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Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway
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  • Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway
  • Written by author Arthur Krim
  • Published by Center for American Places, Incorporated, May 2006
  • Route 66 was the iconic highway of twentieth-century America, stretching from Chicago and Chicago and the Mississippi River basin to Los Angeles and the Pacific coast, and it connected Americans not only physically but also culturally as an enduring symbo
  • Route 66 was the iconic highway of twentieth-century America, stretching from Chicago and Chicago and the Mississippi River basin to Los Angeles and the Pacific coast, and it connected Americans not only physically but also culturally as an enduring symbo
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Authors

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction:  Highway Icon

     Iconography

     Physical Setting

 

Part I

Before the Fact: The Route in the Mind

 

CHAPTER ONE: PREFIGURED PATHWAY

Clovis and Folsom Occupation of the Southern High Plains

Chaco and Cahokia

Spanish and French

Santa Fe Trail

 

CHAPTER TWO: THIRTY-FIFTH PARALLEL ROUTE

Benton and Fremont

California Gold

Simpson and Sitgreaves

Gwin and Kern

Beale Wagon Road

South-West Branch

Chicago Pullmans

 

CHAPTER THREE: CONSTRUCTING THE ROUTE AS A RAILROAD

Palmer and Greenwood

Santa Fe Railroad

Lewis Kingman

William Hood

Grand Canyon

Indian Territory

Rock Island Line

 

Part II

From Idea to Fact:  Putting Route 66 on the Ground

 

CHAPTER FOUR:  NATIONAL AUTO TRAILS

Automobiling

New York to Paris

Sixty-Second Mile

Sunset Trail

Ocean-to-Ocean Highway

National Old Trails Road

Ozark Trails Association

 

CHAPTER FIVE: ROUTE NUMBER 66

Federal Roads

Federal Route Numbers

Shield Signs

Final Numbering

Kentucky Objections

Number 66

U.S. Highway 66

Final Numbering

Resignations

Numbered Legacy

 

CHAPTER SIX: MAIN STREET HIGHWAY

Highway 66 Association

Bunion Derby

Phillips 66

LosAngeles Olympics

 

CHAPTER SEVEN: DUST BOWL HIGHWAY 83

Black Sunday

Pare Lorentz

Dorothea Lange

Sallisaw

On U.S. 66

Postscript

 

Part III

From Fact to Symbol:  The Route 66 of Our Imagination

 

CHAPTER EIGHT:  MOTHER ROAD

Salinas

Harvest Gypsies

Oklahoma Trip

The Oklahomans

Sallisaw

Highway 66

The Grapes of Wrath

Die Route 66

Ikari No Budo

 

CHAPTER NINE: FILMING HIGHWAY 66

Daryl Zanuck

Nunnally Johnson

Otto Brower

Joad Family Trek

Woodie Guthrie

 

CHAPTER TEN:  (GET YOUR KICK ON) ROUTE SIXTY-SIX!

Jack Rittenhouse

Bobby Troup

Howard Johnson's

Get Your Kicks

Nat King Cole

Capitol Sessions

Song Map

Christmas Song

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN:  INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS

Highway 66 Association

Postcard Motels

Turner Turnpike

Magic Motorways

Interstate Highways

Interstate Numbering

Interstate 66

Route 66 is Dead! Long Live Route 66!

 

CHAPTER TWELVE: ROCK AND ROLL

On the Road

The Searchers

Route 66

Chuck Berry

The Rolling Stones

Route 66

Them

 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:  POP ART HIGHWAY

Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Easy Rider

Cadillac Ranch

Micro-Soft

 

CHAPTER FOURTEEN:  MAGICAL ROAD

Chicago Signs

Williams, Arizona

Magical Road

 

CHAPTER FIFTEEN:  HIGHWAY ICON REVISITED

Imaginary Lines and Magical Numbers

Auto River

Western Highway

Brief Moments

Postwar Memory

 

NOTES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE EDITOR


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