# Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727 "2003-04-01T16:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/21 "2003-04-01T21:15:01Z")
I’ve been Downtown (I even saw a picture show!) Has anyone walked through Bedford Stuyvs alone? I haven’t. I haven’t even road by mo…tor…cycle…in the raiiiin! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/22 "2003-04-01T21:23:50Z")
When I was a young’un, I had an absolutely awful prom experience with a girl who lived on Lake Shore Drive. After I dropped her off at home and got back in my car, I switched on the radio… “And it [was] four o’clock in the morning, and all the people had gone away. Just [me and my] mind and Lake Shore Drive, tommorow is another day.” ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/23 "2003-04-01T21:29:30Z")
I too have been on a corner in Winslow AZ. Nice little town. Oh, come on, nobody’s been to “New York, New York”? I have been to “Chicago”. I have been to the locations described by the following classical music: - New World Symphony - Dvorak - Vysherad Castle from the Moldau - Smetana - Venusberg from Lohengrin - Wagner - “Three hours from Barstow” - (sorry the composer slips my mind) - A mountain as described in the Alpine Symphony - Strauss - Numerous places described in the opera “Aida” - Verdi - I have stood next to a train that meets the description of “Pacific 231” - Honnegger - I have stood in the moonlight so perhaps the “Moonlight Sonata” fills the bill - Beethoven. - I have “hit the dusty trail” as described by the Army Song. - I had an interesting experience “Down by the Old Mill Stream” - I have been in a “Campanile” - Listz - I have been on the “east side, west side and all around the town” But enough of these obscure classical music references. Please don’t quibble with me, I know that the composer’s didn’t necessarily give these pieces their names. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/24 "2003-04-01T21:36:27Z")
I did leave it all behind and flew to Lahaina. Of course the Missionaries sailed there. That’s about it. Honolulu, HI, Tucson, AZ, Denton, TX, Manhattan, KS. People just don’t sing too much about those places. ---
**Author:** ![Kaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/25 "2003-04-01T21:46:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*were you _Stuck in Lodi Again_ in Wisconsin? \*\* Nope, right [here in California](http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&ed=8y.E1.p_0TpXUjeVbbuZhWnmSdvS6BDmZP5B1JQc_uel_yPmIdUr5NIGkjkqhoxfkw--&csz=Lodi,+CA&country=us&cs=4&name=&desc=&poititle=&poi=&uz=95240&ds=n&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=3&newmag=4) Also, I’ve been to the Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which recently has been turned into a Cal State University, amusingly enough, and heard the mission bell, it wasn’t quite desert, but it definitely was a shimmering light on the dark highway. Local legend has long claimed that that Mental Hospital was the inspiration for _Hotel California_, true or not, I can’t confirm. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/26 "2003-04-01T22:08:17Z")
I’ve been sailing a reach, before a following sea . . . on the downhill run to – (San Diego. Papeete Bay will have to wait, I guess. And I’m about 56 feet short of 80 feet of waterline) – nicely making way . . . And I’ll be in a noisy bar in Avalon this weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/27 "2003-04-01T22:22:42Z")
Many times I have found myself walking down the streets of Fairfax, California, and yet, I still do not know if God pulls teeth. I have also been in San Pablo Bay, but I was not fishing at the time. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/28 "2003-04-01T22:59:58Z")
I make fairly regular trips to Winslow. It’s a bunghole of a town, but it’s a great spot to get away from the Phoenix heat and bustle for a weekend. Also, from Motley Crue’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” I’ve been to the Dollhouse, Body Shop, Marble Arch, Tropicana and Seven Veils. I’ve also, from Zevon’s “Lawyers Guns and Money” hidden out in Honduras (very briefly). ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/29 "2003-04-01T23:10:34Z")
I once shot a man in Reno… Just kidding, I did punch a man in Reno once, but he didn’t die. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/30 "2003-04-01T23:18:28Z")
I went to Luckenbach, Texas, but the store was closed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/31 "2003-04-01T23:25:14Z")
Hey I just realized, right now, I’m _[three days ride from Bakersfield](http://maps.yahoo.com/py/ddResults.py?Pyt=Tmap&tarname=&tardesc=&osd=&newname=&newdesc=&dsd=&newHash=&newTHash=&newErr=&newTErr=&newFL=Use+Address+Below&newaddr=&newcsz=los+angeles%2C+ca&newcountry=us&newTFL=Use+Address+Below&newtaddr=&newtcsz=Bakersfield%2C+CA&newtcountry=us&Submit=Get+Directions)_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/32 "2003-04-01T23:50:25Z")
I’m often “driving up 85” a la John Mayer in _Why, Georgia, Why_, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/33 "2003-04-02T00:47:20Z")
When I lived in SoCal, I once saw a sunset that can only be described as “bloody red sun of fantastic L.A.” (The Doors, “L.A. Woman.” During that time I was also “on my way back home, up on the Ventura,” or “up on the 101” (Tori Amos, "Sorta Fairytale) The Wu-Tang Clan song “Can It Ever Be So Simple” states, “Started off on the island, AK Shaolin,” which means they started life on Staten Island, just like me. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/34 "2003-04-02T01:44:10Z")
The last time I passed thru L.A. I didn’t get “to the Sunset Grill,” but I did “gaze out at the auburn sky.” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/35 "2003-04-02T01:57:12Z")
“Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight Drivin’ alone through the Wisconsin night You’re my last love you’re my last chance” -Cadillac Ranch, Springsteen Memories of my midwest adolescence with my gf (now wife)! ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/36 "2003-04-02T02:03:41Z")
About twice a week I’m “driving up 85” ala John Mayer. I have “headed down the Atlanta Highway” although I wasn’t looking for the Love Shack I have been in “A Rainy Night In Georgia” I have been “Rocky Mountain High (in Colorado)” ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/37 "2003-04-02T02:15:59Z")
I’ve been to Memphis, so on the way I was “goin’ to Graceland.” Oh, and **racinchikki** , I’ve been to about 35 to 40 of the places in Johnny Cash’s “I’ve been Everywhere.” 😛 A couple years on tour will do that to you… ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/38 "2003-04-02T02:41:21Z")
Now this would be quite difficult to acheive unless your wife/girlfriend is ready to give birth and you have a deathwish… _My father was a gambler down in Georgia He wound up on the wrong end of a gun And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus Rollin’ down highway forty-one…_ Any takers? [Ramblin’ Man](http://users.cis.net/sammy/allman.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Kaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaf)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/39 "2003-04-02T02:44:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yeticus Rex \* > \*\* > > Any takers? > > [Ramblin’ Man](http://users.cis.net/sammy/allman.htm) \*\* Well, a few years ago, on a trip to the Southern parts I drove from Nashville to New Orleans, the delta women didn’t want no part of me. :smack: d’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/40 "2003-04-02T03:41:10Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve been at a truck stop, Johnson City, Tennessee. (Modern-Day Bonnie & Clyde) My home town! Where’s the truck stop? As for the OP… well, I have seen _Paradise by the dashboard light._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727.md?page=3)