Postcards From Route 66

Author : Joe Sonderman
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781627882019

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Postcards from Route 66 by Joe Sonderman Pdf

DIVThere is perhaps no better visual record of Route 66’s 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 66’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 Sonderman’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

Author : Joe Sonderman
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780760346112

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Postcards from Route 66 by Joe Sonderman Pdf

DIVThere is perhaps no better visual record of Route 66’s 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 66’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 Sonderman’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

Author : BrownTrout Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1563137887

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Route 66 by BrownTrout Staff Pdf

BrownTrout postcard books are first and foremost beautiful little books. There are over 120 subjects ranging from the sublime (Desert Light) to the slightly ridiculous (Outhouses). Each card is a token which reflects two directions: upon the addressee who receives a beautiful card with the sender's personal message; and on the sender who chose the card for the recipient. Whether you actually send them to friends and relations or simply save the books to enjoy yourself, BrownTrout's books of postcards are great products.

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312100191

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Route 66 Postcards by Michael Wallis Pdf

Author : Joe Sonderman
Publisher : Anniversary Books Srl
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8896408113

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Get Your Pics on Route 66 by Joe Sonderman Pdf

"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.

Author : Shellee Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 1571780645

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Return to Route 66 by Shellee Graham Pdf

Twenty-two postcards of the very best images from an acclaimed collection of photographs celebrating Route 66. Icons of the Mother Road are captured in dazzling color -- some shot just before these artifacts disappeared forever into history.

Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780806156163

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Portrait of Route 66 by T. Lindsay Baker Pdf

By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses. While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes. Portrait of Route 66 lets us see for the first time the actual photographs from which the postcards were made, and in describing how the production process worked, introduces us to an extraordinary archival collection, adding new history to this iconic road. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, held at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois, contains one of the nation’s largest collections of Route 66 images, including thousands of job files for postcards produced by Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. T. Lindsay Baker combed these files to choose the best examples of postcards and their accompanying photographs not only to reflect well-known sites along the route but also to demonstrate the relationships between photographs and their resulting postcards. The photographs show the reality of the locations that customers sometimes wanted "improved" for aesthetic purposes in creating the postcards. Such alterations included removing utility poles or automobile traffic and rendering overcast skies partly cloudy. This book will interest historians of art and design as well as the worldwide audiences of Route 66 aficionados and postcard collectors. For its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780806156156

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Portrait of Route 66 by T. Lindsay Baker Pdf

By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses. While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes. Portrait of Route 66 lets us see for the first time the actual photographs from which the postcards were made, and in describing how the production process worked, introduces us to an extraordinary archival collection, adding new history to this iconic road. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, held at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois, contains one of the nation’s largest collections of Route 66 images, including thousands of job files for postcards produced by Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. T. Lindsay Baker combed these files to choose the best examples of postcards and their accompanying photographs not only to reflect well-known sites along the route but also to demonstrate the relationships between photographs and their resulting postcards. The photographs show the reality of the locations that customers sometimes wanted "improved" for aesthetic purposes in creating the postcards. Such alterations included removing utility poles or automobile traffic and rendering overcast skies partly cloudy. This book will interest historians of art and design as well as the worldwide audiences of Route 66 aficionados and postcard collectors. For its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

Author : Michael Karl Witzel, Gyvel Young-Witzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616731230

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Legendary Route 66 by Michael Karl Witzel, Gyvel Young-Witzel Pdf

It started in the heartland and originally ended in Los Angeles (not, contrary to myth, at the ocean). It carried truckers crossing the country, Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl, vacationers seeking the sun. It was Americas Main Street, the Mother Road, the Will Rogers Highway, and, at its dangerous curves, Bloody 66. Get your kicks on Route 66 with this wonderfully illustrated tribute to the best-loved highway in this car-loving nation. Michael Witzel shares his expertise and wealth of personal, archive, collector, and contributing photographer images in these pages, offering a nostalgic tour of the charms and oddities of this road through American cultural history. Starting in Chicago and running to Santa Monica, this book highlights the sights along the highway with historic and current photos in then-and-now pairings, and includes Route 66 postcards, road signs, trinkets, maps, brochures, and advertisements. Here we see Route 66 as it was in its heyday and as it is now, the neon glamour of yesterday versus the ghost towns of today. Witzel and his wife, Gyvel Young-Witzel, recount the highways history, its role in popular culture, and its demise, as well as the individual stories of famous sights. Several profiles of those with close ties to the Mother Road, including the woman who played Ruthie Joad in the The Grapes of Wrath film, are included.

Author : Voyageur Press
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781610603973

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Greetings from Route 66 by Voyageur Press Pdf

Take the scenic route with this colorful collection of vintage art, photos, history, and trivia celebrating the historic highway. John Steinbeck famously christened Route 66 America’s “Mother Road” in The Grapes of Wrath, and that chapter about Tom Joad’s exodus is just one of the classic pieces collected in this wide-ranging anthology. You’ll find history, roadside attractions, pop culture, ghost stories—even recipes from famous greasy spoons. And it’s all illustrated with the largest collection of vintage art, postcards, travel decals, collectibles, and other Route 66 memorabilia ever amassed. This is truly a worthy tribute to the Main Street of America.

Author : Spencer Crump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Photography
ISBN : IND:30000056119641

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Route 66 by Spencer Crump Pdf

With prose supplementing modern and vintage photographs, the author tells how motorists can still travel over the remnants of Route 66, enjoying beautiful scenery and interesting people.

Author : Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781610589208

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Route 66 Treasures by Jim Hinckley Pdf

DIVAs a longstanding cultural icon and beloved vacation destination, U.S. Route 66’s legendary notoriety continues unabated. In fact, thanks to a corps of preservationists dedicated to keeping nostalgia for the road alive, interest in America’s Main Street is actually growing. But modern 66 enthusiasts aren’t the first to spread the word about the Mother Road—in fact, Route 66 has a rich, decades-long history of advertising behind it./divDIV /divDIVIt’s been more than half a century since Route 66 functioned as a major cross-country thoroughfare, but following its displacement by the U.S. Interstate system in the 1950s, advertising ephemera used to promote Route 66 motels, diners, souvenir shops, and the road itself became highly sought-after collectibles. In Route 66 Treasures, author Jim Hinckley’s unique new look at the road examines it through the lens of those promotional and advertising efforts, going so far as to include 15 pieces of fabulous removable facsimile memorabilia—as among them diner menus, cocktail napkins, paper coasters, window decals, postcards, brochures, and more—each enclosed in its own vellum envelope. Hinckley’s chronological history provides a richly illustrated and thoughtful review of Route 66 promotion through the decades in each of the eight states through which it travels./divDIVAn utterly new look at the Mother Road, Route 66 Treasures offers a rare collectible archive for the growing hordes of 66 enthusiasts./div

Author : Peter B. Dedek
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0826341942

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Hip to the Trip by Peter B. Dedek Pdf

Dedek paints a complex portrait of America's most famous highway.

Author : Terrence Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Postcards
ISBN : 0385278845

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Terrence Moore's Route 66 Postcards by Terrence Moore Pdf

Author : Michael Karl Witzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 1610605004

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Route 66 Remembered by Michael Karl Witzel Pdf

Now available in paperback!!This incredible collection of historical photographs captures the reverence of all the attractions and towns of the Mother Road, Route 66. Noted author Michael Witzel spent years traveling Route 66 collecting mementos of life and folklore that make up the most famous road in America. His unmatched photography takes readers back to the attractions and towns as they were and offers a captivating view of them today. Here it is, the American highway past and present in Motorbooks' beautiful 10 x 10 format, the classic photographic essay of an American legend.