Oddball Indiana: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places (Oddball series) |  | Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 371608
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1556524382
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.720444
EAN: 9781556524387
ASIN: 1556524382
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Square Donuts. The World's Largest Stump. Oscar the Monster Turtle. Johnny Appleseed's grave. The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. While other travel guides tell you about yet another cozy bed-and-breakfast and bike trails through Brown County, Oddball Indiana offers wacky travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Why is Nancy Barnett's grave in the middle of a country road? Where can you go to communicate with your dead Aunt Clara? Who invented Alka-Seltzer? How did David Letterman get fired from his first broadcasting gig? This is the guide to the real Indiana, birthplace of corn flakes, Dan Quayle, and Wonder Bread, for those who want to laugh, not lounge, on their vacation.
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 GREAT GIFT FOR THE SHUTTERBUG June 2, 2010
Minda G. Lehman (Wabash, IN, US)
PURCHASED THIS FOR OUR SON WHO IS ADDICTED TO PHOTOGRAPHY - IT SHOULD GIVE HIM GOOD IDEAS FOR PHOTO ROAD TRIPS
 Delivers as promised but too much fascination with... August 30, 2004
DWD (Indianapolis, IN)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
...Dan Quayle and Jim Jones.
Th book does a great job of showing some of the odd things that make the Hoosier state unique, including Santa Claus, IN and the world's largest steer (he's stuffed). It also turns out that Indiana is the birthplace of Wonder Bread, Alka Seltzer, Corn Flakes, Pork and Beans and the unique shape of the Coca-Cola bottle. He includes driving directions that look to be accurate (I am familiar with some of these places) although a good map of Indiana would also be required to even find some of the towns that he mentions. He includes several pictures, which generally are helpful.
This really could have been a charming little book - one that I would have been 100% enthused about except for the author's fascination with Dan Quayle (not in a positive way, either) and Jim Jones (the cult leader who led his 900+ followers in a mass suicide in Guyana in the 1978). Do we really need to see Dan Quayle's frat house? Do we really need to see a picture of the bridge that his Jones' uncle jumped off of in order to commit suicide?
But, on the whole, the guide is useful and entertaining. It includes addresses, phone numbers, web addresses, visiting hours, costs (if any) and directions to every location he describes. I do recommend it for anyone who likes to travel off of the beaten path.
An enjoyable and informative read. April 23, 2009
William Nelson Beard (Central Indiana)
I have seen about half of the entries, now I MUST go see the rest.
A very good guide for touring.
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