Legendary Route 66 A Journey through Time along America's Mother Road

Packed with more than 600 photographs of the Mother Road's most famous sights, outrageous roadside oddities, classic neon signs, and memorabilia,Legendary Route66offers up a heaping plate full of nostalgia for the heyday of America's Main Street. With Route 66 historians Michael Witzel and Gyvel Witzel-Young serving as tour guides, the journey from east to west introduces you to some of the people who lived through Route 66's glory days-the actress who played Ruthie Joad inThe Grapes of Wrathfilm, a 1950s carhop, a longtime owner of a Native American trading post, and those who stayed in business long enough to see the road's resurgence. Also highlighted is the story of the highway's creation, popularity, and eventual demise. Come along on this trip down memory lane on America's Mother Road.Young-Witzel, Gyvel is the author of 'Legendary Route 66 A Journey through Time along America's Mother Road', published 2007 under ISBN 9780760329788 and ISBN 0760329788.