Route 66 Motels: Fading piece of Americana


	Route 66 Motels: Fading piece of Americana

invictus

5-21-2007 11:08 AM

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route 66, motels, america, city, culture, john steinbeck, grapes of wrath, nat king cole

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Motels along Route 66, immortalized by John Steinbeck and Nat King Cole, are in disrepair

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MIAMI, Okla. - The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma.
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