Don't make me pull over! : an informal history of the family road trip
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Don't make me pull over! : an informal history of the family road trip
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- Don't make me pull over! : an informal history of the family road trip
- Title remainder
- an informal history of the family road trip
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Ratay
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- Do not make me pull over
- Dont make me pull over!
- Title variation remainder
- an informal history of the family road trip
- Subject
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- trueFamily vacations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- trueMotor vehicle driving
- Popular culture
- truePopular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueVacations
- 1900-1999
- Automobile travel
- trueAutomobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- trueAutomobiles -- Safety measures
- trueFamily relationships
- Family vacations
- History
- Manners and customs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the days before cheap air travel, families didn't 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 them--from 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 didn't believe in bathroom breaks. The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streaming--sans seatbelts!--to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. Frequently, what was remembered the longest wasn't Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, or Disney World, but such roadside attractions as "The Thing" in Texas Canyon, Arizona, or "The Mystery Spot" in Santa Cruz, California. In this road tourism-crazy era that stretched through the 1970's, national parks attendance swelled to 165 million, and a whopping 2.2 million people visited Gettysburg each year, thirteen times the number of soldiers who fought in the battle. Now, decades later, Ratay offers a paean to what was lost, showing how family togetherness was eventually sacrificed to electronic distractions and the urge to "get there now." 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, 28 glorious flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, and the thrill of finding a "good buddy" on the CB radio. A rousing Ratay family ride-along, Don't Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the country's, and why those magical journeys that once brought families together--for better and worse--have largely disappeared
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- 306.0973/0904
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- no index present
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- non fiction
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