The Mother Road at 100: A meditation

ROUTE 66 RAMBLE REDUX, PART 1: TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
  • RESTORED IN 2003 with bright green and red neon-light accents, the U-Drop Inn / Conoco Tower in Shamrock, Texas, turns 90 years old this year.
    RESTORED IN 2003 with bright green and red neon-light accents, the U-Drop Inn / Conoco Tower in Shamrock, Texas, turns 90 years old this year.
    YOU MAY RECALL that in summer 2024 your intrepid newspaper editors hit the road for a weeks-long exploration from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California. Across ten installments we shared with you our impressions of what made America tick, what made its regions similar and what made them different. Eventually that series of stories found their way into a book, stitched ...

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