Hip to the Trip | 109.14 MB
Title: Hip to the Trip
Author: Peter B. Dedek
Category: History, Sociology, Travel, Nonfiction
Language: English | 289 Pages | ISBN: 082636943X
Description:
This fully revised and updated edition of Peter B. Dedek’s classic is a thorough dive into the history and current delights of America’s Road in time for its 100th birthday!
In 2026, Route 66 reached a major mile marker: it has celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary. Commissioned by the federal government as US Highway 66 in 1926, Route 66 has weathered many bumps in the road. The old road even survived a near-death experience in 1985 when it was bypassed by interstate highways and officially decommissioned only to rise again as a historic landmark and symbol of the independent American spirit and America’s love affair with the automobile.
This fully revised and updated edition of Peter B. Dedek’s classic is a thorough dive into the history and current delights of America’s Road in time for its 100th birthday!
In 2026, Route 66 reached a major mile marker: it has celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary. Commissioned by the federal government as US Highway 66 in 1926, Route 66 has weathered many bumps in the road. The old road even survived a near-death experience in 1985 when it was bypassed by interstate highways and officially decommissioned only to rise again as a historic landmark and symbol of the independent American spirit and America’s love affair with the automobile.
Although much along the historic highway has been lost over the years, Route 66 still has a lot to offer. Old motels, vacant gas stations, vintage restaurants, and decayed tourist traps have been preserved and transformed into sites of reverence and memory. In the past few decades, the highway has evolved into a linear…
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