It is an icon of epic proportions that lures travelers from throughout the world to come experience American life as it once was and to seek the roadside ghosts from an era when Studebakers still rolled from the factory in South Bend. ICONIC ROUTE 66 is more than a mere highway that connects a metropolis on the shore of Lake Michigan with a metropolis on the Pacific coast. To Julie Ann Quarry, who made the miles less lonely and the route traveled never far from her heart and smile. To the one who has been my source of encouragement and inspiration for more than two decades, my dearest friend, my wife. Sun lights the front of a stone building in Afton, Oklahoma. While a very attractive book, I don't think of it as one that is necessarily about the pictures first and the text second (as many coffee table books tend to be), in fact, I would say the text is actually the key to the book while the pictures help to create a more rounded experience.Definitely recommend to anyone interested in Americana as well as those who remember the time when it was a major road.Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. These types of national memories are priceless.This book highlights both how things were as well as how things are now, so while we visit and see the empty and broken remnants, we also read a little about how these towns flourished. Just about everyone from that time period has a "street corner in Winslow Arizona" story, and a friend of mine called me in 1998 when he was traveling just to use that line. Fond memories, many of which this book brought back to me. But it was always an interesting trip and it wasn't until the late 70s that I made my first trip as a driver on the road. When we visited northern family we used all or most of the highway, when we visited southern family, we usually just used the western part of the highway. My family vacations were spent in a car going from family home to family home, with the two constants being Maryland and California (Van Nuys specifically).
Ghost Towns of Route 66: The Forgotten Places Along America's Famous Highway by Jim Hinckley is a nostalgic yet sad trip through the past along a largely forgotten (as far as use goes) highway.I remember many trips along Route 66 between about 19, some years more of the road, some less.
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