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What's left of the old "kamp" campground) headquarters building, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old "kamp" campground) headquarters building, a roa...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Ticket booth to an old "tourist trap" zoo, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

Ticket booth to an old "tourist trap" zoo, a roadside-attraction remna...

The zoo was the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. There is still a Two Guns exit from the high-speed Interstate... More

A grain elevator and related buildings in Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

A grain elevator and related buildings in Groom, a tiny community alon...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A reminder, in the grass behind the Big Texan Steak Ranch, a popular Amarillo, Texas, restaurant, of the days when the old, two-lane U.S. Route 66 wound through town

A reminder, in the grass behind the Big Texan Steak Ranch, a popular A...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Roadside sign for the El Trovatore Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Roadside sign for the El Trovatore Motel in Kingman, a small city at t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Large Route 66 sign in the pavement in Kingman, Arizona, a small city in western Arizona, near both California and Nevada

Large Route 66 sign in the pavement in Kingman, Arizona, a small city ...

Kingman is one of several Arizona towns that enjoys (and profits from) its status as a key stop on old U.S. Route 66, the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Los Angeles during the heyday of family two-lane road trav... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Route 66 neon sign, part of a display of vintage and neon from historic U.S. Route 66 on the median strip of Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California

Route 66 neon sign, part of a display of vintage and neon from histori...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The display of three large-scale signs on the boulevard and one at Plummer Park was co-sponsored by the city and the Museum of Neon Art. Credit line: The ... More

A natural rainbow arch surmounts the highway outside Seligman, Arizona, a town that likes to promote its position along a looping remnant of historic U.S. Route 66 that rises above the high-speed Interstate 10 in western Arizona

A natural rainbow arch surmounts the highway outside Seligman, Arizona...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

What's left of the old campground bath house, now a graffiti-covered remnant at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old campground bath house, now a graffiti-covered r...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

What's left of the old outdoor pool, now a graffiti-covered remnant, at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old outdoor pool, now a graffiti-covered remnant, a...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a ro...

The zoo was the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. There is still a Two Guns exit from the high-speed Interst... More

The quirky "Greasy Spoon" restaurant inside the Route 66 Museum in the Texas Panhandle

The quirky "Greasy Spoon" restaurant inside the Route 66 Museum in the...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

A massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of historic U.S. Route 66 still runs through town

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of hist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Freight train Seligman, Arizona

Freight train Seligman, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Stretches of old U.S. highway 66 such as this in Mohave County, Arizona, are often deserted. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Stretches of old U.S. highway 66 such as this in Mohave County, Arizon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Remnants of the abandoned Twin Arrows trading post in a dot of a place of the same name along old U.S. Highway 66 in eastern Arizona, which served as a major path for those who migrated west during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Traffic began to flow through the Twin Arrows area because Route 66 was aligned along the National Old Trails Road. These two 25-foot giant arrows which were placed on the property were easily recognized by traveling motorists, and the business began to fourish, but the Twin Arrows Trading Post began to fail with the construction of the Interstate 40 , which pulled traffic off old Route 66. The decline continued until 1995, when the site was finally closed and abandoned

Remnants of the abandoned Twin Arrows trading post in a dot of a place...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Close look at the outside of a round barn on U.S. 66 near Arcadia, Oklahoma

Close look at the outside of a round barn on U.S. 66 near Arcadia, Okl...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along U.S. 40 (the old U.S. Route 66) near Groom in the Texas Panhandle

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The free-standing cross can be seen twenty miles away. Surrounding the base of the cross are life-sized statues of the fourteen Stati... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restau...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More

Robert Griffin is no spray-painting vandal. Like thousands of other visitors to the "Cadillac Ranch" along Old U.S. Route 66 outside Amarillo, Texas, he is encouraged to bring a along a spray can to add a touch or two to the unusual public art installation. Thus the overall look remains the same over time, but the details change daily

Robert Griffin is no spray-painting vandal. Like thousands of other vi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture, a roadside attraction in the Texas panhandle, was executed by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a p... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Large Route 66 sign in the pavement in Kingman, Arizona, a small city in western Arizona, near both California and Nevada. Kingman is one of several Arizona towns that enjoys (and profits from) its status as a key stop on old U.S. Route 66, the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Los Angeles during the heyday of family two-lane road travel

Large Route 66 sign in the pavement in Kingman, Arizona, a small city ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Souvenir stores in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through te 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Souvenir stores in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66. Much ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

This figure, whatever it is, stands outside the gift shop of the old Ranchero Motel in the tiny settlement of Anteres, Arizona, in Mohave County along U.S. Highway 66

This figure, whatever it is, stands outside the gift shop of the old R...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The Snow Cap hamburger and ice-cream parlor along old, two-lane U.S. Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona

The Snow Cap hamburger and ice-cream parlor along old, two-lane U.S. R...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Welcome sign along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward t Grand Canyon National Park

Welcome sign along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother R...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Remnants of Meteor City "never a city but a now-defunct trading post along an old alignment of historic U.S. Route 66 in Coconino County in Arizona. The trading post appeared at a turnoff for the nearby Meteor Crater natural wonder

Remnants of Meteor City "never a city but a now-defunct trading post a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

This green tiki head (right) and another figure, whatever it is, stand outside the gift shop of the old Ranchero Motel in the tiny settlement of Anteres, Arizona, in Mohave County along U.S. Highway 66

This green tiki head (right) and another figure, whatever it is, stand...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A historical mural in Kingman, Arizona, that touts, among several things, old U.S. Route 66, a two-lane road that ran through town in the heyday of family, two-lane automobile travel. The highway still exists and is often touted as a nostalgic tourist attraction, but most traffice has bailed off ot it in favor of a nearby high-speed interstate highway

A historical mural in Kingman, Arizona, that touts, among several thin...

Mural artist: Sudnik, '04. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Mr. D's Route 66 diner in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Mr. D's Route 66 diner in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along U.S. 40 (the old U.S. Route 66) near Groom in the Texas Panhandle

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The free-standing cross can be seen twenty miles away. Surrounding the base of the cross are life-sized statues of the fourteen Stati... More

The Stagecoach Motel on the edge of Seligman, Arizona, a town that likes to promote its position along a looping remnant of historic U.S. Route 66 that rises above the high-speed Interstate 10 in western Arizona. The motel, however, promotes its Norwegian ownership

The Stagecoach Motel on the edge of Seligman, Arizona, a town that lik...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remnant at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remn...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Vintage car and a historic town mural in Holbrook, Arizona

Vintage car and a historic town mural in Holbrook, Arizona

Mural in memory [of] Frank Dobell. Artist: Severo, 2004. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmi... More

A mural depicting several once-popular TV and movie celebrities whose likenesses appear as part of the whimsical decoration helps promote the Canyon 66 Restaurant & Lounge, part of the Ramada Inn motel in Kingman, Arizona

A mural depicting several once-popular TV and movie celebrities whose ...

Mural artist: Dan & Vicki. The "66" refers to old U.S. Route 66, a two-lane highway that was once the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of family cross-country travel. Kingma... More

Scene outside Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene outside Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic ea...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More

Iconic roadside "HERE IT IS" sign for the Jack Rabbit Trading Post along U.S. Route 66 in the tiny settlement of Joseph City, Arizona. At that old landmark, one still (as of 2019) finds a rideable fiberglass rabbit at the trading post. Versions of this sign were posted for miles in each direction to advertise this roadside attraction in the famous two-lane highway's heyday

Iconic roadside "HERE IT IS" sign for the Jack Rabbit Trading Post alo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

What's left of the old outdoor pool and bath house, now graffiti-covered remnants at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old outdoor pool and bath house, now graffiti-cover...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Round barn on U.S. 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Round barn on U.S. 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Robert Griffin is no spray-painting vandal. Like thousands of other visitors to the "Cadillac Ranch" along Old U.S. Route 66 outside Amarillo, Texas, he is encouraged to bring a along a spray can to add a touch or two to the unusual public art installation. Thus the overall look remains the same over time, but the details change daily

Robert Griffin is no spray-painting vandal. Like thousands of other vi...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Jack Rabbit Trading Post, a long-time landmark along U.S. Route 66 in the tiny settlement of Joseph City, Arizona. It was famous for numerous billboards up and down U.S 66. (and in some other locations) which showed the silhouette of a jackrabbit and the distance from that sign to the trading post. In front of the store was another such billboard with "HERE IT IS" written underneath it

The Jack Rabbit Trading Post, a long-time landmark along U.S. Route 66...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remnant at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remn...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Mr. D's Route 66 Diner in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Mr. D's Route 66 Diner in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a ro...

The zoo was the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. There is still a Two Guns exit from the high-speed Interst... More

The Hill Top Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona, may once have had the "best view in Kingman," but it was shuttered and empty at the time of this photo in lat 2018. Kingman promotes the former--the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

The Hill Top Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Rou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sign for The Plainsman restaurant and coffee shop, a vintage roadside restaurant built in 1966 along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. That same year, a movie of the same name "a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille western film "was released in Hollywood. It starred Don Murray as Wild Bill Hickok, Guy Stockwell as Buffalo Bill Cody and Abby Dalton as Calamity Jane

Sign for The Plainsman restaurant and coffee shop, a vintage roadside ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Rainbow over the rugged terrain near the tiny settlement of Hackberry, Arizona, along a remnant of old U.S. Highway 66

Rainbow over the rugged terrain near the tiny settlement of Hackberry,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Eagle figure atop a hand-drawn Route 66 sign in downtown Winslow, Arizona. U.S. 66 was the two-lane main road through northern Arizona until the new, high-speed Interstate 10 pulled much traffic off the historic road

Eagle figure atop a hand-drawn Route 66 sign in downtown Winslow, Ariz...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Something is definitely missing from this old car outside the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Something is definitely missing from this old car outside the Hackberr...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Downtown block in Winslow, Arizona, including the reputed "world's smallest church," which is actually a praying booth in a courtyar of the building to the left

Downtown block in Winslow, Arizona, including the reputed "world's sma...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The sign says "California 66," but this convenience store is in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former--the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

The sign says "California 66," but this convenience store is in Kingma...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the old U.S. Highway 66 wound through town

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the ol...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The old Aztec Motel in Seligman, Arizona, along a remnant of the historic U.S. Highway 66

The old Aztec Motel in Seligman, Arizona, along a remnant of the histo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Abandoned buildings in the settlement of Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Abandoned buildings in the settlement of Truxton, along old U.S. Highw...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A rather sublime-looking tiki head stands outside the gift shop of the old Ranchero Motel in the tiny settlement of Anteres, Arizona, in Mohave County along U.S. Highway 66

A rather sublime-looking tiki head stands outside the gift shop of the...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A representation of the sign for the Texas portion of the old U.S. Highway 66, posted during a short portion of that road still existing in Amarillo, Texas

A representation of the sign for the Texas portion of the old U.S. Hig...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Remnants of the abandoned Twin Arrows trading post in a dot of a place of the same name along old U.S. Highway 66 in eastern Arizona, which served as a major path for those who migrated west during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Traffic began to flow through the Twin Arrows area because Route 66 was aligned along the National Old Trails Road. Two 25-foot giant arrows which were placed on the property were easily recognized by traveling motorists and the business began to fourish, but the Twin Arrows Trading Post began to fail with the construction of the Interstate 40 , which pulled traffic off old Route 66. The decline continued until 1995, when the site was finally closed and abandoned

Remnants of the abandoned Twin Arrows trading post in a dot of a place...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A vintage car outside the Canyon 66 Restaurant & Lounge, part of the Ramada Inn motel in Kingman, Arizona, that displays a likeness of the late television star Lucille Ball

A vintage car outside the Canyon 66 Restaurant & Lounge, part of the R...

More TV and movie celebrities' likenesses are painted onto the walls of the restaurant. The "66" refers to old U.S. Route 66, a two-lane highway that was once the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Santa Monica, Cal... More

This old truck outside the gift shop outside the old Ranchero Motel in the tiny settlement of Anteres, Arizona, in Mohave County along U.S. Highway 66 once advertised the Grand Canyon Caverns, miles down the road near Peach Springs

This old truck outside the gift shop outside the old Ranchero Motel in...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

The "Leaning Tower of Groom," a tilted water tower that used to suppy a now-extinct truck stop off old U.S. Route 66 in tiny Groom, Texas

The "Leaning Tower of Groom," a tilted water tower that used to suppy ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tilt was not the work of an earthquake, tornado, or out- of-control airplane. It was deliberate marketing strategy by the truck s... More

Arizona 66 sign and mural in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Arizona 66 sign and mural in Kingman, a small city at the junction of ...

Mural artist: name not given. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Mural on a smokestack recalling the days of steam-driven locomotives in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Mural on a smokestack recalling the days of steam-driven locomotives i...

Mural artist: name not given. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Bands of roiling clous sweep above old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Bands of roiling clous sweep above old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave Count...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restau...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Landscape along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Landscape along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

This fellow does not look fully capable of fixing this old car in the garage of the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

This fellow does not look fully capable of fixing this old car in the ...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remnant at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remn...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Cars well past their prime give old-time ambience to the scene outside the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Cars well past their prime give old-time ambience to the scene outside...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

A portion of the Wall of Presidents and First Ladies at the Mohave Museum of History in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

A portion of the Wall of Presidents and First Ladies at the Mohave Mus...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward to Grand Canyon National Park

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sunset along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Sunset along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Ro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attraction at the venerable Hackberry General Store in the tiny settlement of Hackberry, Arizona "a vestige of the heyday of two-lane cross-country travel in the 1930s and 40s along U.S. Highway 66

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Motel room entrances plugging U.S. Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, a small city in western Arizona, near both California and Nevada

Motel room entrances plugging U.S. Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, a sma...

Kingman is one of several Arizona towns that enjoys (and profits from) its status as a key stop on old U.S. Route 66, the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Los Angeles during the heyday of family two-lane road trav... More

Outdoor mural of a motorcycle and rider at the Mohave Museum of History in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Outdoor mural of a motorcycle and rider at the Mohave Museum of Histor...

Mural artist: name not given. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Landscape along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Landscape along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward to Grand Canyon National Park

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Colorfully decorated Rutherford's Family Diner in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona. Kingman promotes the former, the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

Colorfully decorated Rutherford's Family Diner in Kingman, a small cit...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

What's left of the old campground bath house, now a graffiti-covered remnant, at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old campground bath house, now a graffiti-covered r...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Drilling equipment near Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Drilling equipment near Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Thunderstorm Seligman, Arizona - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Thunderstorm Seligman, Arizona - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date and keywords devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

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