Taking the “school bus” in West Linn, Oregon, 1904.I-94 Lowry Hill Tunnel under construction. (1969) This is in fact a tunnel now.The Great North Dakota Blizzard of 1966Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis (1946)Metropolitan Stadium (1982)Minneapolis Skyline (1940)7th from Hennepin during Christmas time in Minneapolis. (1924)Minneapolis in 1955A wagon train following the California Trail across Nevada during the 1860’s. The Bartleson-Bidwell Party were the first wagon train to take the California Trail across Nevada in 1841. By 1869 there had been an estimated 450,000 people who had taken a covered wagon along the California Trail in Nevada. The 40 mile desert between Lovelock, and Fernley was the worst part of that trail because there was no water. In Fallon during the 1930’s you could still find a lot of debris from the wagon trains that had crossed that stretch of desert.Richfield, Minnesota in the 1970sHere is a “then & now” of, we believe, one of the most iconic towns on Old Route 66, Winslow, Arizona. In the top 1940s photo, you can see people just hanging out on the corner that the Eagles later made famous with their 1972 song “Take It Easy” and the line “Well, I’m a standin’ on a corner In Winslow, Arizona.” You can see the Rt. 66 shield on the pole next to that corner. Standing on the Corner Winslow Arizona: the Park Winslow already had some acclaim as a Route 66 town with a celebrated hotel, the historic La Posada, and, up until the 1960s, it was the largest town in northern Arizona but the song sent Arizona road trippers detouring from interstate I-40 to look for the famous intersection
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