S8E15 - Little Big Towns: Roadside Attractions As Marketing
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week, we explore roadside attractions as marketing. Interesting and often quirky landmarks that put small towns on the map. We’ll look at one town that leveraged its name to bring in thousands of TV fans, one that built a giant animal statue to get highway drivers to take a detour and another that built a monument to attract both human and non-human visitors.
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| 1:22.1 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. On September 30th, 1955, actor James Dean and his mechanic were driving to an auto rally in Salinas, California. |
| 1:47.2 | Dean's last stop was the small town of Blackwell's Corner. |
| 1:50.8 | He then continued their trip west on Highway 466 towards the next town of Chalam. |
| 1:57.3 | Dean was driving a brand new Porsche 550 Spider. |
| 2:01.2 | He wanted to enter the car in a race, |
| 2:03.3 | and his mechanic suggested he'd drive the car to Salinas to break the engine in. |
| 2:08.4 | The low-slung silver Porsche had cost Dean $7,000, |
| 2:12.5 | which he paid for from the money he earned from his very first starring role |
| 2:16.5 | in the movie East of Eden. |
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