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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