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Established Nov. 11,
1926, U.S. Route 66
was the one road
connecting travelers
to the western edge
of the country.
Route 66, dubbed
the Mother Road,
the Main Street
of America or
Will Rogers Highway,
ran from Chicago, IL,
to Santa Monica, CA.
The Mother Road
started to be
replaced by the
interstate highway
system in 1956.
Sections of Route 66
are now designated
as National Scenic
Byways or listed on
the National Register
of Historic Places.
TIMELINE
JIM EYDMANN, now of Granite City, IL, was 15 when he got
his first job in 1954 working at Sunnyside Farm Products in
Afton, MO, near St. Louis. The farmstand’s owner, Ray Knierim,
employed teenage clerks and paid them 50 cents an hour.
“We worked so many hours,” says Jim, “sometimes I made
as much as my mom, who worked at the local bank.”•
WhileIwashomefromcollege,
my summer job in 1969 was
drivingmyscooterthroughneighborhoods
in Rochester, New York, selling Skippy
icecream.Irangthebellsandkids
racedouttogreetme.
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