# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/61 "2003-04-05T07:23:46Z")
Well, I once lived on "The Blue Ridge Mountain, just a few hundred feet above the “Shenendoah River”, in West Virginia. (Oddly enough most of both of those geographical features are in Virginia, but Jefferson County, is where they are in West VA.) Then there was the day I had to “go back to Annandale.” I have once or twice been “Goin’ to Carolina” in more than my mind. I have driven through a “Rainy Night in Georgia.” I saw the “Midnight Train to Georgia” leave, once, but I was going somewhere else. I once was “Going to San Francisco” so I made a point of putting some flowers in my hair. “Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso”, . . . Well, I left town too, although I never fell in love, or got shot. (It’s where I heard the darned song too, way more than I ever wanted to.) Not long after that, I was “Lost in the rain in Juarez” although it was not Easter time. I ended up in “A little cafe, just the other side of the border.” Jose was not there. “By the time I got to Phoenix”, everyone had been up for hours. It was after lunch time. I have, of course sat on docks, in bays, and under boardwalks, and up on roofs. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/62 "2003-04-05T07:27:25Z")
You know, they probably rent flatbed fords in Winslow, by the hour. There have to be a couple of dozen Eagles fans a week passing through. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/63 "2003-04-06T07:19:33Z")
**Spoons** Here you go, the Schedule of [The City of New Orleans"](http://www.transitinfo.org/Amtrak/Scheds/w_cno.html). Evidently it doesn’t leave on Monday mornin’ anymore, and of course it’s Amtrak, not Illinois Central. ## Tris “This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues.” Steven Goodman ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/64 "2003-04-06T07:49:29Z")
If you visit Winslow, Arizona, today, you don’t have to wait around for a girl in a flatbed Ford to pass by. You’ll find her in [Standin’ on the Corner Park](http://www.standinonthecorner.com/). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/65 "2003-04-07T17:19:05Z")
Kaf, I think I just got your “three days ride from Bakersfield” reference… “Mexicali Blues”? [Which is Bob Weir (off “Ace”), NOT a Grateful Dead song.] ---
**Author:** ![marinwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marinwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marinwood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/66 "2003-04-07T20:27:21Z")
Well, once I went “from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma,” not to mention “Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.” And being a Northern California girl, I can assure you that we are all [very warm](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/steve-miller-band/50404.htm). ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/67 "2003-04-08T03:13:45Z")
When I dropped out of college my sophomore year (for sophomoric reasons) I was saying [“Whoa no, William and Mary won’t do”](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/myoldsch.htm) and I was even thinking “I’m never goin back to my old school” but I was wrong. I went back and finished. And met and married a guy from Annandale. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/68 "2003-04-08T03:33:41Z")
I was one amused kid when we rolled into Santa Cruz one year while the radio played the Beach Boys’ _Surfin’ USA._ Just as I turned onto I-5 in Albany, Oregon, to make the long solo trek to Las Cruces, New Mexico, Whitesnake’s _Here I go again_ (on my own) came on the radio. Now that I’m so close, spatially and temporally, I suppose I could be _lost in the rain in Jaurez, and it’s Easter time too_. That is, if it ever rained around here. On second thought, I don’t want to be lost in Juarez, rain, Easter or no. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/69 "2003-04-08T08:05:33Z")
I was in Kansas City in 1993 and tried to go to the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine. The intersection no longer exists because of redevelopment. There is now a lawn where Twelfth and Vine used to be. They put a street sign in the middle of the lawn indicating where the intersection used to be. "I’m standing on the corner, Twelfth Street and Vine, "I’m standing on the corner, Twelfth Street and Vine, “With my Kansas City baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine.” ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/70 "2003-04-08T08:06:51Z")
I was in Kansas City in 1993 and tried to go to the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine. The intersection no longer exists because of redevelopment. There is now a lawn where Twelfth and Vine used to be. They put a street sign in the middle of the lawn indicating where the intersection used to be. "I’ll be standing on the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine, "I’ll be standing on the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine, “With my Kansas City baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine.” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/71 "2003-04-08T16:10:36Z")
Was often in this Blessid Union of Souls song, during the three years I lived in Newport News: _Oh Virginia down the highway 64 East way to Newport News There you’ll find an open door in Oh Virginia all my friends are there to greet me Just a smile down 64 along the open road_ Since I’ve often been out to visit my L.A. relatives, both Santa Monica Boulevard and Ventura Highway are old acquaintances. I went to college in New England, and stayed up there for a little while afterwards, so I’ve seen the “turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston” “covered with snow” more than a few times. I’ve been to the “town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts” that Arlo fondly describes in _Alice’s Restaurant_. My red-haired first love crosses my mind from time to time. So: _Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’, I was layin’ in bed wonderin’ if she’d changed at all, if her hair was still red_ And later in the same song, a nod to my onetime profession: _ **some are mathematicians** , some are carpenter’s wives, don’t know how it all got started, don’t know what they do with their lives._ Ah, living in a Dylan song. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/72 "2003-04-20T09:50:01Z")
I go _up on the 101_ all the time - it’s the main freeway here. I’ve sat _watching the tide roll in, and watched it roll away again_ many a time. Pretty much the only thing to do when we go on vacation. ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727/73 "2003-04-20T10:19:11Z")
I, too, have been _walkin’ in Memphis_, and also Union Avenue, but I did not see the ghost of Elvis. I have been _standin’ on the corner of 52nd and Broadway_. I went through Exit 75 and was still alive. And one time on vacation I almost _dropped off the edge again, down in Juarez_, but I fortunately regained my balance. I also _met him in a hotel_, and he was in fact a _Northern lad_. Many, many times in my life my friends and I _drove the car to the top of the parking ramp, Fourth of July. Sat out on the hood with a couple warm beers and watched the fireworks explode in the sky._ I have also _moved west down Ventura Blvd._ There were indeed some _bad boys standin’ in the shadows._ One time while camping I spent a _Night On Bald Mountain_. In college I _was laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, going home._ It wasn’t in New York City, but the winters sure were bleedin’ me. I have also spent _one more day up in the canyons_, and _one more night in Hollywood_, though not consecutively. A friend and I were _stumbling through the barrio_ once, too, and I distinctly remember wishing I was _someone just a little more funky._ And countless times have I walked the _Streets of Philadelphia_, often in the rain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standin-on-a-corner-in-winslow-arizona/165727.md?page=3)