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Don'T Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History Of The Family Road Trip
Scribner
ISBN13:
9781501188756
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A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane (Kirkus Reviews), Dont Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road tripsbefore portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps. The birth of Americas first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streamingsans seatbelts!to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didnt so much take vacations as survive them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of themfrom being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the next attraction, to dealing with a dad who didnt believe in bathroom breaks. Now, decades later, Ratay offers an amiable guide
fun and informative (New York Newsday) that goes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summers day (The Wall Street Journal). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot land yachts, oasis-like Holiday Inn Holidomes, Smokey-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnsons ice cream, and the thrill of finding a good buddy on the CB radio. An informative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips (Publishers Weekly), Dont Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the countrys, and why those magical journeys that once brought families togetherfor better and worsehave largely disappeared.
- | Author: Richard Ratay
- | Publisher: Scribner
- | Publication Date: May 14, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1501188755
- | ISBN-13: 9781501188756
- Author:
- Richard Ratay
- Publisher:
- Scribner
- Publication Date:
- May 14, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 288 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1501188755
- ISBN-13:
- 9781501188756