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This book gives a great insight into the history of Route 66 and what you will encounter as you travel the road today - starting in Chicago, Illinois and ending in Santa Monica, California. The book was published in 2001 so some things have changed.
US Highway 66, created in 1926 and better known as Route 66 or “the Mother Road,” became one of the most culturally influential roads in the United States—“Main Street” for many small communities that had never been connected by a highway to the wider nation.
Route 66: The Mother Road. The historian and journalist Michael Wallis is a reference and a source of knowledge on Route 66's history. Moreover, it was him that Pixar addressed in search of inspiration for its animated film "Cars", whose main plot takes place along the Mother Road. Wallis played a central role in the film script - he ended up ...
The definitive book on the most famous road in American history-- now published in paperback to celebrate the highway's 66th anniversary. It began in the early 1920s with a vision...
Steinbeck wrote: "66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land … 66 is the mother road, the road of flight." VOICE TWO: In nineteen...
Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers...
Route 66 was the road of dreamers and ramblers, drifters and writers, the road of John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac. After 17 years of research, Wallis presents the definitive...
