Route 66 Still Kicks
Driving America's Main Street
Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
| Author: | Rick Antonson | ISBN: | 9781620875551 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing | Publication: | August 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Skyhorse Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rick Antonson |
| ISBN: | 9781620875551 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Publication: | August 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Language: | English |
Two friends drive the renowned old highway in this “winning mixture of travelogue and history” (Booklist).
“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a truck driver in California once said to author Rick Antonson. “It’s the most famous highway in the world.”
With some determination, grit, and a good sense of direction, one can still find and drive on 90 percent of the original Route 66 today. This memoir follows Rick and his travel companion along 2,400 miles, through eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles, as they discover the old Route 66.
With surprising and obscure stories about Route 66 personalities like Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Al Capone, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Lange, Cyrus Avery (the Father of Route 66), the Harvey Girls, Mickey Mantle, and Bobby Troup (songwriter of “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”), Antonson’s fresh perspective reads like an easy drive down a forgotten road: winding, stopping now and then to mingle with the locals and reminisce about times gone by, and then getting stuck in the mud, sucked into its charms. Route 66 Still Kicks mixes hilarious anecdotes of happenstance travel with the route’s difficult history, its rise and fall in popularity, and above all, its place in legend.
“Luminous . . . A must for Route 66 aficionados.” —Chicago Tribune
The author has committed part of his book’s proceeds to the preservation work of the National Route 66 Federation.
Two friends drive the renowned old highway in this “winning mixture of travelogue and history” (Booklist).
“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a truck driver in California once said to author Rick Antonson. “It’s the most famous highway in the world.”
With some determination, grit, and a good sense of direction, one can still find and drive on 90 percent of the original Route 66 today. This memoir follows Rick and his travel companion along 2,400 miles, through eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles, as they discover the old Route 66.
With surprising and obscure stories about Route 66 personalities like Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Al Capone, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Lange, Cyrus Avery (the Father of Route 66), the Harvey Girls, Mickey Mantle, and Bobby Troup (songwriter of “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”), Antonson’s fresh perspective reads like an easy drive down a forgotten road: winding, stopping now and then to mingle with the locals and reminisce about times gone by, and then getting stuck in the mud, sucked into its charms. Route 66 Still Kicks mixes hilarious anecdotes of happenstance travel with the route’s difficult history, its rise and fall in popularity, and above all, its place in legend.
“Luminous . . . A must for Route 66 aficionados.” —Chicago Tribune
The author has committed part of his book’s proceeds to the preservation work of the National Route 66 Federation.
