Tag: Route 66
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Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis
The Book That Defined Route 66 This week’s Roadside Reads and Reels featured book is Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis. I picked it up not long after it was released in 1990. At the time, I was working as an over-the-road truck driver, crisscrossing the country and catching glimpses of many of
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The Abandoned Security State Bank of Mounds, Illinois
The words Security State Bank etched above the doorway, a quiet reminder of when business still flowed through these streets. Photographed May 20, 2020 © RJL Creative LLC. Use without permission is strictly prohibited. A gray sky and a hunch I wasn’t planning on stopping in Mounds that afternoon. However, the back roads of southeastern
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