RICH HALLS VANISHING AMERICA - Hardcover

Rich Hall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025474804 ISBN 13: 9780025474802

Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction, 1986

Synopsis

Chronicles an offbeat cross-country odyssey through the backroads and byways of the United States, immortalizing the people, places, and cultural artifacts vanishing from the nation's landscape

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Comedian Hall, best known for his work on television's Saturday Night Live and Not Necessarily the News shows, veers from his popular Sniglets series in this glance at American waysides. Illustrated with some 50 photos, Vanishing America has its roots in a TV parody of Charles Kuralt's On the Road series. But here Hall picks up where Kuralt left off, finding lost shoes in the road, the man who leaves Gideon Bibles in motel rooms, the Wheel Alignment Bear, "the only good-looking person in Atlantic City," the drop-in-any-mailbox key, the author of "Daily Prayer & Chuckle" for the newspaper in Whatcom County, Washington, the last 10? Coke machine in Chillicothe, Ohio. He also eats a $1 meal in Pocatello, Idaho, and bemoans drive-in movie theaters transformed into flea markets. Wandering the landscape, Hall shows himself to be a gifted humorist who ought to survive the Sniglets craze.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0025474804
• ISBN 13: 9780025474802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112