Insiders' Guide Northern California Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Rubin, Saul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 076272899X ISBN 13: 9780762728992

Casa editrice: Globe Pequot Pr, 2005

Riassunto

Welcome to Northern California, and its oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena. With this book in hand and a smile on their face, visitors will learn where residents speak their own language, stay the night at a motel made up of cabooses, and go wild and woolly for the Big Foot Jamboree. Readers will meet an Elvis-loving cop who croons songs promoting safe driving, marvel at a light bulb burning since 1901, and learn where to compete in the International Frog Jumping Grand Finals. It does seem like Californians have more fun!

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L'autore

Saul Rubin, a veteran California journalist, has covered everything from major disasters to the state's quirky culture. He has hobnobbed with celebrities while an entertainment writer for the Los Angeles Times, and chased down sports figures while writing and developing stories for a national sports magazine show on Fox Sports Net. As a staff feature writer for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers based in Santa Monica, California, he penned a weekly humor column. His books include Southern California Curiosities (Globe Pequot Press, 2004) and Offbeat Museums. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Los Angeles area, where he is a full-time journalism instructor at Santa Monica College.

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Northern California Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things Northern California has to offer. Humorist and veteran journalist Saul Rubin has traveled way off the beaten path for one-of-a-kind gems that make his home turf truly unique.

You'll meet the first (and most famous) Artichoke Queen of Castroville- Marilyn Monroe; a dog whose epitaph was written by Mark Twain; and the stripper whose reputation gave birth to the slogan, "What Lola wants, Lola gets."

You'll tour a city where the dead outnumber the living; a house with 10,000 windows and 2,000 doors; and a town named after a drunken mispronunciation.

You'll discover a $12,000 toad tunnel; a light bulb that's burned since 1901; and the true event that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Whether you were born and raised in Northern California or are a recent transplant, Saul Rubin's home-grown humor will have you laughing out loud as he introduces you to the neighbors you never knew you had and takes you to places you never knew existed-right in your own backyard.

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• Editore: Globe Pequot Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 076272899X
• ISBN 13: 9780762728992
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 271