Presentation Slide 1 - Historic U.S. 66
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Presentation Slide 11 - Highways intersecting U.S. 66
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Slide 32-Illinois-Buckingham Fountain
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Slide 43-Missouri-Munger Moss Motel
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Slide 45-Kansas-Eisler Bros. & Rainbow Bridge
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Slide 47-Oklahoma-Sidewalk Highway
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Slide 55-Texas-Tower Service & U Drop Inn
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Slide 58-New Mexico-Pow Wow Inn & Tucumcari Mountain
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Slide 66-Arizona-Wig Wam Motel
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Windy City Road Warrior Presentations

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Intro Slide for our Standard Presentation

If you are looking for interesting presentations for your museum, library, social group, or any other type of organization, please consider tapping into the informational and visual resources available from Windy City Road Warrior.com!

Our standard PowerPoint presentation begins with a video montage of contemporary Route 66 scenes. Next, a short discussion of the history of road building in the United States notes that many of our current highways (including Route 66) follow trails first blazed by Native American footpaths, 19th century canals, and railroad trunk lines. We explore why Route 66 "winds from Chicago to L.A.," and we look at the historic biography of the local thoroughfares that carried the highway's traffic in the Chicago area.

End of 66 sign

Next, a video slide show of images depicts the damage done to Route 66 cities and towns by the passing of time and the migration of through traffic onto the Interstates. From the west side of Chicago, through neglected areas of otherwise thriving communities and through ghost towns like Glen Rio and Goffs, the photos show desolation caused by the bypass of previously-thriving corridors of travel. However, these images do not spell the "End of Route 66."

Presentation Virtual Tour of 66 includes views of Tucumcari, New Mexico

The final section of the standard presentation is a "virtual tour" of Route 66 today. Through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, the images show the vibrant life still lived along the highway corridor, despite the fact of Route 66's "official" de-commissioning in the 1980s. Amidst the decay caused by the interstates, thrifty and industrious business owners and highway enthusiasts continue to breath life and longevity into America's Main Street, the Mother Road, Route 66.

Custom Presentation-North Lawndale

Our standard presentation usually includes a short discussion of the highway history local to the particular venue. Our presentation at the Des Plaines Public Library included mention of U.S. Highways 12, 14, and 45, and our Joliet Historical Museum dates have touched on Highways 6 and 30. The content can also be customized to concentrate on specific sections of the highway corridor, such as in our presentation at the Chicago Architecture Foundation that focused on Route 66 through Chicago's west side neighborhood, North Lawndale.

Map of 66 with intersecting transcontinental U.S. Highways

Standard Presentation Details

Our PowerPoint presentations are normally designed to last 45-60 minutes and involve as much audience interaction as practical. We encourage and prefer time to be set aside at the end of the presentation for Q & A and discussion. We provide the PowerPoint files and can use our own laptop computer, but other audio/video equipment must be provided by the venue.

Railroads blazed the Route 66 trail

Customized Presentations

With sufficient lead-time, we can customize our presentation to the specifications of the customer. Our resources are NOT restricted to Route 66; rather, they include information that can be used to create programs for any specific segment of highway and transportation history relating to Chicago, or to Illinois, or to the corridors of transportation and commerce for which the city and state serve as hubs. We stand ready to meet any challenge within the scope of our archival resources.

Wig Wam Motel, Holbrook, Arizona

For venues that cannot support PowerPoint presentations, our materials can be adjusted to use handouts and poster-sized visual aids in a lecture format.

California: Bono's Orange Stand

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