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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Route 66"”.
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Time-based media in landscape interpretation: Route 66 at McCook Quarry (Chicago)
… with a one-mile stretch of the historic US Route 66 through it. The quarry had contributed to the construction of the metropolis as well as the highway system, yet its own excavation caused the abandonment of a potion of Route 66. As one point at the start of Route 66, along which many …
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Route 66, where are you? : four cities and the development of a shared cultural resource
… are all pursuing the redevelopment of the Route 66 corridor, this paper focuses on how four urban communities currently are engaging with this cultural resource: Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Rancho Cucamonga, California; and Flagstaff, Arizona. More specifically, the paper …
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The St. Louis Corridor: Mixing, Competing, and Retreating Dialects
… movements tied to both the development of Route 66 and historical periods of population movement. By analyzing new interviews collected for this project as well as existing interviews collected as early as 1972, this dissertation shows both dialect influence and retreat over the course of a …
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Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest
… sideshow impresario, zookeeper, and Route 66 curio shop owner who spent most of his adult life promoting himself as an Apache known as Indian Miller, Chief Crazy Thunder. Miller insisted on his Native American heritage despite the fact that he was born to a European-American family of …
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Travel experience and everyday life experience in the mobilities paradigm
… with 19 Chinese tourists who traveled to the Route 66 and revealed four important aspects of travel experience: gaining knowledge about American culture and history, enjoying nature-based scenery, understanding local’s everyday life, and interacting with local people. Second, an open-ended …
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Formative Assessment: Documenting Motor Vehicle Crashes and Local Perceptions with the Hualapai Tribe to Inform Injury Prevention Recommendations
… per 10 miles per year were estimated for State Route 66 and Diamond Bar Road/Grand Canyon West on or near the reservation due to higher numbers of crashes. Statistical process control charts, especially g-charts monitoring time between events, were plotted to examine the stability in the number …