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I wonder what 1946 song (Get your kicks on) Route 66 is about. Are you people not Americans? Do you have any idea how big car travel is here and how it's been

I wonder what 1946 song (Get your kicks on) Route 66 is about. Are you people not Americans? Do you have any idea how big car travel is here and how it's been happening way, way, before the 70's and 80's? My parents drove out to Yellowstone with my grandparents a very long time ago.

mint2 4y ago
I think people are just not very aware of the past including their grandfathers generation these days. My grandfather was a college lecturer and would plan massive road trips each summer in the 60s to all the national parks. These days I doubt a college lecturer could take summer off
- saghm 4y ago
  >> Are you people not Americans? > I think people are just not very aware of the past including their grandfathers generation these days. It feels surreal to have to even state this, but "being American" does not require that one's grandparents grew up in America. Being a first or second generation immigrant does not make one less "American"
  - mint2 4y ago
    Errr soooo yeah the context is how today’s American family outings compares to American family outings of decades past… So you’re right the wording was bad, i wasn’t the one that said “not Americans” but I think that person was confused why so many are making flat out incorrect comments like they don’t know anything about America. My comments was trying to say, “no even multigenerational Americans often don’t know what their grandparents generation was like.” In this context of comparing American vacations across time periods, the group you’re talking about, Recent immigrants, I would hope aren’t commenting because very few would have researched the topic of American vacations from 1920 to 1980.
    - saghm 4y ago
      That's fair; I probably could have just replied directly to the parent you were replying to rather than to you.
ac29 4y ago
Route 66 wasnt even fully paved for the first decade of its existence, and was never an interstate. I dont think anyone here thinks travel by car was invented in the 1970s.
newsclues 4y ago
Not American but I know that car reliability has improved to the point where motels and roadhouses have largely faded away from the highways as people are able to travel further more reliability.

mint2 4y ago

I think people are just not very aware of the past including their grandfathers generation these days. My grandfather was a college lecturer and would plan massive road trips each summer in the 60s to all the national parks. These days I doubt a college lecturer could take summer off

saghm 4y ago
>> Are you people not Americans? > I think people are just not very aware of the past including their grandfathers generation these days. It feels surreal to have to even state this, but "being American" does not require that one's grandparents grew up in America. Being a first or second generation immigrant does not make one less "American"
- mint2 4y ago
  Errr soooo yeah the context is how today’s American family outings compares to American family outings of decades past… So you’re right the wording was bad, i wasn’t the one that said “not Americans” but I think that person was confused why so many are making flat out incorrect comments like they don’t know anything about America. My comments was trying to say, “no even multigenerational Americans often don’t know what their grandparents generation was like.” In this context of comparing American vacations across time periods, the group you’re talking about, Recent immigrants, I would hope aren’t commenting because very few would have researched the topic of American vacations from 1920 to 1980.
  - saghm 4y ago
    That's fair; I probably could have just replied directly to the parent you were replying to rather than to you.

ac29 4y ago

Route 66 wasnt even fully paved for the first decade of its existence, and was never an interstate. I dont think anyone here thinks travel by car was invented in the 1970s.

newsclues 4y ago

Not American but I know that car reliability has improved to the point where motels and roadhouses have largely faded away from the highways as people are able to travel further more reliability.