Motels started appearing outside cities. By the 1950s, car ownership became the norm. Construction of the US interstate highway system began in 1956 and motel and restaurant chains popped up everywhere making long distance trips easier. Today, the US has the highest car o...
Driving trips first became popular in the 1920s.Newly paved roads and improved cars made it possible to travel longer distances.Motels started appearing outside cities. By the 1950s, car ownership became the norm.Construction of the US interstate highway system began in 1956 and motel and resta...
Justice Alito then chimed in and pointed out that the federal interstate highway system was created under war powers, and forces states to build the interstates within their borders (with funding from the federal government). That may be new info to some, but after seeing how well the autob...
“I provided a description of the vehicle, license plate number, direction headed based upon their exit from the interstate highway, and a description of the vehicle’s occupants, including estimates of age and racial identities as African Americans,” Peterson said in a written statement to Capi...
I’ve been in the business for 25 years. I’ve been on the planet 52 years. Nothing in my business is new. I was born in 1956. That’s right about the time that the Interstate Highway system and suburban migration changed the American landscape. Each family was capable of owning its...
Another version of the legend has it that in a bus accident, the Boy Scouts were killed. But whatever the tales are, several witnesses have claimed to have seen ghostly lamps, shadows, and little handprints. Stevens Point has a second ghostly tourist site near Boy Scout Lane: the Highway ...
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And much more satisfying to speak power to truth than the other way around. But I started noticing this was being shouted in the face of anyone at all who complained or tried to change anything at all in our crazy, ossified institutions. “You’re just a white male scared because you’...
The Assembly Line (Henry Ford) Big Brothers Big Sisters (Ernest Kent Coulter) Boy Scouts (Robert Baden-Powell) Food Stamps (Henry Wallace) Girls Scouts (Juliette Gordon Low) Head Start (Jule Sugarman) Internet (Tim Berners-Lee) Interstate Highway System (E. J. Mehren) Personal Computer (St...
Here we are rolling down Interstate 40 with two dogs and a cat in a caravan of adventure. And I’m still half elated, half scared. I’m only human. I can’t be brave in every situation. And, now the question, we’ve been asked every time, “Why Vegas?” ...