Editing Harry and Tonto (section)

==Plot==
Harry Coombes is an elderly widower and retired teacher who is evicted from his [[Upper West Side]] apartment in [[New York City]] because his building will be razed to build a parking lot. He initially stays with his eldest son Burt's family in the suburbs, but chooses to travel cross-country with his pet cat, Tonto.

Initially planning to fly to [[Chicago]], Harry has a problem with airport security checking his cat carrier. He instead boards a long-distance bus. He disembarks in the countryside so that Tonto can urinate, and the angry bus driver leaves him there. Harry buys a 1955 [[Chevrolet Bel Air]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_303014-Chevrolet-Bel-Air-1955.html |title=IMCDb.org: 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air in "Harry and Tonto, 1974" |access-date=2018-03-07 |archive-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308165201/http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_303014-Chevrolet-Bel-Air-1955.html |url-status=live }}</ref> although his driver's license has expired. During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting [[hitchhiker]] and an underage runaway named Ginger, with whom he visits an old sweetheart in a retirement home who barely remembers him. He visits his daughter, a bookstore owner in Chicago, with whom he shares a prickly but mutually admiring relationship. Harry's shy grandson and Ginger depart for a commune in Colorado in Harry's car, with his blessing, so he and Tonto are on their own again.

Continuing west, Harry accepts a ride with a health-food salesman, meets an attractive hooker on his way to [[Las Vegas]] and spends a night in jail with a friendly Indian. He eventually arrives in [[Los Angeles]], where he stays with his youngest son Eddie, a financially strapped real-estate salesman, before finding a place of his own with Tonto.

After Tonto dies, Harry is living alone, making new friends and enjoying the climate. He sees a young cat who looks exactly like Tonto and follows it to the beach, where a child is building a sand castle.