A Guide Book to Highway 66
Author: Jack DeVere Rittenhouse
Publisher:
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
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Roadtrippers Route 66
Author: Parent ROADTRIPPERS
Publisher: Roadtrippers
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781649010001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide to road-tripping along Route 66 presents the highway's very best stops--and it's the only guidebook with a fully integrated app.
Route 66 in Missouri
Author: Joe Sonderman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 1467102660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoute 66 is the "Main Street of America," heralded in song and popular culture. It took a maze of different routes through St. Louis before slashing diagonally across the "Show-Me State" through the beauty of the Ozarks. In between, there are classic motels, diners, tourist traps, and gas stations bathed in flashing and whirling neon lights. Natural wonders include crystal-clear streams, majestic bluffs, and wondrous caverns. Roadside marketers concocted legends about Jesse James, painted advertisements on barns, lived with deadly snakes, or offered curios such as pottery and handwoven baskets. That spirit is alive today at the Wagon Wheel and the Munger-Moss, the Mule, Meramec Caverns, and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, just to name a few. Their stories are included here.
Route 66 in St. Louis
Author: Joe Sonderman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738552163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1926, highway planners laid out a ribbon of roadways connecting the nation. One of the most important wove its way across eight states, from the cities of the heartland to golden California. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck calls it "the Mother Road." Route 66 has become a legend, celebrated in books, movies, works of art, and popular music. The interstates could not kill it. As "the Main Street of America," Route 66 had to pass through "the Gateway to the West," St. Louis. Crossing the Mississippi River, the road took many different paths through the busy city and then united to travel into the rolling hills of the Ozarks. Along the way there were mom-and-pop motels, tourist traps, roadside restaurants, a man selling frozen custard, one living with snakes, and another who claimed to be Jesse James. Their stories are here.
The Route 66 St. Louis Cookbook
Author: Norma Maret Bolin
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780982323922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoute 66 in Madison County
Author: Cheryl Eichar Jett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738583853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoute 66 zigzagged southwest across Madison County, Illinois, before crossing the Mississippi River into Missouri. Various alignments of this segment of the "Mother Road" rolled through pastoral farmland, headed down main streets, and later straightened as it bypassed towns. From 1926 to 1977, the path of the highway changed numerous times and crossed the Mississippi River on no less than five different bridges. Along the way motorists watched for the blue neon cross on St. Paul's Lutheran Church to guide their nighttime travel; they counted on the doors of the Tourist Haven, Cathcart's, or the Luna CafAA(c) to be open for business. Travelers crossed their fingers that they wouldn't get stuck at the bend of the Chain of Rocks Bridge and hoped they could make it up Mooney Hill in the winter. A later alignment took motorists right by Fairmount Park and Monks Mound.
Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks
Author: Joe Sonderman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738560304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoute 66 in the Missouri Ozarks picks up the journey west where its companion book, Route 66 in St. Louis, leaves off. As Bobby Troup's song says, Route 66 travels "more than 2,000 miles all the way." But one would be hard-pressed to "Show Me" a more scenic and historic segment than the Missouri Ozarks. The highway is lined with buildings covered with distinctive Ozark rock. It winds through a region of deep forests, sparkling streams, hidden caves, and spectacular bluffs. This book will take the traveler from Crawford County to the Kansas line. Along the way, there are small towns and urban centers, hotels and motels, cafés and souvenir stands. Take the time to explore Missouri's Route 66--it is waiting at the next exit.
Route 66
Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0312082851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of the legendary road, Route 66, begun in the early 1920s that covered 2400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Midwest Maize
Author: Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-02-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0252096878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
Illinois Haunted Route 66
Author: Janice Tremeear
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1625847300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere’s no detour from terror on this creepy thrill ride down part of America’s historic highway—from the author of Haunted Ozarks. Route 66 is no longer the main thoroughfare between Chicago and St. Louis, but if local lore is to be believed, ghostly traffic along the Mother Road continues unabated. Janice Tremeear chases down accounts of a man executed for witchcraft, the demon baby of Hull House, and the secrets of H. H. Holmes’s “Murder Castle.” Native American legends place the piasa bird in the skies above the highway’s southern stretch with the same insistence that characterize contemporary UFO sightings in the North. In between, spirits such as Resurrection Mary join the throng of hapless souls wandering the roadside of the Prairie State’s most famous byway.
