Legendary Route 66: A Journey Through Time Along America's Mother Road


Jim Ross is the author of Oklahoma Route 66, publisher of the acclaimed Here It Is! The Route 66 Map Series, and co-founder of American Road Magazine. In 2001 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame.		Take a sneak peek inside the pages of Legendary Route 66: A Journey Through Time Along America's Mother Road. Experience the myth and magic of the uniquely American highway known as the "Mother Road."

With the Route 66 scrapbooks as your time machine, take a nostalgic trip back into the past. You don't need a ticket—just a sense of curiosity for the customs of the travelers who blazed the trails before you.		Experience an eclectic sampling of the American icons, symbols that embody the imagery of old Route 66 and rekindle the memories of cross country vacations and the boundless adventure of the open road.

Route 66 is a highway defined by the people, places, and personalities and that live and work along it path. "Come on inside" and meet some of the road's most memorable characters—past and present.		Throw your suitcase in the trunk, drop the top on the convertible, and slip on your Wayfarers. Let's hit the road with a wonderful collection of memorabilia, postcards, historical photos, and other images.

Legendary Route 66: A Journey Through Time Along America's Mother Road is an amazing homage to the historic American highway called Route 66. Through an unprecedented collection of never-before-seen color and black and white images, follow the evolution of Route 66 from the early days of the trails to the era of the superhighway bypass.

Along the way, you'll meet the legends that breathed life into the road and will discover why this fabled highway is more than just another road. Experience the sights along the Mother Road with historic and current photos in then-and-now pairings, vintage postcards, road signs, nostalgic scrapbook pages, trinkets, maps, brochures, and advertisements.

The Witzels share a wealth of personal, archive, collector, and contributing photographer images in these pages, offering a nostalgic tour of the charms and oddities of this legendary road through American cultural history.

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