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Passing Gas: And Other Towns on the American Highway | 
 enlarge | Author: Gary Gladstone
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 182901
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1580084567
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9973
EAN: 9781580084567
ASIN: 1580084567
Publication Date: April 2003
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Book Description
Passing Gas And Other Towns Along the American Highway by Gary Gladstone "Explaining how to find her café in Gas, Kansas, Bonnie Steward said, `Come down Route 12, but if you blink, you'll pass Gas.'" Gas isn't all you'll be passing if you come along for the ride with author Gary Gladstone on a cross-country road trip across the U.S.A. With camera in hand and the penchant for the unexpected, Gladstone captures a photographic portrait of small towns with unusual names and the folks who keep them on the map with their (admittedly offbeat) civic pride. You'll meet bar buddies Don, Ron, and Flakey Jake from Goofy Ridge, Illinois; stop in at the mechanics shop in Nothing, Arizona, to confirm that Nothing really does sit in the middle of nowhere; and be regaled with colorful stories from the locals of Boogertown, North Carolina, about how the town got its name. So jump in the backseat of the car and get ready for an honest slice of apple-pie America, chock full of myths, legends, and laughs.
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 GREAT BOOK March 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. The stories were interesting and the pictures very nice. A great book to have on the coffee table. It was in excellent condition and highly recommend this seller.
 Passing Gas: And Others Towns on the American Highway January 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was really interesting and not hard to read. Enjoyed the information and laughs.
Great Book! :) June 24, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a good book. I live in Finger, TN (Should have been in the book too! LOL ), which is near Sweetlips TN. I used to tell people I live between Finger and Sweetlips and they would laugh.
This is my grandpa in the picture for Sweetlips. We didn't believe him at first when he said he was going to be in a book. And it is still funny to see his pic here. They also used it on VH1 best year ever. We all got a laugh out of that.
Seeing all the towns in this book makes me want to visit them all.
Gas is worth it to see small town USA and you'll feel good! January 23, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is rated G for "good fun" because the complete title is "Passing Gas and other Towns along the American Highway." I have a dream of one day getting on my fantasy American built Indian or Knucklehead motorcycle and seeing our beautiful Country. Gary Gladstone gives me a vicarous peek without leaving NYC and he makes me giggle too. Anything to do with "gas" humor can send me into giggle spasms but Gary's book is tame with rich color pictures of small towns with the funniest names and sweet humble stories that accompany the pictures. My favorites are, "Gas, Kansas","Boogertown" and "Scream", Alamba" ,"Rough and Ready,PA" "Romance, Arkansas" and there are so many more colorful names.
This book is a great gift for any friends that need some cheering up. It is quietly humorous, tame, fun and pleasurable for those that would like to either see more of Our Country or enjoy the characters as much as the countryside that make America truly rich!
A wonderful book July 23, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book isn't a reference book on the origin of odd town names, rather it is a book of people in or around oddly named places across the country. The author collected maps and atlases from across the country and narrowed down the names to what you'll find in the book. His approach seemed to be two fold: either drive to the town and convince someone to pose or else call ahead and try to line up a subject through the law enforcement offices, etc. In either case, what he's done is give us wonderful portraits of not just people, but of the places they live or work near. For each town, he'd get the local folk's idea of where the name came from, often stories handed down from generation to generation.
The book is presented so that when you open the book, the photograph is on the right page and the dialog is on the left. Each town has about three-quarters of a page of writing, telling something about the person, the trip to the area, how the photograph came about, and the town. Both the picture and the writing are wonderfully crafted.
I've passed my book around and find that, without exception, everyone enjoys it. Quite a bargain for such good photographs.
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