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Join the Quote Game Volume 41
This edition of The Quote Game is initiated in honor of US Highway 41, which runs from Copper Harbor Michigan to Miami Florida. Along its route, it passes about six miles to the west of my location as it functions as "Stoplight Alley" on the east side of Evansville Indiana.
US Highway 41 was the location of the legendary bus stop/crop duster strafing scene in "North by Northwest:".
For all his legendary attention to detail, Hitch didn't catch the error his set decorator made in placing a rectangular Indiana State Highway 41 marker alongside the highway instead of a US Highway "shield" marker. A Greyhound bus from Chicago to Indianapolis, in the pre-Interstate 65 days, would have almost certainly run along US41 south out of Chicago until meeting US52 at Kentland Indiana. South of Kentland, US52 peels off to the southeast toward Lafayette and Indianapolis.
I've driven US41 from Evansville to Chicago many times. Except for the fact that the highway is now 4-lane divided and there are a lot of windmills in the fields around Kentland, the farm fields on either side of the highway are about as empty as they were for the California fields that Hitch used for the location shot.
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