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Route 66 in Kansas

By: Joe Sonderman,Cheryl Eichar Jett

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There are only 13.2 miles of Route 66 in Kansas, but the Sunflower State packs in as much history and adventure per mile as any of the eight Route 66 states. Route 66 in Kansas includes the wild tales from the days of "Red Hot Street" and the "First Cowtown in Texas." Blood was spilled here during the Civil War and when workers in the mines fought for their rights. Travelers will meet a beloved character from the motion picture Cars, cross a rare Rainbow Bridge, and see classic scenes along the Main Streets. Kansas was completely bypassed and was not even mentioned in the Bobby Troup song "(Get Your Kicks) on Route 66," but it would be a major mistake to pass it by today. It deserves to be experienced slowly--with the top down and the radio up.

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1439656940

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Route 66 in Missouri

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in Missouri

By: Joe Sonderman

Route 66 is the "Main Street of America," heralded in song and popular culture. It took a maze of different routes through St. Louis before slashing diagonally across the "Show-Me State" through the beauty of the Ozarks. In between, there are classic motels, diners, tourist traps, and gas stations bathed in flashing and whirling neon lights. Natural wonders include crystal-clear streams, majestic bluffs, and wondrous caverns. Roadside marketers concocted legends about Jesse James, painted advertisements on barns, lived with deadly snakes, or offered curios such as pottery and handwoven baskets. That spirit is alive today at the Wagon Wheel and the Munger-Moss, the Mule, Meramec Caverns, and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, just to name a few. Their stories are included here.

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1439666504

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St. Louis

Bridges, Highways, and Roads

By: Joe Sonderman

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St. Louis

Bridges, Highways, and Roads

By: Joe Sonderman

Every street has a story. From the humblest cul-de-sac to the roaring interstates, the roads tell the stories and reveal the character that make each neighborhood unique. St. Louis was born of the great rivers, so its bridges played a crucial role. Together, the names of the roads tell the history of the child of the rivers that became the Gateway to the West. There are the stories behind the French street names pronounced in a uniquely St. Louis manner, the names purged from the map during World War I, and the histories behind the pioneers, politicians, developers, and everyday people who built St. Louis. Here are also the tragic tales of the epic struggle to bridge the great rivers. These photographs, many never published before, will show it all.

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1439659044

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California Dreamin' Along Route 66

By: Joe Sonderman

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California Dreamin' Along Route 66

By: Joe Sonderman

The California Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. Flappers dreamed of stardom under the bright lights of Hollywood. A wave of families fleeing the Dust Bowl transformed the state during the Great Depression. During World War II, another wave followed Route 66 seeking opportunity in the massive wartime industrial plants. Thousands of soldiers trained in the Mojave Desert and then returned amid the postwar prosperity to blossoming housing developments that replaced the vast orange groves. While Nat King Cole sang "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66," the newly prosperous middle class hit the road headed for the dream land constructed by Walt Disney. Inspired by the Beat poets, the hippies, and the adventures of Buz and Tod on the CBS television show Route 66, a new generation took to the open road. Those who savor the journey as much as the destination still seek it out on Route 66 today.

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1439666911

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Route 66 in Arizona

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in Arizona

By: Joe Sonderman

Route 66 in Arizona is a ribbon tying together spectacular natural attractions such as the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert and the Meteor Crater, and Arizona may be the most spectacular state on Route 66, where the visuals are as stunning as the stories behind them. Original.

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0738579424

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Postcards from Route 66

The Ultimate Collection from America's Main Street

By: Joe Sonderman

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Postcards from Route 66

The Ultimate Collection from America's Main Street

By: Joe Sonderman

DIVThere is perhaps no better visual record of Route 66â€™s iconic sites than the thousands of illustrated and photographic postcards that have been produced over the years to promote the Mother Roadâ€™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 66â€™s golden age: the 1930s through the mid-1960s, an era before long-distance car travel was largely supplanted by the airlines./divDIV/divDIVRoute 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./divDIV/divDIVThe fruit of Sondermanâ€™s 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./div

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Voyageur Press

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1627882014

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Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements

By: Joe Sonderman

Seeing this panoply of signs splashed across the pages in Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements is almost as good as taking a road trip! You can get your kicks--and pretty much anything else--on Route 66, provided you see the sign that s advertising it! Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements showcases the colorful history of commercial signage along the Mother Road. From kitschy to classy, this book includes photos of early vintage signs as well as modern signs. The vivid photos are organized according to type of establishment the signs are for, such as roadside attractions, motels, restaurants, businesses of ill repute (bars, strip clubs, etc.), and more. While Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements places emphasis on high-quality visuals, it also includes anecdotes and history about the signs that sprang up along the sides of Route 66. The most famous Route 66 signs get center-stage treatment in the book, with two-page spreads accompanied by detailed text. Such signs include icons like the Blue Swallow in Tucumcari, New Mexico, the Munger Moss in Lebanon, Missouri, the U-Drop Inn at Shamrock, Texas, and the El Vado in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Additional information is included, such as background about buzzing neon lights--how these signs are actually made and how they get restored. Each image from this famous American roadway could be a postcard, so allow yourself to be rubbernecked by Route 66 Signs and Advertisements.

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0760351406

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Route 66 in Texas

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in Texas

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Route 66 stretches across 178 miles and through seven counties in the Texas Panhandle. To a traveler on Interstate 40, the road may seem like an endless expanse, with the horizon interrupted only by the occasional grain elevator. But there is history, scenery, and adventure waiting on Route 66, which follows the trail of the Native Americans, conquistadors, cattle and oil barons, cowboys, and Dust Bowl refugees. With such sites as the blazing neon sign at Shamrock's U-Drop Inn and the quiet ruins of Glenrio, Route 66 in Texas is still "The Main Street of America." The traveler who leaves the franchised blandness of the interstate will see motels with Western and Native American imagery, good old-fashioned tourist traps, some bizarre sculptures (such as cars stuck in the ground at Cadillac Ranch), and beautiful Art Deco structures. These images and stories tell of mom-and-pop establishments that still thrive today and those that are crumbling in the swirling dust and tumbleweeds of the notorious Jericho Gap.

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1467130044

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St. Louis: Bridges, Highways, and Roads

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in New Mexico

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Route 66 in New Mexico

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New Mexico is "The Land of Enchantment," offering a fascinating blend of Native American, Spanish Colonial, and Western American cultures. The travelers from the East knew they had arrived in the great Southwest when they entered New Mexico--the towns along Route 66 were ablaze in neon, and the motels lured travelers with Western themes, Pueblo Revival architecture, and Native American trading posts. An adventure still awaits the traveler today who takes the time to exit I-40 and leave the franchised blandness behind. The neon still flickers at the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, and at the El Rancho Hotel in Gallup. The "Fat Man" still smiles at Joseph's Bar and Grill in Santa Rosa. The stories behind those landmarks are here, as well as the stories behind establishments that are lost forever or slowly crumbling to dust among the tumbleweeds.

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0738580295

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Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks

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Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks picks up the journey west where its companion book, Route 66 in St. Louis, leaves off. As Bobby Troup's song says, Route 66 travels "more than 2,000 miles all the way." But one would be hard-pressed to "Show Me" a more scenic and historic segment than the Missouri Ozarks. The highway is lined with buildings covered with distinctive Ozark rock. It winds through a region of deep forests, sparkling streams, hidden caves, and spectacular bluffs. This book will take the traveler from Crawford County to the Kansas line. Along the way, there are small towns and urban centers, hotels and motels, cafés and souvenir stands. Take the time to explore Missouri's Route 66--it is waiting at the next exit.

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Route 66 in St. Louis

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in St. Louis

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In 1926, highway planners laid out a ribbon of roadways connecting the nation. One of the most important wove its way across eight states, from the cities of the heartland to golden California. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck calls it "the Mother Road." Route 66 has become a legend, celebrated in books, movies, works of art, and popular music. The interstates could not kill it. As "the Main Street of America," Route 66 had to pass through "the Gateway to the West," St. Louis. Crossing the Mississippi River, the road took many different paths through the busy city and then united to travel into the rolling hills of the Ozarks. Along the way there were mom-and-pop motels, tourist traps, roadside restaurants, a man selling frozen custard, one living with snakes, and another who claimed to be Jesse James. Their stories are here.

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073855216X

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Route 66 in Arizona

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in Arizona

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St. Louis

The 1904 World's Fair

By: Joe Sonderman,Mike Truax

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St. Louis

The 1904 World's Fair

By: Joe Sonderman,Mike Truax

Contains captioned, archival photographs that trace the history of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, from the groundbreaking to the closing ceremonies.

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Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements

By: Joe Sonderman

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Get Your Pics on Route 66

Postcards from America's Mother Road

By: Joe Sonderman

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Get Your Pics on Route 66

Postcards from America's Mother Road

By: Joe Sonderman

Route 66, as the famous song goes, through the United States "from Chicago to LA" is the best expression of the American dream on the road. In this book, designed by Anniversary Books with one of the most important American collectors of memories of Route 66, you can review the years of its greatest splendor the way defined America's Mother Road by John Steinbeck, in the fifties and sixties, before being supplanted by modern interstate highways, was this the main artery of the connections between east and west, was running in the middle of the countries of deep - including Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona-segnandone, with its passage, architectural and economic development and contributing to assert another American myths, the motel, which costellava the edges with colorful neon signs and fantastic shapes. This book is a tribute to one of America's symbols of the twentieth century and offers continual references to the influence of literature, music and film that both have the myth of Route 66"--Publisher's website.

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8896408113

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Route 66 in Missouri

By: Joe Sonderman

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Postcards from Route 66

The Ultimate Collection from America's Main Street

By: Joe Sonderman

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California Dreamin' Along Route 66

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in Texas

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 in Texas

By: Joe Sonderman

Route 66 stretches across 178 miles and through seven counties in the Texas Panhandle. To a traveler on Interstate 40, the road may seem like an endless expanse, with the horizon interrupted only by the occasional grain elevator. But there is history, scenery, and adventure waiting on Route 66, which follows the trail of the Native Americans, conquistadors, cattle and oil barons, cowboys, and Dust Bowl refugees. With such sites as the blazing neon sign at Shamrocks U-Drop Inn and the quiet ruins of Glenrio, Route 66 in Texas is still The Main Street of America. The traveler who leaves the franchised blandness of the interstate will see motels with Western and Native American imagery, good old-fashioned tourist traps, some bizarre sculptures (such as cars stuck in the ground at Cadillac Ranch), and beautiful Art Deco structures. These images and stories tell of mom-and-pop establishments that still thrive today and those that are crumbling in the swirling dust and tumbleweeds of the notorious Jericho Gap.

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Route 66 in Kansas

By: Joe Sonderman,Cheryl Eichar Jett

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By: Joe Sonderman,Cheryl Eichar Jett

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Route 66 Then and Now®

By: Joe Sonderman

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Route 66 Then and Now®

By: Joe Sonderman

The ‘Mother Road’ or the ‘Will Rogers Highway’ has been open since 1926. Its heyday was the WWII and post-war era and many roadside structures sprang up to cater for the "tin-can tourists" making the journey from East to West. Gas stations, motels, and diners all had to compete for business and what better way to attract attention than with a wacky feature such as a wigwam motel, an iceberg cafe, or a whale-themed diner.Route 66 Then and Now revisits some of these bizarre (and not-so-bizarre) structures to see what’s left before time takes its toll. Some, such as the Magnolia Service Station in Kansas, have been preserved on the National Historic Register; others, such as the Aztec Motel in Albuquerque, are still doing a thriving business; while others have simpy vanished from the landscape.Starting in Chicago, Route 66 Then and Now takes in the motels, cafes, gas stations, roadside attractions and key towns and sites along the route. From the Blue Whale in Catoosa, past Angel Delgadillo’s store in Seligman, Arizona, to the end point in Santa Monica, Route 66 historian Joe Sonderman takes readers on the 2,500-mile trip, illustrated by his fabulous postcard collection.Includes: Illinois: Chicago, Joliet, Dwight, Pontiac, Logan County. Missouri: St. Louis, Lebanon, Springfield, Joplin. Kansas: Galena, Baxter Springs. Oklahoma: Catoosa, Tulsa, Sayre. Texas:Shamrock, Amarillo, Glenrio. New Mexico: Santo Domingo, Gravel Hill, Albuquerque. Arizona: Holbrook, Winslow, Two Guns, Flagstaff, Seligman, Kingman. California: Needles, Amboy, Barstow, Cajon Pass, San Bernadino, Pasadena, Santa Monica.

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Rizzoli Publications

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1911595571

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Las Vegas 365

By: Joe Sonderman

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Las Vegas 365

By: Joe Sonderman

Las Vegas 365 takes a light hearted approach to the history of Las Vegas, presenting the unusual stories and shedding light on the legends of Glitter Gulch day by fascinating day. It's concise and breezy style makes it easy to absorb 100 years of the wild history of this incredible city. Inside this book, readers will find more than one thousand news items that tell the amazing stories of the visionaries, entertainers, bad guys, and good guys who made Las Vegas the entertainment capital of the world. Of course, there are stories about Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Steve Wynn, Liberace, and Bugsy Siegal. But, Las Vegas 365 also tells the tales of the lesser known, but improtant people who turned this dusty water hole in the desert into a thriving city of more than two million people.

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1932860045

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Chicago 365

Intriguing Events from Each Day of the Year

By: Joe Sonderman

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Chicago 365

Intriguing Events from Each Day of the Year

By: Joe Sonderman

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.- H.L. MenckenCompared to New York, London, Paris or other great cities of the world, Chicago has a short history. But this city has packed more into it first two centuries than any other. Chicago 365 is an easy-to-read, day-by-day chronicle of the stories of this shining city that rose from a swamp. In these pages, you will read about the gangsters, the politicians, the explorers, the artists, the heroes, and the everyday people who made Chicago the exciting and intriguing city that it is today.Chicago 365 includes more than just facts, figures and dates. Joe Sonderman spent years searching for the unusual, compelling or just plain silly events from the days of Fort Dearborn to the opening of Millennium Park. Chicago 365 includes stories about pop culture, movies, music, television, and historic and recent events that are a part of the lore of this great city. Within these pages you will also find entertaining information about our suburban communities, street names, sports teams, urban legends, and more.You dont have to be a history buff to enjoy this book. If you enjoy Chicago, you will find something interesting, entertaining and informative on each page of Chicago 365.

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1932860029

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Miles O'Smiles

By: Joe Homan

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Miles O'Smiles

By: Joe Homan

With forty eight Transistor radios in his suitcase, Joe, an Englishman, lands at Trichy Airport in the summer of 1965. The Custom's officer confronts him, but on hearing about Joe's mission, lets him go scot-free!

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1908645113

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