Title: POSTCARDS FROM ROUTE 66:
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION FROM AMERICAS MAIN STREET
Author Joe Sonderman
Binding: Hard Cover
Number of photos:
Book Condition: NEW
Number of pages 304 pages
Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
Publisher: Voyageur Press Inc Published: 15 June 2014
ISBN Number
ISBN 13: 9780760346112
ISBN 10: 0760346119
Availability: IN STOCK
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ABOUT
There is perhaps no better visual record of Route 66s iconic sites than
the thousands of illustrated and photographic postcards that have been
produced over the years to promote the Mother Road's motels, hotels, tourist
traps, trading posts, bustling burgs, greasy spoons, and natural wonders.
This massive collection gathers together more than 400 of the finest
examples of postcard art from Route 66s golden age: the 1930s through
the mid-1960s, an era before long-distance car travel was largely supplanted
by the airlines. Route 66 historian Joe Sonderman has curated the very
best out of his 20,000-card archive to document a journey down the Mother
Road through the decades, state-by-state from east to west.
Visit landmark stops like the Rock Village Court, the Meramec Caverns,
Mule Trading Post, and Wigwam Village in cities that include Chicago, Springfield,
Amarillo, Tucumcari, Flagstaff, Barstow, Santa Monica, and many, many more.
The fruit of Sondermans labor is the definitive book collection of
Route 66 postcards. Postcards from Route 66 is a valuable visual
reference documenting the evolution of the famous highway and its equally
famous roadside stops as well as a historical record of the time period,
complete with many notes both hastily scribbled and thoughtfully composed
by Route 66 travelers through the decades.