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Author : William C. Shaffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 173580780X
Shifting Gears weaves the story of the automobile with its effect on four generations of a Midwestern farm family, starting with the first car in Europe and ending with the dawn of the electric age.
Author : Hans Kasdorf
Publisher : Kindred Productions
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : 1877941107
Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300247466
A stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the jet set, and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all.
Author : Cynthia Harriman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762751853
From planning and survival tips to youth hostels, restaurants, camping, language, and renting homes, this guide makes it possible to take the kids to Europe safely and, perhaps more importantly, sanely.
Author : Rosemary Venter & Bruce Venter
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504992206
This book was written to explain a situation where those who seemed to have everything became only dust to be swept into the sea. Or so it seemed, but that dust had life within it and was to sow another future in another land.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : UCR:31210024906156
Author : Dennis Fox
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681397146
Actually, I have driven commercial vehicles throughout the United States and Canada for over five million miles. I covered a quarter of a million miles training others how to drive trucks as well. Trucks are the life of this nation, and I am proud of my involvement.
Author : Ingrid Seilern Szauter
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781646206711
This is the life story of Ingrid Seilern-Szauter, the daughter of Count and Countess Paul and Emilie Seilern. It is a story of war, passion, inner growth, love, music, family, tragedy and miracles which spans 4 continents and takes place over 70 years. It begins in Vienna, Austria, one of the most opulent capitals of the world and travels through varied places such as Poor Valley, Virginia. People, who have met the author, want to know her story... If you haven't had the pleasure, meet her, between these pages.
Author : Ann McGinley-Bok
Publisher : Pathfinder Publishing, Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0934793778
Representing one family's oral history, these stories of family picnics, nights at the dinner table, and evenings on the front porch capture the memories of an Irish immigrant's youth in the western United States. From great grandparents to colorful locals, this intimate collection reminisces about a time when family and friends entertained and supported one another with the telling of tales.
Author : Susan Sessions Rugh
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700617593
When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took to the open highway. Chronicling this innately American ritual, Susan Rugh presents a cultural history of the American middle-class family vacation from 1945 to 1973, tracing its evolution from the establishment of this summer tradition to its decline. The first in-depth look at post-World War II family travel, Rugh's study recounts how postwar prosperity and mass consumption-abetted by paid vacation leave, car ownership, and the new interstate highway system-forged the ritual of the family road trip and how that ritual became entwined with what it meant to be an American. With each car a safe haven from the Cold War, vacations became a means of strengthening family bonds and educating children in parental values, national heritage, and citizenship. Rugh's history looks closely at specific types of trips, from adventures in the Wild West to camping vacations in national parks to summers at Catskill resorts. It also highlights changing patterns of family life, such as the relationship between work and play, the increase in the number of working women, and the generation gap of the sixties. Distinctively, Rugh also plumbs NAACP archives and travel guides marketed specifically to blacks to examine the racial boundaries of road trips in light of segregated public accommodations that forced many black families to sleep in cars-a humiliation that helped spark the civil rights struggle. In addition, she explains how the experience of family camping predisposed baby boomers toward a strong environmental consciousness. Until the 1970s recession ended three decades of prosperity and the traditional nuclear family began to splinter, these family vacations were securely woven into the fabric of American life. Rugh's book allows readers to relive those wondrous wanderings across the American landscape and to better understand how they helped define an essential aspect of American culture. Notwithstanding the rueful memories of discomforts and squabbles in a crowded car, those were magical times for many of the nation's families.
Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782383789
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.” Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.
Author : Warren G. Macdonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781411678941
This is a memoir account of the author's journey from a seventeen-year-old school boy, to a combat soldier during the Korean War. Reflecting back to the summer of 1950, utilizing his notes, U. S. Army records, and his memory, he has drawn a picture in words of his movement from the easy-going classroom life of high school, to an infantry-armor trained combat soldier. He takes you into his family background, and the why of his enlistment, and carries the reader through basic, advanced training and cadre duties of a 1950's army life. An assignment to a combat infantry regiment in a very hostile environment, with an enemy and weather that causes heavy casualties, is described in blunt detail. The combat described is real, and from the point of view of the "grunt" soldier, and not from the high command. Paper back issue.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2154 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015020980804
Author : Nordyke & Marmon Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : UIUC:30112041691822
Author : Robert Bothwell,J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1552782514