Edward Keating: MAIN STREET: The Lost Dream of Route 66

"Strung out in a twelve dollar room in Flagstaff, Arizona along Route 66. Another hard night of drinking. Another blackout. Mattress on the floor. No sheets. An empty bottle of Old Grand Dad whiskey. I stagger out onto the hot blacktop of America's Main Street and no car. I had lost my car." So begins Blacktop Blues , Edward Keating's personal essay on the demise of Route 66, J... (展开全部)