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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.
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.
Author: Jack DeVere Rittenhouse
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Krim
Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938086168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the J. B. Jackson Prize for the Best Book in Cultural Geography!
Author: Rick Antonson
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-06-23
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1459704371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the stories of one of Canada's most enthusiastic travellers explore the famous American highway that inspired the likes of Al Capone, Salvador Dali, Mickey Mantle, and the countless fans of this iconic American landmark.
Author: Quinta Scott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780806133836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was the way out. Invented on the cusp of the depression, Route 66 was the road out of the mines, off the farm, away from troubled Main Street. It was the road to opportunity. Between 1926 and 1956, many people from the southern and plains states trekked west to California on Route 66, the Mother Road. Some never reached California. Instead, they settled along the road, building restaurants, tourist attractions, gas stations, and motels. The architecture of each structure reflected regional building traditions and the difficulties of the times. The designs of buildings and signs served as invitations for passing travelers to stop, fill their tanks, have a bite, and stay the night. Along Route 66 describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built them, lived in them, and made a living from them. With striking black-and-white images and unforgettable oral histories of this rapidly disappearing architecture, Quinta Scott has docomented the culture of America’s most famous road.
Author: Jim Hinckley
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2008-10-15
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1616731923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet off the beaten path and explore the hidden-gem destinations within a few hours of the Mother Road! Includes numerous photos and illustrations. Known as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road, US Route 66 is the nation’s best-known highway. This lavishly illustrated book steers you from Chicago to Los Angeles, traveling through the lowlands of the American Plains and the high plateaus of New Mexico and Arizona, from the Great Lakes to the mighty Pacific Ocean, and through major metropolises and remote country towns. Best of all, it lets you branch away from the Mother Road and encounter gems hidden beyond today’s standard motels and tourist traps—the quaint frontier communities that date back to the nation’s westward expansion; the legacy of ancient native cultures; and the awe-inspiring natural wonders that have graced these lands since time immemorial. State parks, wildlife refuges, museums, historic sites, literary landmarks, and much more are there to be explored within a few hours’ drive from the path of Route 66. The fifty trips included here offer new travel opportunities for the thousands of road-trippers who follow this legendary route, looking for something more. “The road and this book recall a time before franchise restaurants and chain motels choked America’s highways . . . the guide consists of 50 driving tours, which include plenty of side trips.” —Arizona Republic
Author: Tom Snyder
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-03-17
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312254179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully revised and expanded New stories-more details -Nearly 30 feet of strip maps -350 towns and attractions -More highway memorabilia -Mini-tours-rentals-discounts -Chicago-L.A. mileage table
Author: Shing Yin Khor
Publisher: Zest Books
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1942186371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.
Author: Jim Hinckley
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0760369690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhost Towns of Route 66 guides you through more than 25 fascinating ghost towns along America's Main Street-Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley fills you in on their rich history and the photography of Kerrick James brings their haunting beauty to life.
