Author: Jack D. Rittenhouse
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826311481
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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A mile-by-mile guide to sites and services along the entire length of Route 66.

Author: Joe Sonderman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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In 1926, highway planners laid out a ribbon of roadways connecting the nation. One of the most important wove its way across eight states, from the cities of the heartland to golden California. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck calls it "the Mother Road." Route 66 has become a legend, celebrated in books, movies, works of art, and popular music. The interstates could not kill it. As "the Main Street of America," Route 66 had to pass through "the Gateway to the West," St. Louis. Crossing the Mississippi River, the road took many different paths through the busy city and then united to travel into the rolling hills of the Ozarks. Along the way there were mom-and-pop motels, tourist traps, roadside restaurants, a man selling frozen custard, one living with snakes, and another who claimed to be Jesse James. Their stories are here.

Author: Norma Maret Bolin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982323915
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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A history of the businesses that sprung up along Highway 66 in the St. Louis area.

Author: Joseph R. Sonderman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467160571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Parent ROADTRIPPERS
Publisher: Roadtrippers
ISBN: 9781649010001
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This guide to road-tripping along Route 66 presents the highway's very best stops--and it's the only guidebook with a fully integrated app.

Author: Joe Sonderman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467102660
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1

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Route 66 is the "Main Street of America," heralded in song and popular culture. It took a maze of different routes through St. Louis before slashing diagonally across the "Show-Me State" through the beauty of the Ozarks. In between, there are classic motels, diners, tourist traps, and gas stations bathed in flashing and whirling neon lights. Natural wonders include crystal-clear streams, majestic bluffs, and wondrous caverns. Roadside marketers concocted legends about Jesse James, painted advertisements on barns, lived with deadly snakes, or offered curios such as pottery and handwoven baskets. That spirit is alive today at the Wagon Wheel and the Munger-Moss, the Mule, Meramec Caverns, and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, just to name a few. Their stories are included here.

Author: Kip Welborn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Louis Metropolitan Area (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Author: Norma Maret Bolin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982323922
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312082851
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Tells the story of the legendary road, Route 66, begun in the early 1920s that covered 2400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Author: Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096878
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.