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Documenting The Mother Road

Posted by: Tim Halbur

24 December 2009 - 7:00am

The California Preservation Foundation and the National Park Service are funding a cultural survey of Route 66, which could result in several new national landmarks along the old highway.

Martha Groves writes, "The consultant will travel the Route 66 corridor from the Arizona border at Topock to Santa Monica and catalog the different roadside properties, such as diners, motels and attractions, and identify historic themes and key periods of significance."

"The highway, rendered unnecessary by the interstate highway system, was decommissioned in the mid-1980s and much of the living history of Route 66 has vanished as the road has been broadened into suburban thoroughfares."

Full Story: Route 66 -- immortalized, but mortal
Source: The Los Angeles Times, December 23, 2009
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