Name: If Cars Could Talk: Pavement and Plucky Girls: 1920 Tales of Washington's First Highway
Start: 2026-06-20T11:30:00-07:00
Location: LeMay - America's Car Museum

If Cars Could Talk: Pavement and Plucky Girls: 1920 Tales of Washington's First Highway

1920s Washington State along one of the first modern highways - the Yellowstone Trail - which ran from here to Massachusetts. Along the way, meet the people and places grappling with the dizzying changes this new innovation brought.
From the young people who gained new freedoms-including the women who stunned Pullman by driving without a male escort!,
to the bootleggers, bachelors, and flappers who drove, walked, and hitchhiked the newfangled road. Join educator
Teresa Andre for a series of fascinating stories that lay at the dawn of our car-obsessed culture.
This presentation is part of Humanities Washington's Speakers Bureau program, in which cultural experts discuss history, politics,
music, philosophy, and everything in between at venues around the state.
Humanities Washington opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
The If Cars Could Talk program is free for ACM Members and is included with Museum admission thanks to generous grant funding awarded by Tacoma Creates.