Word: winnebagos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulldozer operators, stubble-bearded, pinch-eyed welders from Chicago and Bartlesville, Okla., geologists from "back East," college students out for adventure, and a smattering of whores, highrollers and assorted hangers-on from all over. They come by jets screaming in from Houston and New Orleans, or in mud-covered Winnebago trailers swaying up the Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike it rich...
...Library building. Just behind the wax museum is a Micro Zoo ("100's of Microscopic Animals and Plants. Projected Alive...A Living Educational Exhibit"). Not surprisingly, there are several fast food stores. And two private campgrounds ("Feel free to inspect our restrooms"). In the campground I looked over, 33 Winnebago-type mobile homes were registered...
...amazingly relaxed. Each star has his own sound man and crew, which adds up to a combined entourage of 84. Like four affable, affluent businessmen bound for a Sunday afternoon of pro football, C. S. N. & Y. travel from hotel to concert in the comfort of an air-conditioned Winnebago motor home. Elaborate picnic barbecues precede each concert, with a catered steak-and-salad dinner served afterward...
...Adams does not know where his life is going, and he does not much care for anything. It is a truth that is all the more painful because he is forced to face it by a man whom he feels is his inferior in every way. Frederick Giles of Winnebago Terrace, Ill., graduate of Kansas State and World War II veteran who wears an American flag tie clasp, is also staying at the Rufus Arms. He would be everyone's idea of a silent American, except that he spends his evenings at the hotel bar drinking heavily, flapping...
...predominantly male world of tall tales poker and six-pack camaraderie. Each February, when the ice grows thick enough on lakes in the Northern states whole towns of ice-fishing shacks spring up, complete with telephones, electricity and posted roads-the exurbia-on-ice a Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago had a population of 30,000 last week...