![]() ![]() ![]() This book won’t stretch your imagination like space travel logs may do, but I guarantee if you show this book of verses to anyone born before President Eisenhower proposed the Interstate Highway System, that person will have a story or two to tell you. Thinking back to, and experiencing, a car trip in those days is very much like telling Scotty “Beam me up” in today’s science fiction. Before there were hand-held video games or back-seat DVD Players, there were signs - little signs, close to the road, easy to read, not too many words. There was a time, not all that long ago, when making a trip in the family car, was an adventure in and of itself. ![]() In this Christmas season, with Oscar nominations looming and Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, generating a national buzz, this book from 1965 is a real nostalgia agitator. We'd read stupid little doggerel verses on the side of the road, and then took them as a theme message for a discussion in the car, until we came to the next new thing to discuss. Most people alive today weren't born when we drove on something other than interstate highways, and didn't isolate ourselves with ear buds and hand held games. ![]()
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