1993 Bus Trip Across the USA
1994 Bus Trip Down The Mississippi
Family Burial Plots: Mount Olivet Cemetery, DC
What The Hell Kind Of Clown Are You?! mask
1902 Phone Book
45 RPM Adapter
XTC Go 2: Stop Reading Now!
Space Invaders: Game Over
Space Invaders: Villains
Chicago 1917: The Real National Pastime: Mask
Oh Hell, or Hello?
Cat Whiskers
NietzscheIs Dead – GOD
1916: US Liberty Dime Mask
Disco Still Sucks
Texaco No. 7
The Death Throes of PC DOS
Seer/Sucker (aka The Illustrated Man’s Guitar)
1993 Bus Trip Across the USA
About This Map
This StoryMap shows 3 1/2 days of journal entries from an open-ended Greyhound bus trip I took across America in 1993.
I rode from coast to coast and back in 11 days, here are some dispatches from that trip.
All photos and text © 1993 - 2023 | John Carmody, Washington DC.
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Mostly, I focus on recreations of ephemeral relics from the better days of the USA.
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2022: Goofus Was Framed
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2022: Vegetarian Is Not Vegan
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2022: It’s Aways Marshall Marshall Marshall
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1835: You May All Go To Hell And I Will Go To Texas
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1936: Just Say Moe
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2021: Splat @ 25 Band Logo
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1971: Washington Redskins – I Like Sonny
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2020: Grimm Whitman Band Logo
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2020: Carmody All Star
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1968: Hubert H. Humphrey Campaign Logo
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1972: Richard Nixon Campaign Logo
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1974: Trav’s Inn – Glen Echo, Maryland
Original Custom Face Mask Designs
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Recent Site Highlights
Aircheck Collection
I used to be a hoarder of found moments on the AM & FM radio airwaves
The Big Broadcast
Ed Walker, one of the Joy Boys, brought back the golden days of radio every Sunday night for 30 years.
Gunsmoke. Jack Benny. Dragnet. Lum 'n Abner. The Shadow. News of the day, much more.
The Big Broadcast played on WAMU FM on Sunday nights, mostly from 7 to 11.
The Eddie Stubbs Show
Eddie Stubbs's Sunday show on WAMU FM played a variety of classic honkytonk, traditional country and vintage bluegrass + deep catalog favorites.
This was a show for listening to while drinking beer in the sun in the afternoon, great music delivered with unique insight.
The Dick Spottswood Show
The "Obsolete Music Hour" played rare classic recordings of bluegrass, country, string bands, honky tonk, western swing, blues, gospel & old world music.
Great Music & Sports
Off-the-air live recordings of a now-defunct station playing all sorts of great American popular music from the mid-20th century, back when music was good.
You'll also find some Baltimore Orioles post-game highlights from the mid-1980s.
News & Music on WAMU
From elections to 9/11 to the war on terror, these off-the-air live recordings of events of the day are from NPR on WAMU FM.
