title: Route 66 in California (Images of America)
author:  Glen Duncan 
description: Author Glen Duncan, with the help of Jim Conkle of the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation, has compiled this tour along Californias part of the two-lane corridor that Will Rogers called Main Street America. With fascinating archival photographs gathered from many museum, library, and governmental collections, and current images of what still exists, they have created a mosaic of transportation, tourism, and wayside heritage along a blacktop ribbon that has been seminal to the American idea of the road as poetry.
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  CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’  
  _A LONG ROUTE 66_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **O N THE COVER:** The Will Rogers Highway Association never missed a chance
  to promote Route 66 as the route to the sunshine, glamour, and pretty girls in
  California. Press releases and promotional photographs of models posed on the
  beach or along the road, many in high heels, were issued constantly. These
  models, whose names were not recorded, were posed ever so naturally along
  Santa Monica Boulevard prior to one of the annual Will Rogers Highway
  Association conventions. Will Rogers helped promote Route 66 throughout his
  career and planned to retire to his ranch near Santa Monica before his life
  was cut short in a plane crash.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’  
  _A LONG ROUTE 66_
  
  
  Joe Sonderman
  
  
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  Copyright © 2019 by Joe Sonderman  
  ISBN 978-1-4671-0316-9  
  Ebook ISBN 978-1-4396-6691-3
  
  
  Published by Arcadia Publishing  
  Charleston, South Carolina
  
  
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