RICH HALLS VANISHING AMERICA [Hardcover]

Hall (Author)

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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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction; 1St Edition edition (November 3, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0025474804
• ISBN-13: 978-0025474802
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,922,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a road trip..., November 3, 2007

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This review is from: Rich Hall's Vanishing America (Hardcover)

I was recommended this book by my friend Guy. This was a very quick read -- only 112 pages. Yet this book makes you want to go on a road trip on the back roads of America and find something new. Not brand new and corporate but homegrown, unique, and sometimes just alittle of kitler... and meet people like Clinton at an old Shell station or the Mallinkrodt's Texaco Tannhauuser Orchestra in Faust, NC or the U-Swat-Em Apple homerun baseball game in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin to name a few. I totally recommend this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a road trip..., November 3, 2007

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This review is from: RICH HALLS VANISHING AMERICA (Hardcover)

I was recommended this book by my friend Guy. This was a very quick read -- only 112 pages. Yet this book makes you want to go on a road trip on the back roads of America and find something new. Not brand new and corporate but homegrown, unique, and sometimes just alittle of kitler... and meet people like Clinton at an old Shell station or the Mallinkrodt's Texaco Tannhauuser Orchestra in Faust, NC or the U-Swat-Em Apple homerun baseball game in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin to name a few. I totally recommend this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a road trip..., November 3, 2007

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I was recommended this book by my friend Guy. This was a very quick read -- only 112 pages. Yet this book makes you want to go on a road trip on the back roads of America and find something new. Not brand new and corporate but homegrown, unique, and sometimes just alittle of kitler... and meet people like Clinton at an old Shell station or the Mallinkrodt's Texaco Tannhauuser Orchestra in Faust, NC or the U-Swat-Em Apple homerun baseball game in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin to name a few. I totally recommend this book.