Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66
A Nonfiction, History book. A scholarly overview of the cultural history of Route 66, the book is comprehensive,...
Before and since its official closure in 1985, historic U.S. 66 became associated with the deserts, Indians, and cowboys of the Southwest, the "Okies" of the Great Depression, and the millions of vacationers who took to the highway in their streamlined automobiles and found adventure on the open road from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Route 66 has such name recognition that in the past twenty years it has been used to advertise products ranging from blue jeans, to root beer, to automobiles.The highway enjoyed only about thirty years of dominance as a primary auto and...
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- Pages: 179 pages
- ISBN: 9780826341945 / 826341942
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"(GET YOUR KICKS) ON ROUTE 66"One of the most iconic and popular roads in the United States, Route 66 connotes images of the old west where one can see places such as the pueblos in New Mexico to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It was the original migration road to California for stagecoaches and railroads and in its heyday used Native... A scholarly overview of the cultural history of Route 66, the book is comprehensive, wide-ranging and engagingly written. While concentrating on the life of the road and its impact on the communities along its length from 1926 to 2006 (the year prior to publication), the author takes care to place that story in a wider and deeper history... meh is what i have to say about this book. it wasn't terrible, but the pages didn't exactly melt away either. dedek tries to capture what rt 66 travlers were thinking while on the road. dedek looks at what brought people to rt 66, where they were going, what they were seeing, why they were traveling, when were they traveling, and how...
