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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Should that map say "Winslow" instead of "Winona"?
"I was standin' on a corner in Winona, Arizona"? ???
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 27, 2020, 05:47:34 pm ---Yes, they do. (I never read the whole book myself. Dave Cullen did recently, and raved about it.)
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I haven't seen Dave Cullen's posts much lately so I went to his FB page, didn't find the Lolita reference but did catch up a bit on what up with him lately Apparently his book Parkland is doing well, and he wrote a well-received article about Gabby Giffords for Vanity Fair.
--- Quote ---The last time I was on Route 66 was when I was taking my mother's ashes to be buried in Oklahoma City. No, wait: I travel a small part of it when I go to Payson, AZ, to friend EdelMar's winter house. It passes through Gallup, NM into Arizona, through Holbrook, Winslow, and westward to Flagstaff. Some of the old highway has been turned into almost a superhighway and has completely lost its character.
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My then-husband and I drive around the Southwest once or twice, starting in Louisiana, through Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and possibly into California (though that might have been a different Phoenix-to-San Diego trip). So we traveled Route 66 and stayed in some of those motels with the '50s neon signs. Somewhere I probably have photos. I used to always take photos of vintage neon back then.
Oklahoma is, I think, one of only two or three states among the 48 contiguous that I've never been in! :-\
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 27, 2020, 08:44:49 pm ---"I was standin' on a corner in Winona, Arizona"? ???
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:laugh:
Winona is a cool old small river town in Minnesota, birthplace of Winona Ryder (who was named after the town, not the other way around :laugh:).
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 27, 2020, 08:44:49 pm ---Should that map say "Winslow" instead of "Winona"?
"I was standin' on a corner in Winona, Arizona"? ???
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 28, 2020, 12:04:38 pm --- :laugh:
Winona is a cool old small river town in Minnesota, birthplace of Winona Ryder (who was named after the town, not the other way around :laugh:).
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I was standin' on a corner in Winona. Minnesota. ...
Doesn't exactly fit the meter, but it's close. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 28, 2020, 06:31:14 pm ---I was standin' on a corner in Winona. Minnesota. ...
Doesn't exactly fit the meter, but it's close. ;D
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:laugh:
Such a fine sight to see
It's Winona Ryder, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford,
slowin' down to take a look at me
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