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Route Lost and Found conveys the spirit and the times not quite like any other book Arizona Daily SunFor several decades Route was the nations main east-west thoroughfare pointing Middle America toward all the promise California seemed to hold at various times whether permanent refuge from the Dust Bowl or a temporary escape from the drudgery of everyday suburban life in prosperous postwar America As such Americas Main Street once teemed with activity bustling centers of commerce that evaporated into the vast American landscape like the jet contrails overhead and the heat rising from the Interstate asphalt This engaging look at the Mother Road takes locations along its mile route from Chicago to Santa Monica and shows them first during their halcyon heydays through black-and-white photographs and period postcards then on the facing page as they appear today from the exact same angle and also through vivid black-and-white photographs.