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Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless © 2019 Dan Albert 304 pages Are we there yet? I mean, at the end of the book? Because it’s not fun. Oh, sure, the author is trying to … Continue reading
Romance of the Rails
Romance of the Rails: Why the Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need© 2018 Randal O’Toole300 pages “These are the 1930s again, with all the charm and romance, all the gaiety! That was a carefree world, Danny, and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged cities, Politics-CivicInterest, trains, transportation, trolleys!
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Short rounds and leftovers:
Hello, readers! Here’s hoping those of you in the US had an enjoyable Thanksgiving on Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed the company of my cousins, though I did rather poorly in our board game of choice. I blame the dice. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Europe, memoir, technology, Technology and Society, transportation
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Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am
Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am© 2011 Robert Gandt351 pages How does a world-class airline fall so quickly from the heights that its pilots are accidentally locked in the building when it closes its doors for the last time, forced … Continue reading
Door to Door
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation© 2016 Edward Humes384 pages Are you interested in the Port of Los Angeles? Do you hate cars and find hushed reports of every auto death in a single day great … Continue reading
Fares Please!
Fares, Please! A Popular History of Trolleys, Horsecars, Streetcar,s, Buses, Elevateds, and Subways© 1941, 1960 John Anderson Miller204 pages With her high starch collar and her high-topped shoes, and her hair piled high above her headShe went to find a … Continue reading
Conquest of the Skies
Conquest of the Skies: A History of Commercial Aviation in America© 1979 Carl Solberg441 pages If ever you wanted a history of commercial aviation in the United States, Conquest of the Skies is it. Beginning with the origins of flight … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged aviation, business, goods/services, history, transportation
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A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere© 1995 Graham Coster275 pages Great literature has been produced from travelers’ tales, from those who walked or rode trains or even drove — but none from a truck, says Graham Coster. In the hopes of … Continue reading
Infrastructure: A Field Guide
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape© 1999, 2014 Brian Hayes544 pages Here at last is a book for those of us who constantly gaze out the car window at the fixtures on utility poles, or drums mounted in … Continue reading
Mean Streets
Mean Streets: Confessions of a Nightime Taxi Driver© 2002 Peter McSherry256 pages Mean Streets takes readers into the dark side of Canada, or at least the dark side of Toronto. Ever since the 1970s, Peter McSherry has been driving the night … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 1970s, crime, goods/services, memoir, on the job, transportation
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