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One of the author's earliest memories is a visit to a U.S.50 work site in the mid-1930s where
horse drawn scoops guided by depression weary men were moving dirt to form the road bed.
A few years later he traveled on vacation with his family from his southern Indiana home east to Washington. It was 1940, a time of tourist cabins, road houses, small cafes and filling stations with attendants who cleaned windshields and checked the oil.
A decade later, the road was his route home on leave from a
U.S. Army base. And over the years he continued to traverse sections of the
road, which Time Magazine calls "The Backbone of America." |
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Join the author now on a sentimental journey along U.S.50
from Washington to St. Louis as he remembers the past and records the present.
The result is a fascinating look at a road and its people, a view those who
travel interstates miss in their haste to rush from one place to another. |
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Details
- Paperback:
187 pages
- Dimensions (in inches):
9.25 x 0.75 x 6.25
- Publisher:
Backroads Press
- ISBN: 0964237164
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