Dave Clark, Windy City Road Warrior

Come visit with Dave Clark and Jim Hinckley, noted and award-winning authors of books on Route 66 (and other subjects). We will be at the Berwyn Route 66 Museum from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on October 5, 2011. Feel free to come by to buy an autographed book, bring books you already own so we can sign them, or simply engage in conversation about Route 66, transportation history, Chicago and the great American West, or anything else! It will also be a great opportunity to see the new Berwyn Route 66 Museum and what it has to offer!

Jim Hinckley – Author of Ghost Towns of Route 66

Explore the beauty and nostalgia of these abandoned communities along America’s favorite highway! Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66!
Hardcover • 160 pages
151 color & 21 b/w photos, 1 map
$25.00 US

Route 66 in Chicago by David G. Clark

David Clark – Author of Route 66 in Chicago

Vintage photographs and postcard views, as well as contemporary images, are weaved together with narrative and captions to tell the pictorial history of the world’s most famous highway and the city in which it began.

“Much as Route 66 and the city of Chicago share a kindred history, so do the art and text, paired perfectly so that readers get plenty of information and are able to see what the author is talking about” –Jon P. Callender, American Road Magazine.

“David Clark has produced an excellent volume tracing the Route 66 corridor through the Chicago of today and back to early Native American trails and waterways…Clark is noted for his outstanding research and entertaining writing style and this book does not disappoint in either category”—Bob Moore, Route 66 Magazine.

First place winner, nonfiction history book, 2008 Illinois Women’s Press Association Communications Awards.

Softcover: 128 Pages, 6 1/2″ wide x 9 3/16″ tall, 195 photos & illustrations. $19.99.

Both authors will have these titles and more available for purchase and signing. Come by for casual conversation about Route 66, other U.S. Highways, your travels, local and U.S. history, or to just say hello!
Berwyn Route 66 Museum, 7003 W. Ogden Ave., 708-484-9349 http://www.berwynrt66museum.org- info@BerwynRt66Museum.org

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