The Complete Route 66 Lost & Found

About this book

Now Russell Olsens best-selling collections featuring Route 66 filling stations main streets motor courts cafs campgrounds honky-tonks truck stops and barbecue joints as they appeared both in their heyday and today is available in one package. For more than 30 years Route 66 was Americas main east-west artery pointing the nation toward all the promise that California represented. To serve these travelers Route 66 boasted bustling commercial hubs many of which remain today many more of which crumbled long ago. All of the sites included here150 in allare shown both during their mid-century heydays and as they appear today. Taken together the marvelous visual and descriptive elements assembled hereperiod postcards and imagery specially commissioned maps and Olsens own photography and capsule histories of the sites featuredcomprise a unique state-by-state look back at Americas Main Street.