And for a while, he was making a go of it selling gas and fried chicken until he realized that Walmart up the hill on the interstate or on the state road and Sheet's Oil next door with low-cost gasoline were squeezing him so that he couldn't compete.
40 years ago demographically but it is true that we be trying to keep an eye on somebody that we only see two or three intersection of every interstate and that's what a lot of them are but there are also the forerunners of these or
there's more small communities that have voice, and story and identity that, you know, we can touch into by taking a back roads route that will be different than if we take an interstate and stop in major cities along the way. Umm, it's just not as diverse a journey across America and really not really necessarily as representative of the diversity of culture that exists in the United States.
--last year, which displays majestically the variation that you talk about. So when we drive down the interstate and we're just confronted by Walgreen's, and McDonald's, and everything looks the same, once you get off the interstates it really isn't. And what you say is so true that out of this astonishing variety, which still exists, nonetheless connective tissue, which makes everyone able to say,
eastern sky and blot out the stars. Conquistador. Casa Calusa. Monteview. Mirador. The cars, buses and trucks on the Causeway and bridges and the north/south interstate and the traffic jam turnpikes to the suburbs have switched their headlights on. And the high-rises and skyscrapers downtown, fluorescent night-lights ignite floor after floor as the cleaners, janitors and watchmen begin their night's work and from the rooftops and pent houses, slender beacons
weren't going anywhere. The freeways were completely jammed. And so I was sitting on Interstate 10, with like hundreds of cars around me, all of us not going anywhere and Rita was coming. And fortunately, at the last minute Rita decided to take a little detour otherwise I wouldn't be here and this book wouldn't be here
And Adams was sort of one of the people who spearheaded that theory. And his quote from his brief into the Interstate Commerce Commission, I thought, really summarized my sense of how this relationship between disruptive technology and legal systems is going to play out now, a hundred years later. So he says, you can read it for yourself.
It just sounds just like the railroads of the 19th century. What's worse is they're explicitly spun off from the ICC, Interstate Commerce Commission, which managed railroads.
And there's only 200 inspectors at City Hall. The carrier, if you will, was from the Interstate Commerce Act where the language was taken from.
Glen: 1938. audience #11: 1938? Glen: 38, yeah. And then they, I think, in 1950 they passed the Highways Act and they just built-- audience #11: Yeah, it was 1956 was the Interstate highway. Glen: Even when I was a kid, we would go from South Gate. There wasn't a Harbor freeway yet. We would go to Park La Brea. I also have a bunch of maps that I brought, a few maps
And yet Travis's face is serious. "The Straw? No kiddin'? All the way down there?" "All the way there." He shrugs defensively. "I wasn't finding any tamarisk, anyway. And it didn't actually take that long. It's a lot closer than it used to be. A week out to the train tracks, and then I hopped a coal train, and rode it right to the interstate , and then I hitched." "What's it like out there?" "Empty. A trucker told me that California and the Interior Department drew up all these