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Growing Up On Route 66
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Author : Michael Lund
language : en
Publisher: Banis & Associates
Release Date : 2000
Growing Up On Route 66 written by Michael Lund and has been published by Banis & Associates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the children growing up there as the "Circle." That time and place are remembered by the novel's narrator as ideal, but closer scrutiny repeatedly--and often humorously--complicates this innocent picture. In growing up we continually confront things that do not make sense. Then, in sudden moments of inspiration the pieces come together. For those growing up in the 1950s, the biggest mystery of childhood was sex. And central characters in this story, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, are repeatedly surprised as parts of this great puzzle take shape in and around them. We are determined to a large degree by the material world in which we live, our own bodies and the world around us. The landscape Mark Landon comes to appreciate contains the great promise this nation enjoyed after World War II. For those living west of the Mississippi especially, this prospect was symbolized by The Mother Road, Route 66.
Growing Up On Route 66
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Author : Michael Lund
language : en
Publisher: MacroPrintBooks
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Growing Up On Route 66 written by Michael Lund and has been published by MacroPrintBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Large type books categories.
Growing Up On Route 66
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Author : Donna King
language : en
Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06
Growing Up On Route 66 written by Donna King and has been published by Trilogy Christian Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06 with categories.
Ever wonder what it would be like to grow up in a car? I grew up homeless in the '60s, traveling from one end of Route 66 to the other. Seven children and our parents packed into an old broken-down car, stealing or begging for food and gas to get to the next town. Occasionally, we would move our carload of belongings into a house, with or without permission of the owner, and stay for a month or two. Sometimes we lived in a tent by a river. We were usually cold and hungry. It is only by the grace of God that I am alive today to tell you my story.
The 66 Kid
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Author : Bob Boze Bell
language : en
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
The 66 Kid written by Bob Boze Bell and has been published by Voyageur Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with History categories.
It's the most famous highway in the world - find out, or remember, why. Tens of thousands of travelers from around the world spend millions of dollars every year trying to recapture the aura of a simpler time. When gasoline can top $4 a gallon and Route 66 is, in many ways, a shell of its former glory, what keeps them coming? Author Bob Boze Bell, a lifelong resident of Kingman, Arizona (one of the quintessential Route 66 towns), has accumulated a unique sense of the Mother Road's history, not to mention friendships with folks from Kingman and other Route 66 communities. In The 66 Kid--part autobiography, part narrative history, part oral history - Bell offers a highly illustrated account of the world's most famous highway full of the author's personal observations and recollections, and exciting first-person accounts from people who lived, worked, and played along the road. Bell digs deep into the roots of the Route 66, offering insights into the people who made it run: from the neon-lit motels to the greasy-spoon diners, and even the shady roadside attractions. Illustrated with period postcards and photos, as well as the author's own maps and art created for this project, The 66 Kid proves that you can still get your kicks on Route 66.
A Kid Growing Up On Route 66
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Author : Bill Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Hazellarts
Release Date : 2015-05-20
A Kid Growing Up On Route 66 written by Bill Wheeler and has been published by Hazellarts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-20 with categories.
Growing up on Route 66 is so connected with people and their lives I felt the need to write about the subject. When we think about the old route I suspect most of us think about a person or persons. Maybe someone along the highway that you met on a road trip, a gas station attendant or maybe someone that helped you after a break down on the old road. Or, in my case, a relative that influenced my life as a young person.
Route 66 Kids
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Author : Michael Lund
language : en
Publisher: Beachhouse Books
Release Date : 2002
Route 66 Kids written by Michael Lund and has been published by Beachhouse Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder about their origin. When kids asked "Where do I come from?" in the 1950s, they were really asking about sex, the biggest mystery for those growing up in an age of American innocence. Cold War children also wanted to know more about their parents and the community which surrounded them. Central characters in this novel, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, find out about the past in the structures of the Missouri small town they live in, which is located along "America's Main Street." Route 66. Throughout their story this great highway endures as a symbol of the promise this nation enjoyed at mid-century. Praise for Growing Up on Route 66 (The first novel in this series) "I finished your novel . . .and was struck by how perfectly it seemed to encircle (of course) the world of childhood and its heady veering toward adulthood.It's a loving and funny book . . .and made me recall with mingled pleasure and embarrassment all the twinges and itches and passions of adolescence.Well done, and thank you or putting it into my hands." --Carrie Brown, author of Lamb in Love and The Hatbox Baby "A wonderfully well-wrought novel, set in a place that's still the stuff of myth, about coming of age in a simpler time when sex was giddily mysterious and life was filled with endless possibilities." --Bernard Edelman, editor of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam and Centenarians: The Story of the 20th Century by the Americans Who Lived It "Growing Up does what every good novel does: creates a time, place and characters that the reader can see and feel.And like every good serial, you want the next installment.Mr. Lund has learned the lessons of Dickens, Anthony Trollope and the other great serialists.Having grown up in a small town on Route 66 myself, I felt Mr. Lund had been reading the childhood diary I never kept." --Harry Fuller, TV Executive, currently with CNBC Europe "In Growing Up on Route 66 Michael Lund gives us a loving look through the telescope of memory, resurrecting forgotten feelings in the idiom of adolescence sharpened by the lens of age--and wisdom.He takes us back to a time when the road ahead was a winding one, just right for joyrides, meant to be wandered, with curious roadside attractions and shady stops along the way.Reading this book is like returning to a summer night when you were young, when life was full of promise, mystery, and terror, that time at twilight, before your mother called you in to wash up and go to bed, when you were playing a leisurely game of kick-the-can and wished that the game could just go on and on.Fortunately, Lund promises that it will go on, in the second book in his series, Route 66 Kids, and, I hope, many more to come." --Eric Kraft, author of The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy "A book that takes us back to a quieter time - when learning about life and love was a pleasant journey, and the nights were full of childhood adventures." --Bob Moore, managing editor, Route 66 Magazine "an entertaining story of small town life"--Route 66 Magazine "funny stories of adolescence in the 1950s"-- Missouri Life "clearly an original "--Farmville (VA) Herald
The 66 Kid
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Author : Bob Boze Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The 66 Kid written by Bob Boze Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Kingman (Ariz.) categories.
Will That Be Regular Or Ethyl
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Author : Dewayne Landwehr
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Will That Be Regular Or Ethyl written by Dewayne Landwehr and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the story of the author's life growing up in a large family in a small Missouri town near Route 66 during the 1950s. DeWayne Landwehr, like many boys who grew up in small-town America, lived through physical and sexual abuse--but he also enjoyed some great times. His early memories involved raising chickens: There were always eggs to gather. Every day, the family would bring them to the basement to be washed, candled, graded, and sold--or washed, sanitized, and assembled into the trays for the incubator, depending on whether they were to be eaten or hatched into more chickens. With three older siblings, he could not wait to go to school. Every day, he'd see his siblings go to class--and it seemed so magical. The entire school system was located right across the street in three buildings. Later, he started working his way to college at a gas station on the famous Route 66, where he encountered people of varying backgrounds. He struggled with the sometimes dishonest practices of his boss, contrasted with the necessity of keeping a job, and met interesting characters along the way.
Eating Up Route 66
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Author : T. Lindsay Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Eating Up Route 66 written by T. Lindsay Baker and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with History categories.
From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they were—adventurous motorists or Dustbowl migrants, troops on military transports or passengers on buses, vacationing families or a new breed of tourists—these travelers had to eat. The story of where they stopped and what they found, and of how these roadside offerings changed over time, reveals twentieth-century America on the move, transforming the nation’s cuisine, culture, and landscape along the way. Author T. Lindsay Baker, a glutton for authenticity, drove the historic route—or at least the 85 percent that remains intact—in a four-cylinder 1930 Ford station wagon. Sparing us the dust and bumps, he takes us for a spin along Route 66, stopping to sample the fare at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands and to describe how such venues came and went—even offering kitchen-tested recipes from historic eateries en route. Start-ups that became such American fast-food icons as McDonald’s, Dairy Queen, Steak ’n Shake, and Taco Bell feature alongside mom-and-pop diners with flocks of chickens out back and sit-down restaurants with heirloom menus. Food-and-drink establishments from speakeasies to drive-ins share the right-of-way with other attractions, accommodations, and challenges, from the Whoopee Auto Coaster in Lyons, Illinois, to the piles of “chat” (mining waste) in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, to the perils of driving old automobiles over the Jericho Gap in the Texas Panhandle or Sitgreaves Pass in western Arizona. Describing options for the wealthy and the not-so-well-heeled, from hotel dining rooms to ice cream stands, Baker also notes the particular travails African Americans faced at every turn, traveling Route 66 across the decades of segregation, legal and illegal. So grab your hat and your wallet (you’ll probably need cash) and come along for an enlightening trip down America’s memory lane—a westward tour through the nation’s heartland and history, with all the trimmings, via Route 66.
Route 66 Dreamer
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Author : Michael Lund
language : en
Publisher: BeachHouse Books
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Route 66 Dreamer written by Michael Lund and has been published by BeachHouse Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Route 66 Dreamer is Michael Lund's tenth novel set in the historical background of Route 66, the Nation's "Mother Road." Earlier novels depicted life as it was in the Midwest during the early golden ages of interstate highways and experiences of related characters in "Growing Up on Route 66." The current 5-volume series, headlined At Home and Away, chronicles an American family during times of peace and war from 1915 to 2015. The first book, Route 66 Sweetheart (2011), is set mostly in and around Rutherford, New Jersey, during the 1930s. Route 66 Dreamer (2012) features the son of a Swedish immigrant who pursues his dreams of American success in Kansas and Missouri in the early 1940s. However, in both books some family members move away to distant countries and unexpected challenges. The third volume, Route 66 Looking-glass (2013), will take place primarily in Missouri in 1965, but characters also travel far from home and familiar experiences. Book Four (2014) follows another generation of family members, this time from Missouri to Southeast Asia where many learn, sadly, "how to not tell a war story." In the final volume of the series (2015), the next generation travels to Europe and the Middle East to understand their identity in a multi-national community.