A new book from Voyageur Press, “Greetings from Route 66,” will be launched on Sept. 18 during the Chillin’ on Beale Street event in Kingman, Ariz.
The book-launch event is sponsored by the Kingman Route 66 Association, and will be from 5 to 10 p.m. that day. Kingman resident and author Jim Hinckley, who’s written several books and contributed an essay to “Greetings from Route 66,” will be there.
More about the book:
Greetings from Route 66 has a subtitle that says it all: The Ultimate Road Trip Back Through America’s Main Street. Illustrated with over 700 vintage photographs, postcards, travel decals, collectibles and other memorabilia and filled with essays and photography by renowned Route 66 authorities Jim Hinckley, Michael Karl Witzel, Russell A. Olsen, Kathy Weiser, Kerrick James, Lee Klancher and others, Greetings from Route 66 is the ultimate celebration of the “Mother Road”.
And more about the event next Saturday:
Special guest Bob “Boze” Bell, editor of True West Magazine and a former Kingman resident whose father, Al Bell, owned the Flying A gas station in Kingman (profiled in the book), will give away a signed copy of Greetings from Route 66 to one lucky winner. A special commemorative Greetings from Route 66 dash magnet has been created and will be presented to the owners of the first 200 vehicles sporting any Route 66 promotional material from bumper sticker, antenna ball, or home made poster to a Route 66 postcard, brochure or map. Additional prizes include free passes to the Route 66 museum at the Kingman Power House Visitor Center, and a signed Route 66 print by Jim Hinckley.
The Chillin’ with Beale Street event also includes a car show.