Thanks, MacCruiskeen. That made me wonder just how much 'eminent domain' in the USA is strictly for carbon consumption interests. I know it's been the status quo since the late 1800s. It wouldn't surprise me if it was 90% or higher.
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stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:03 pm wrote:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On The Road was published after the enactment of the Interstate Highway Act, but Kerouac wrote it years before. That legendary three week typing spree occurred inApril 1951.
stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:09 pm wrote:
Thanks, MacCruiskeen. That made me wonder just how much 'eminent domain' in the USA is strictly for carbon consumption interests. I know it's been the status quo since the late 1800s. It wouldn't surprise me if it was 90% or higher.
Iamwhomiam » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:22 pm wrote:stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:03 pm wrote:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On The Road was published after the enactment of the Interstate Highway Act, but Kerouac wrote it years before. That legendary three week typing spree occurred inApril 1951.
Thank you for your correction, Robert. I know little about Kerouac and relied on references, though they did not indicate when the three weeks Kerouac spent writing the book occurred. I imagined it to be close to its date of publication.
PufPuf93 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:14 pm wrote:Iamwhomiam » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:22 pm wrote:stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:03 pm wrote:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On The Road was published after the enactment of the Interstate Highway Act, but Kerouac wrote it years before. That legendary three week typing spree occurred inApril 1951.
Thank you for your correction, Robert. I know little about Kerouac and relied on references, though they did not indicate when the three weeks Kerouac spent writing the book occurred. I imagined it to be close to its date of publication.
Carolyn Cassady wrote a book "Off the Road" that tells of her time with Kerouac, Cassady, and Ginsberg.
In some ways Off the Road holds up better over time than On the Road, regardless they are good companion reads.
https://www.amazon.com/Off-Road-Carolyn ... f+the+Road
stillrobertpaulsen » Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:35 pm wrote:PufPuf93 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:14 pm wrote:Iamwhomiam » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:22 pm wrote:stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:03 pm wrote:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On The Road was published after the enactment of the Interstate Highway Act, but Kerouac wrote it years before. That legendary three week typing spree occurred inApril 1951.
Thank you for your correction, Robert. I know little about Kerouac and relied on references, though they did not indicate when the three weeks Kerouac spent writing the book occurred. I imagined it to be close to its date of publication.
Carolyn Cassady wrote a book "Off the Road" that tells of her time with Kerouac, Cassady, and Ginsberg.
In some ways Off the Road holds up better over time than On the Road, regardless they are good companion reads.
https://www.amazon.com/Off-Road-Carolyn ... f+the+Road
Thanks PufPuf93! That's Neal's ex-wife, correct? I know they were married for many years, despite his infidelities. I'll try to find a copy of that when I can.
norton ash » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:09 pm wrote:To hell with cultural influences... by the 50's city planners, suburbs, sprawl, parking lots, urban highway grids dictated the way North Americans everywhere would live and die by car. I read an interesting article on puma populations in LA and how the habitat-range-barrier-frontiers are all highways.
stillrobertpaulsen » Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:57 am wrote:On June 4, 1963, the President of the Alweg Rapid Transit Systems, Sixten Holmquist wrote a letter[...]
So why didn't the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approve this proposal? It was opposed by Standard Oil.
PufPuf93 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:00 pm wrote:I have never watched any of the On the Road or related movies but was/am a heavy reader of beat and 60s literature.
PufPuf93 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:00 pm wrote:Kerouac's novels were all so biographical, mainly Kerouac as a voyeur and recorder of the lives of his illustrious friends.
Freitag » Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:01 pm wrote:stillrobertpaulsen » Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:57 am wrote:On June 4, 1963, the President of the Alweg Rapid Transit Systems, Sixten Holmquist wrote a letter[...]
So why didn't the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approve this proposal? It was opposed by Standard Oil.
Standard Oil was broken up in 1911, so I'm not getting the timeline here.
stillrobertpaulsen » Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:50 am wrote:Specifically, that would be Standard Oil of California. In 1984, they changed their name to Chevron.
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