Publicado por Norman & London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0806122919 ISBN 13: 9780806122915
Librería: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 4th printing. Small, square quarto in stiff paper cover. B&W photographs. Condition: corners slightly bumped; else near fine. Pages: xiv, 210.
Publicado por University of Oklahoma PressBIOGRAP, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 10: 0806122919 ISBN 13: 9780806122915
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition Second Printing. 910 Pages Indexed. No defects noted. No marks or stamps. Interior text pages are flawless.Sixty-three original photographs strikingly reproduced as black-and-silver duotones. The appeal of this book lies in the graceful way it explores the impact of that long black ribbon on the lives of the people who lived beside it and in the book's explanation of how U.S. 66 became a highway the country could not forget. Today, as the text and photographs emphasize, there's not much left besides the legend. The two-lane blacktop has crumbled and most of the people who lived beside the old road have moved away or died. But while the new interstates are faster and safer, it is impossible not to miss old Route 66. The words and pictures of this delightful book preserve the memories of a road that ran through everyone's life. Those who severd its travelers for nearly 50 years selling Indian artifiacts, hamburgs, and chunks of petrified wood, or renting rooms, patching tires, and digging the wounded out of head-on collisions offer memories both enthusiastic and touching. The authors spent several years traveling the route from end to end, interviewing and photographing the people and structures that gave old 66 its flavor The text is carefully researched and well writen, and provide convincing images of ordinary people and places lacking the glamour of those at either end of that 2200 mile long line. Contents in 8 Chapters: Birth, Paving, Business and Ballyhoo, Dust Bowl, Wartime Photographic Essay, Boomtime, Highway Hype, and Interstate. Plus Notes, Selected Bibliiography and Asknowledgments.