Old motels evoke past glory of U.S. "Mother Road"
115842
EL RENO, Okla  - Anna Boevers remembers when the Motel Reno did a brisk trade on Route 66, America's first roadway linking the broad interior to the West Coast.
420746
For extraterrestrials passing through rural Bowman on S.C. 36, the center - like any good welcome center - can't be missed. The giant saucers loom behind a rustic post and metal fence just across the road from a country home flying two American flags.
195614
By Minty Clinch  Big sky, big snow, big wagons. That's how the Rockies were when the West was won and that's how they are today. No doubt 19th- century pioneers driving horse-drawn carts cursed the champagne powder fields that barred their progress.
330667
Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
509291
EUGENE, Oregon  - New lights are shining on an old sport in this American university town.
16367
By John Dell, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 10--Curtis Hines said that when he looks around the Gaines Center tonight, the memories will come flooding back.
571901
By Lourdes Medrano, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 12--The grandfather of Mary Wong arrived in Tucson in the early 1880s, searching for the Gold Mountain he had heard so much about in China.
537281
By Robert Sanchez Daily Herald Staff Writer  There's renewed hope for motorists waiting for an Eola Road interchange at I-88.
365764
By Cornell Christensen  Factory Butte has been enjoyed by photographers, adventuresome motorcyclists, ATV riders and windshield gazers from U-24 for decades -- and Bureau of Land Management's new rules for off- highway vehicle use will keep it that way.
487606
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS  TULSA, Okla. - A Plymouth Belvedere that was put in a crypt beneath the courthouse lawn in 1957 to celebrate Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood is set to see the light of day, in time for the centennial. But it might be a little rusty.
701190
The white guard shack still stands, but the American soldiers have long since departed and there s a nostalgic cheapness to the postcards, gas masks, helmets and rusted Maxwell House coffee tins.
443581
Americans love the new wrapped in the   old, which may partly explain the appeal of the Maritime Hotel   in New York whose owners are now embarking on a new hotel   project in Manhattan.
446298
Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
50973
By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN  Town of Grafton  Ken and Marjorie Helms have lived on a farm along I-43 here for most of their 60 years of marriage.  But the days of Ken, 86, and Marjorie, 84, handling the rigors of farm life passed long ago.
548362
By SAMIRA JAFARI HARLAN, Ky. - A dusty gravel driveway leads to an old house once occupied by an Appalachian family. Next door is a little shack that sells hot dogs and ice cream, and a few miles away is a series of coal processing plants.
699760
World War II-era jeeps and trucks rumbled through this town Saturday in ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the deadliest battle in American history, the Battle of the Bulge.
475425
By Joseph Barrios, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 11--PUERTO PEnASCO, Sonora -- In days past, RVs and tents were about the only forms of lodging dotting the long stretch of Sandy Beach, west of downtown Rocky Point.