Continued from Part 1 1950’s: Postwar Boom As automobile and truck traffic increased, the businesses along U.S. Route 66 served the travelers’ needs. Service stations, restaurants, auto camps and cottages, later motels, sprang up, some of them in the most astonishing architectural styles – restaurants in the form of a…

Do you want to go back to the road’s very beginnings? Or experience somewhere along the way at a diner, in an “oldies” car, or perhaps in a teepee? Find out what the road was, from Steinbeck’s to Bobby Troop’s vision of it. Weathered, withered, wondrous: the Okie’s ‘glory road’….