Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway.(Book review)

From: Journal of Cultural Geography | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway. By Arthur Krim. Santa Fe: Center for American Places, 2005. List of figures, preface, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xix+220 pp. $35.00 hardback. ISBN: 1-930-066-35-X.

Route 66 brings images to mind like no other highway in America. The alliterative number was assigned in 1926 and decommissioned in 1985, serving, in the author's words, as the diagonal "southwest passage" connecting Chicago on Lake Michigan with Los Angeles on the Pacific. Immortalized in song, book, and film, U.S. 66 was, ironically, the only federal highway ...

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