Route 66 in California (Images of America) - Softcover

Duncan, Glen; California Route 66 Preservation Foundation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738530379 ISBN 13: 9780738530376

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0738530379
• ISBN 13: 9780738530376
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128