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Tales from the Coral Court: Photos and Stories from a Lost Route 66 Landmark
by Shellee Graham, Virginia Publishing,  2000 

Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America
by Roger White, Smithsonian Ins. Press, 2000 

Main Street Diners - Where Hoosiers Begin the Day
by W. Trogdon, Backroads Press, 2000 

Back Roads and Hidden Corners
Readers Digest,  2000 

Minds Eye, Mind’s Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered
by James  Curtis, Temple University Press, 1989   

See The USA – The Art of the American Travel Brochure
by John Margolies and Eric Baker, Chronicle Books,  2000    

Little Museums
by L. Arany and A. Hobson,  Henry Holt & Co., 1998    

Route 66: The Empires of Amusement
by T.A. Repp, Mock Turtle Press, 1999

Fun Along The Road American Tourist Attractions
by John Margolies,  Bulfinch 1998 

The New Roadside America Modern Guide to Tourist Attractions
by M. Kirby, K. Smith and D. Kirby, Fireside 1992 

The American Gas Station
by Michael Karl Witzel, Motor Books International, 1998 

Cinema Under the Stars: America’s Love Affair With the Drive-In Movie Theater
by Elizabeth McKeon, Linda Everett & Liz McKeon, Cumberland House 1998  

The American Diner
by Michael Karl Witzel, Motorbooks International 1999  

Where Have You Gone, Starlight Cafe?: America’s Golden Era Roadside Restaurants 
by W. Anderson, Anderson & Sons Publishing Co., 1998  

The First New York-Philadelphia Stage Road
by J. & M. Cawley, Associated Univ.  Press,  1981 

Stage-Coach Days in the Bluegrass
by J. W. Coleman, Jr., Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1995 

Dirt Roads to Dixie
by H.L. Preston, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991 

Highway: America’s Endless Dream
by Jeffrey T. Brouws, Bernd Polster, Stewart Tabori & Chang 1997 

The Million Dollar Highway, Colorado’s Most Spectacular Seventy Miles
by Marvin Gregory and P. David Smith, Western Reflections Inc., 1997  

Saving Historic Roads: Design and Policy Guidelines  
by Paul Daniel Marriott, John Wiley & Sons, 1997 

The Missouri U.S. 66 Tour Book
by C.H. Curtis, Curtis Enterprises, 1994 

The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America 
by Drake Hokanson, Univ. of Iowa Press, 1999 

Reading the Road: U.S. 40 and the American Landscape
by Thomas J. Us, Univ. of TN Press, 1997 

Lincoln Highway: Iowa 
by Gregory M. Franzwa, Patrice Press, 1995 

Searching for 66 
by Tom Teague, Samizdat House, 1996 

Route 66 Across New Mexico: A Wanderer’s Guide 
by Jill Schneider, Univ. of N.M. Press, 1991 

The National Road (The Road and American Culture)
by Karl B. Raitz, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996 

Looking for History on Highway 14 
by John E. Miller, First Edition, Iowa State Univ. Press, 1993
Second Edition, South Dakota State Historical Society Press with a new introduction by the author, 2001

Phillips 66 1945-1954 Photo Archive
by Phillips Petroleum Company Archives, M. Kirn (Editor), Iconografix, 1996 

Petroleum Collectibles (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Rick Pease, Schiffer Publishing, 1997 

The Gas Station in America (Creating the North American Landscape)
by John A. Jakle, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994  

Gas Station Memories
by Michael Karl Witzel, Barnes & Nobel Books, 1998 

Where the Old Roads Go
by George Cantor, Harper & Row, 1990 

Roadside Memories: A Collection of Vintage Gas Station Photographs
by Todd P. Helms & Chip Flohe, Schiffer Publishing, 1997 

Diners
by Karen Offitzer, Fairfax Publishers, 1997 

The Devil’s Backbone – The Story of the Natchez Trace
by Jonathan Daniels, Pelican, 1990 

Traveling the Trace
by Cathy and Vernon Summerlin, Rutledge Hill Press, 1995   

Dixie Before Disney – 100 Years of Roadside Fun 
by Tim Hollis , Univ. of Mississippi Press, 1999 This title is also available in paperback.

The Highway as Habitat  
by Ulrich Keller - A Roy Stryker Documentation, 1943-1955, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 1985 

That Ribbon of Highway: Highway 99 from the Oregon Border to the State Capital,
by Jill Livingston & Kathryn Maloof, Living Gold Press, 1996

That Ribbon of Highway II: From the  State Capital to the Mexican Border
by Jill Livingston & Kathryn Maloof, Living Gold Press, 1998

Drive-In Deluxe
by Michael Karl Witzel, Motorbooks International, 1997

The American Drive-In
by Michael Karl Witzel, Motorbooks International, 1994

As Seen on TV – The Visual Culture of the 1950s
by Karal Ann Marling, Harvard University Press, 1996

Googie – Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture
by Alan Hess, Chronicle Books, 1985

Car Hops and Curb Service
by Jim Heimann, Chronicle Books, 1996

Michigan Off the Beaten Path
by Jim DuFresne, The Globe Pequot Press, 1996

Rhode Island Off the Beaten Path
by Robert Patrick Curley, The Globe Pequot Press, 1996

The Route 66 Traveler’s Guide and Roadside Companion
by Tom Snyer, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995

Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to More Than 1,000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting
Readers Digest Association, 1987

See The USA the Easy Way: 136 Loop Tours to 1200 Great Places
Readers Digest Association, 1995

The Most Scenic Drives in America
Readers Digest Association, 1997

Only in Louisiana
by Kieth Odom, Quail Ridge Press, 1994

Route 66: The Highway and its People
by Quinta Scott and Susan Croce Kelly,  U. of Okla. Press, 1988
Charles Kuralt’s America
by Charles Kuralt, Anchor Books 1995

Backroads of Florida
by Ann Ruff, Gulf Publishing Co., 1992

North Carolina Curiosities
by Jerry Bledsoe, Globe Pequot, 1990

Only In Mississippi
by Lorraine Redd & Jack E. Davis, Quail Ridge Press, 1994
A Guide Book to Highway 66
by Jack D. Rittenhouse, University of New Mexico Press, 1989  (This is a facsimile of the original 1946 first edition)

First Highways of America
by John L. Butler, Krause Publications, 1994

Route 66 Remembered
by Michael Karl Witzel, Motorbooks International, 1996

Pump and Circumstance
by John Margolies, Little, Brown and Co., 1996 

Hitting the Road – The Art of the American Road Map
by Douglas A. Yourke Jr., John Margolies and Eric Baker, Chronicle Books, 1996

Home Away From Home – Motels in America
by John Margoleis, Little, Brown & Co., 1995

The Motel in America (Road and American Culture)
by John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, Jefferson S. Rodgers, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Historic American Covered Bridges by Brian J. McKee, Oxford Univ. Press, 1997

Farm: The Vernacular Tradition of Working Buildings
by David Larkin, Paul Rocheleau, Monacelli Press, 1995

Life on the Road
by Charles Kuralt, Ivy Books, 1991

Route 66:  The Mother Road
by Michael Wallis, St. Martins Press,  1992

The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck, Penguin Books, 1992

Divided Highways 
by Tom Lewis, Viking, 1997

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
by William Least-Heat Moon, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991

The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America
by Drake Hokanson, University of Iowa Press, 1988

God’s Own Junkyard
by Peter Blake, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964

Small Town America
by David Plowden, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994 

America
by Walker Evans, Rizzoli, 1991

Route 66 – A Guidebook to the Mother Road
by Bob Moore & Patrick Gruels, SUDS, Inc.

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