[Ebook free] Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
♥ Warren James Belasco ♥
| #1799268 in Books | MIT Press | 1979-12 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File Name: 0262021234 | 288 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good stuff!|By rocket88|I am not totally sure why I enjoyed this book about the early years of car touring so much. The writer is very good at placing the specific history in the context of the changing attitudes and lifestyles of the times, which is big part of the appeal. The topic is also something that I am really interested in (history of roadside culture). Books like thi|||"A marvelously documented study of the evolution of American touring habits and of the infrastructure that arose to support them." -- New York Times
|"Beyond being a thoroughly researched and insightful account of the origins of the motel industry
In 'Americans on the Road', Warren James Belasco uses travel magazines, trade journals, and diaries to "look at what Americans actually did 'with' their cars rather than try to judge what cars did 'to' Americans." Belasco begins with the earliest days of automobile travel in America.
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