Friday check in: bow ties
from With Strings Attached
Historian Leslie Goddard presented an engaging program about Route 66 for the final Clara Cummings Book Club luncheon of the year. She showed photos and told stories about how the highway changed small towns from Illinois to California (gas stations, restaurants, tourist courts). It became the popular overland route because most of it was fairly flat (south of the higher Rockies). However, it was a two-lane road that went right through the centers of towns, and in the 1950s and 1960s it was superseded by the Interstate Highway System. Rather than get stuck in backwater obscurity many of the towns ... read more
