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The twilight of the mom and pop roadside motel

In 1939, when John Steinbeck imagined Highway 66 as “the road of flight,” he evoked the crushing realities of Depression-era migrants who’d been pushed off their land by failing crops, relentless dust and heartless banks. Struggling to find some sense of home on the road, these environmental and economic refugees searched for hope against a […]

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