It’s official!

With Memorial Day behind us, America is on the move as summer vacations get underway and folks take to the interstates.

In my childhood in the 1950s, in the pre-interstate highway age, road trips were long and quite boring, especially when you’re a kid.

Our car for the annual Jersey-to-Florida trek each July was a 1954 two-tone Ford station wagon that had three things missing: a radio, clock and air conditioning.

My father firmly believed there were two automotive items that Detroit was industrially incapable of producing: radios and clocks.

He opined that you could count on them being broken well-before the car’s warranty expired.

And, well, as far as air conditioning, roll down a window and be beaten to death by 50 mph winds, because air conditioning was only for the

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