Here’s where you know Jim Ross and Shellee Graham’s new book, “Secret Route 66,” is a success: Not only did they uncover more than a dozen obscure tidbits from the Mother Road that escaped my notice, I jumped into my car to search for one that was nearby. Subtitled “A Guide to the Weird,Wonderful and … Continue reading Book review: “Secret Route 66”
“The 66 Kid” is not your typical memoir. Then again, Bob Boze Bell isn’t a typical fellow. Nearly all memoirs consist of a few hundred typewritten pages with a few dozen black-and-white photos crammed into the center. But Boze, best-known as owner of True West magazine and as a western-themed artist, treats his early life story … Continue reading Book review: “The 66 Kid”
Some may assume Cyrus Avery became known as “The Father of Route 66” simply because he was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time when the highway became designated and federally certified in 1926. But as Susan Croce Kelly’s well-researched new biography shows, Avery’s involvement in Route 66’s birth and … Continue reading Book review: “Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery”
I have bad news and good news about Susan Shillinglaw’s “On Reading The Grapes of Wrath,” a behind-the-scenes look on the writing and marketing of John Steinbeck’s classic and controversial novel that marks its 75th anniversary this year. The bad news is Shillinglaw’s book (paperback, 206 pages, Penguin) delves very little into the Joad family’s journey on Route 66 (“the road … Continue reading Book review: “On Reading The Grapes of Wrath”
A new book from prolific author Jim Hinckley, “Route 66 Treasures” (64 pages, hardback, Voyageur Press, $30 U.S. retail) might seem just a simple collection of facsimile souvenirs from the Mother Road. It is that, but it’s more. Although its 64 pages seem to be a slim book, Hinckley and more than 100 color illustrations … Continue reading Book review: “Route 66 Treasures”
You have to admire the nerve or foolishness of two pals who are so determined to travel old alignments of Route 66 that they get stuck not once, but twice, during their journey. That’s what happens in Rick Antonson’s “Route 66 Still Kicks” (Skyhorse Publishing, paperback, 336 pages, illustrated, e-book available). Although this book is … Continue reading Book review: “Route 66 Still Kicks”
Story and photos by Elrond Lawrence Jim Ross, the accomplished Route 66 writer, cartographer, speaker and photographer, was honored with the 2012 Will Rogers Award at the International Route 66 Festival awards dinner Saturday at the Green Tree Inn in Victorville, Calif. Ross, who has been exploring, mapping, photographing and writing about the Mother Road … Continue reading Jim Ross wins top award at Victorville Route 66 festival
The Road Crew music group won the inaugural Bobby Troup Artistic Award during the 2011 International Route 66 Festival awards banquet Saturday night at the Galleries at Sunset Center in Amarillo, Texas. David Wickline, an author and Route 66-themed restaurant owner, won the Route 66 Roadie Award. And Alan McNeil and his mother, Marianne, were honored … Continue reading The Road Crew wins big award at Route 66 banquet
A final meeting for public comment will be Monday at 5:30 p.m. at Clinton Middle School in west Tulsa about the Route 66 Master Plan: Red Fork Streetscape Improvements, according to Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers. The project area includes Southwest Boulevard between 25th West Avenue and 27th West Avenue. […] Citizens are welcome to comment … Continue reading Notes from the road
In the preface to her new book, Norma Maret Bolin says the purpose of her previous work, “The Route 66 St. Louis Cookbook,” was to raise funds for a more expansive historical recounting of Route 66 in the Gateway City. If you’ll excuse the pun, Bolin really got cooking with her enormous new volume, “Route … Continue reading Book review: “Route 66 St. Louis”
