The Mother Road hauled it all, traversing the American West from Chicago to Santa Monica Beach, the last 350 miles through Southern California. For settlers, Depression-era Okies and Arkies, and post-World War II families bound for suburbia, Route 66 was a migration funnel for generations. Wending through the mountains and badlands of San Bernardino County into Los Angeles County, Route 66 became a state of mind and a catchphrase for travelers everywhere, especially after singer Bobby Troupe popularized the hit song (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 and actors Martin Milner and George Maharis hit the road with the ragtop down and the shades on in the namesake television series that seemed to go anywhere every week. The shield of the Route 66 sign has become iconography for the growth of Southern California's economy, population, popularity, and folklore.
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Author Glen Duncan, with the help of Jim Conkle of the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation, has compiled this tour along California's part of the two-lane corridor that Will Rogers called Main Street America. With fascinating archival photographs gathered from many museum, library, and governmental collections, and current images of what still exists, they have created a mosaic of transportation, tourism, and wayside heritage along a blacktop ribbon that has been seminal to the American idea of the road as poetry.
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Excellent Book! Great Photos of History,
This review is from: Route 66 in California (Images of America: California) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)
This was an exceptional buy! I've enjoyed it over and over again, looking at the pictures of the "OLD HIGHWAY". Brings back memories. I suggest it to everyone!
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The photography and the caption writing in this book are the best -- very well documented and researched. But I would have liked to see more maps of various Route 66 alignments and more of the history of building and traveling the highway itself. Still, the book is worth the money. I'm glad that I bought it.
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I love all the images of America series. Living on route 66 I found this book particulary interesting, and I gathered info not previously known to me. For anyone whose traveled the Mother Road or wants to, this book is a must have.
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Los Angeles Public Library, Courtesy Security Pacific Collection, Santa Monica, California Route, Courtesy Mojave River Valley Museum, Courtesy Glen Duncan, Preservation Foundation, San Bernardino, Southern California, Corridor Preservation Program, Courtesy Route, National Park Service, Arroyo Seco, South Pasadena, Courtesy Herald-Examiner Collection, Cajon Pass, Courtesy Vivian Davies, Will Rogers, Mother Road, America's Main Street, Colorado Boulevard, Courtesy Pasadena Museum of History Archives, Courtesy Victorville Route, Foothill Boulevard, Ocean Park New!
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Los Angeles Public Library, Courtesy Security Pacific Collection, Santa Monica, California Route, Courtesy Mojave River Valley Museum, Courtesy Glen Duncan, Preservation Foundation, San Bernardino, Southern California, Corridor Preservation Program, Courtesy Route, National Park Service, Arroyo Seco, South Pasadena, Courtesy Herald-Examiner Collection, Cajon Pass, Courtesy Vivian Davies, Will Rogers, Mother Road, America's Main Street, Colorado Boulevard, Courtesy Pasadena Museum of History Archives, Courtesy Victorville Route, Foothill Boulevard, Ocean Park New!
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- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck in Front Matter, page 27, and page 106
- Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck in Front Matter, and page 106
- San Bernardino County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 20, and page 46
- San Gabriel Valley by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 45, and page 79
- San Bernardino Mountains (Explore! Guide Maps) by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 45
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