spridgets
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Found it! Interstate Hy quote

To: Ajhsys@aol.com
Subject: Re: Found it! Interstate Hy quote
From: Paul A Asgeirsson <pasgeirsson@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:23:43 EDT
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <0.2ff45bb0.254744ab@aol.com>
Reply-to: Paul A Asgeirsson <pasgeirsson@juno.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Hi Allen,

I'll agree with Steinbeck on that.  Would also have agreed with Will
Rogers if he said it too!

Paul
PAsgeirsson@juno.com

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:53:47 EDT Ajhsys@aol.com writes:
>Okay, it wasn't Will Rogers, but it sounds like something he would 
>say.  Here 
>is the quote, from John Steinbeck:
>
>INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS, John Steinbeck complained in his 1962 memoir 
>Travels 
>with Charley, "are wonderful for moving goods but not for inspection 
>of a 
>countryside. When we get these thruways across the country, as we will 
>and 
>must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without 
>seeing 
>a single thing." 
>
>So, I was close.
>
>Allen Hefner
>SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>