money selling gas these days," says Dan. "You've got to be creative."

"People come in and say, 'Why did you build the rocking chair?' And I ask them why they came here, and they say, 'To see the rocking chair!' So there, you have it."

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