Oddball Ohio: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places - Couverture souple

Pohlen, Jerome

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1556525230 ISBN 13 : 9781556525230

Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2004

Synopsis

This off-the-wall travel guide presents an Ohio odder than imagined. It wastes no time describing Cedar Point or suggesting scenic bike rides through the Hocking Hills; instead, this entertaining travel companion directs out-of-state adventurers and Buckeye state residents to the home of the world's largest cockroach, an Amish SUV, Egg Shell Land, a two-headed calf, and the Accounting Hall of Fame. Ohio is depicted as the birthplace of bar codes, Airstream trailers, televangelism, Paul Lynde, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the banana split. Odd stories abound, and tales of Ohio as the only state where Jerry Springer has been elected the mayor of a major city, where a brick outhouse is on the National Register of Historic Places, and where Buster the Dog voted for president accompany the site-seeing suggestions. Plenty of photos and maps ensure that this guide is as practical as it is wacky when seeking out wonders such as the Great Pumpkin Watertower, Goodyear's World of Rubber, and Bogart and Bacall's wedding site, then relaxing with a brew at the World's Longest Bar.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jerome Pohlen is the author of Oddball Colorado, Oddball Florida, Oddball Illinois, Oddball Indiana, Oddball Minnesota, and Oddball Wisconsin. He is a regular travel commentator for 848 on WBEZ, the Chicago affiliate of National Public Radio, and was the recipient of the Illinois Broadcasters Associated Press Award for Best Essay 2002. He lives in Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chicago Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1556525230
• ISBN 13: 9781556525230
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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