Route 66 Remembered | Michael Karl Witzel | I got my kicks with Route 66 Remembered

Route 66 Remembered | Michael Karl Witzel | Driving the Old Mother Road

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Route 66 Remembered

	Route 66 Remembered Michael Karl Witzel Motorbooks International, 1996 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Interstates have largely replaced the old Route 66, "the Mother Road" that was the main connector between Chicago and Los Angeles for so many years. In this richly illustrated portrait of the old route, Witzel showcases an amazing variety of diners, motels, roadside attractions, and pictureesque scenery, plus historical photos, contemporary shots of now defunct locations, and period ads. 200 photos, 125 in color.

I got my kicks with Route 66 Remembered

This book isn't a travel guide or a map-style publication, but a really cool scrapbook of the Mother Road. Witzel's sidebars on interesting segments of road culture are fascinating. The photography is great, too. Unlike a lot of the other 66 books, this one is divided up into chapters on gas stations, motels, restaurants, and other roadside attractions. The final chapter, "Mother Road Memories," recounts the true tales of people who actually took the trip down 66 and really takes you back to the way it used to be when traveling across country. Of all the roadside books I have in my library, I would highly recommend this treasure. It's one of Witzel's best ......

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Driving the Old Mother Road

I got this book before going on a trip down 66, along with a few others. I loved it. I had a lot of the people I met along the way sign the book and once in a while, got some of the owners of restaurants, gas stations, roadside attractions, and diners featured in the book to sign it. What a wonderful scrapbook to have of one of the last great American road trips!

The book is a trip down Route 66!

This is a great book, and not just a rehash of other Route 66 material that's already out there.

Nice pictures but not much use in planning a trip.

When I bought this book I was looking for help planning a Route 66 trip. While it hasn't really served that purpose, it has provided pages of nice pictures and some degree of inspiration to get on the road. Maybe I'll like the book even more once I've completed the trip and want to take an occassional look back.

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