Craig Hinners

“The owner, Hugh Elliott, laid out a 1910 photograph of the drugstore when you could buy a freshly concocted purge or balm, or a fountain Bromo-Seltzer, or a dulcimer; although the pharmaceuticals were gone, you could still get a Bromo or a dulcimer (next to the Texas Instruments 1025 Memory Calculator). The photograph showed one other change: what had been a spacious room of several bent-steel chairs and tables was now top to bottom with merchandise. What had been a place of community was now a stuffed retail outlet. Across the nation, that change was the history of the soda fountain pharmacy.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways

“Malibu. The golden heart of a golden state. Where peace and freedom and love are the bywords of a new generation that’s never experienced the hardships of its forebears.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense

“It’s hard to argue with the success you two have had … Right. The great measuring stick of money”
― David Baldacci, Total Control

“Our beginnings do not foreshadow our ends if one judges by the Hudson River.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways