One of the more memorable episodes of Jack Douglas’ non-fiction “America!” TV show, “Criss Cross Caravan” presents a breakneck tour across dozens of unusual locations across the USA, an “armchair vacation” showing bizarre tourist traps like Lacey’s Doll Museum and the grave of Uncle Sam. (TRT 25:05)

(0:10) Title “America!” (0:40) Host Jack Douglas appears (1:00) Title: Criss Cross Caravan over an outline of the contiguous United States (1:15) Chicago skyline from the shore of Lake Michigan, filled with boats and crowds, gathered to see a water show (1:27) Water skiers, with tiaras. A man falls off of his skis (1:53) Half submerged convertible boats, provided by the Amphicar Club of America plow through the water, each carrying a beauty queen, each representing a Chicago beach (2:14) a hang glider on water skis, with attached American flag (2:24) an ultralight airplane with two people sitting atop an open frame (2:30) The “Golden Knights,” a group of parachuters from the U.S. army, glide down, shooting streams of pink smoke. (2:55) A speedboat race (3:01) Synchronized Air Force Thunderbirds fly low over the Chicago skyline (3:26) A Chicago Fire Department tugboat spouts colored water (3:40) The shoreline of San Diego, California, from the air (3:56) The logo of the Associated Glider Clubs of Southern California (4:00) Torrey Pines State Park. One Gail Smith climbs into a glider cockpit (4:15) The glider takes off. A toe cable hook is released. (4:33) Views from the air of the glider flying along the coast. then coming in for a landing (5:21) traffic sign for San Diego and Tijuana (5:25) Downtown Tijuana, Mexico – Avenida Revolucion in the 1960s (5:27) the facade of Caliente! racetrack. A horse race underway. (5:27) Jai alai palace. Men playing jai alai (5:56) Neon signs: the Jai Alai Restaurant, the Old Heidelberg, the Foreign Club, the Capri Restaurant, Restaurant Roma Madrid (6:14) The Tolan shop, an art object shop on the Avenida Revolucion, with a ceramic tree of life, paper flowers, hand-blown green glass fish, colima dog, Virgin of Loreto, a hand carved door. (7:11) The Parroquia Del Espiritu Santo in Chapultepec Hills in an unfinished state (7:44) Lacey’s Museum in Ocean Lake, Oregon, with it’s collection of 4,000 dolls (8:18) The Pixie Kitchen along Oregon’s Northwest coast, with an elaborate animated tableau (8:48) The visitor’s center for the Oregon Caves near Canyon City (8:59) Stalactites covered in algae in the Beehive Room, Banana Grove and Joaquin Miller’s Chapel (9:50) Juneau, Alaska, with a totem pole from Prince of Wales Island (10:20) A Juneau ferryboat, the Taku, on the Lynn Canal, before the Chilkat Range (10:50) The Eldred Rock Lighthouse (10:59) The Prince George cruise ship (11:10) Holy Hill in, a Romanesque church also called Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, Wisconsin (11:52) The narrator announces a commercial break (12:09) A busy city. A sign: “Stop Goldwaterism” (a reference to Barry Goldwater). The San Diego Zoo. (12:17) C.B. Tracy, 90, of Sun City, Arizona enters his vehicle and drives in a kind of a golf cart delivering newspapers – he delivers 300 daily. (12:54) A view of Westport, Connecticut. The sign of the Country Playhouse – apprentices paint scenery outside. A cast, among them actress Tammy Grimes, rehearses “The Private Ear and the Public Eye” (14:02) Stephen Dohanos walks home, a few miles outside of Westport. His paintings are of populated landscapes and building facades. (16:38) Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri (16:42) The Jefferson Memorial, home of the Missouri Historical Society. (16:58) An 1836 fire engine, the Central 1, with bugle. (17:42) Portraits of the founders of St. Louis, Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis (18:10 Lewis and Clark’s telescope, guns, watches, journals and powder horns (18:33) Photos of Charles Lindbergh, and his flight suit and altimeter (19:05) A Piper aircraft, number N41600, landing on a golf course at the Hound’s Ear Lodge. (19:54) Pinehurst, North Carolina, “Golf Town, U.S.A” – antique photos of the resort (20:51) Pinehurst Gun Club – a picture of once member Annie Oakley (21:25) Sign for Goshen, New York, “Cradle of the Trotter” (21:33) The Hall of Fame of the Trotter, with describes harness racing. (22:07) The Trotting Track (22:47) The William Whitley House in Stanford, Kentucky, and the first race track in America. (23:20) Uncle Sam points at the viewer. (23:36) “Uncle Sam’s” grave (Samuel Wilson 1766-1854) near Troy, New York.

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