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Turnpike Driving and Highway Philosophy
Airdate: Tuesday - October 22, 1963

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Fellow dreamer - how is the dream coming tonight

Show Description

After spending the whole weekend traveling up and down the east coast on non-turnpike, Shep talks about driving on the back roads of the country as opposed to the Turnpike. He talks of a friend who is a "turnpike person" and their favorite color is Howard Johnson orange because it represents safety. This guy asks how people get across the road since there are no overpasses or underpasses. You see America in a whole different way. Never take a person from another country on the Turnpike to show him the countryside. At one time you would drive all through the countryside trying to find the turnpike and now you can't escape it. There are signs that lure you on in very subtle ways. The turnpikes are all built high - above the rubble of life. There's a certain guy who believes in the expressways as a way of life. Heaven is a giant Howard Johnson and Hell is an eternal detour on the outskirts of Providence on US Route 1. Signs you see on the different highways. Driving in the dark through Ohio at 5 in the morning a Greyhound bus comes up behind him and scares him out of seven inches of growth barreling past. Shep finishes with a story about how once a 57 Ford with equipped with a Continental customizing kit, and whip antenna, comes up to an S curve just ahead of Shep, drifts out and he drives right through the fence into oblivion. Shep pulls to the side of the road with 2 or 3 others and they get out to see when another plum color Buick comes around the bend and WHOOP! through the fence without touching the sides. Someone says "Why don't we just let them all kill each other off. Why don't we just stand here and watch!"

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• Walt is the Engineer Good show about the pros andcons of driving on turnpikes vs driving on back roads.

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Record: 199 / ID: 19631022W0199

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	Date	Title
	October 22, 1963 Recno: 199	Turnpike Driving and Highway Philosophy	Original Airing

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Database ID #:	19631022W0199	Sponsors up to date:	No
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	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
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FHC / JSP Running Time: 43:55 Available on Internet	Inventory Name: 1963 10 22_W0199_030 Turnpike Philosophy WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3 Source filename: 1963 10 xx Turnpike Philosophy WOR Jean Shepherd .mp3 Source ref number: 1d Station: WOR
Mass Backwards Running Time: 45:52 Available on Internet	Inventory Name: 1963 10 22_W0199_500_M2001-02-27 Turnpike Driving.mp3 Station: WBAI Comments: Mass Backwards recording
Gary Hines Running Time: 45:28	Inventory Name: 1963 10 22_W0199_097_mod Turnpike World, Driving.mp3 Source filename: 63-10-22_mod Turnpike World, Driving.mp3 Station: WOR
Gary Hines Running Time: 45:38	Inventory Name: 1963 10 22_W0199_097_orig Turnpike World, Driving.mp3 Source filename: 63-10-22_orig Turnpike World, Driving.mp3 Station: WOR

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975