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Route 66 in Madison County

Title: Route 66 in Madison County / Cheryl Eichar Jett.
Author: Jett, Cheryl Eichar.
Publication: Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2010]

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Description

127 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

Route 66 zigzagged southwest across Madison County, Illinois, before crossing the Mississippi River into Missouri. Various alignments of this segment of the "Mother Road" rolled through pastoral farmland, headed down main streets, and later straightened as it bypassed towns. From 1926 to 1977, the path of the highway changed numerous times and crossed the Mississippi River on no less than five different bridges. Along the way motorists watched for the blue neon cross on St. Paul's Lutheran Church to guide their nighttime travel; they counted on the doors of the Tourist Haven, Cathcart's, or the Luna Cafe to be open for business. Travelers crossed their fingers that they wouldn't get stuck at the bend of the Chain of Rocks Bridge and hoped they could make it up Mooney Hill in the winter. A later alignment took motorists right by Fairmount Park and Monks Mound.

Series Statement

Images of America

Uniform Title

Images of America

Alternative Title

Route sixty-six in Madison County

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Local history.
Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 127).

Contents

Worden and Hamel -- Williamson and Livingston -- Edwardsville -- Mitchell -- Granite City, Madison, and Venice -- Collinsville -- The bridges.

ISBN

9780738583853
0738583855

LCCN

2010924240

OCLC

ocn639158750
639158750
SCSB-9609514

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library