{"id":115968,"date":"2026-02-17T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115968\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:46:11","slug":"nostalgia-vs-activism-two-very-different-trucks-park-at-america-on-wheels-museum-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115968\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia vs. Activism: Two very different trucks park at America On Wheels Museum | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The famous Oscar Mayer Weinermobile made a stop at the America On Wheels Museum in Allentown Sunday afternoon. People lined up to check it out, but an international animal rights organization was also there in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Hot Dogger with Oscar Mayer, Trey O&#8217;Shea said the vehicle fit right in parked outside the museum. &#8220;It&#8217;s fitting to have the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, which is an icon&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been around since 1936.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Weinermobile turns 90 this year. &#8220;The Weinermobile transcends generations, so having people come and say I remember when I saw this with my grandparents and others bringing their own grandchildren,&#8221; said O&#8217;Shea.<\/p>\n<p>As people lined up to take pictures and explore the vehicle, but not far away was another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>PETA parked their pig truck outside the museum as well.<\/p>\n<p>The truck, covered with painted pigs, plays what PETA says are the &#8220;actual recorded sounds of panicked screams of slaughter-bound pigs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement PETA&#8217;s president, Tracy Reiman said, &#8220;Frank-ly, the Wienermobile is peddling the ground-up body parts of terrified animals. PETA&#8217;s &#8216;Hell on Wheels&#8217; truck is an appeal to everyone to be kind by choosing tasty vegan meals, including delicious Oscar Mayer veggie dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Mayer had no comment on PETA&#8217;s truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The famous Oscar Mayer Weinermobile made a stop at the America On Wheels Museum in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-115968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}