Old motels evoke past glory of U.S. "Mother Road"
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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.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah -- When the baby boomers of St. George were children, radioactive ash from nuclear test explosions in Nevada regularly drifted toward the red bluffs of their town and fell like snow. They played in it and wrote their names in it on car windows.
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Add another stop on Mitt Romney's trip down memory lane in his native Michigan.
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A strong ensemble keeps a memory of a rooming-house childhood from slipping into sentimentality
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The panoramic view from the front steps of Loretta Bares' modest hillside home says a lot about this old, industrial city.
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It&#39;s the kind of place she would feature on an episode of her TV show or in her magazine. Decorated hills overlook the old brick buildings and once-stately homes on Main Street.
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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.
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Years of neglect left the once-thriving business district of this rural community looking just like its name sounds.
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In China, a sprawling lakefront is redeveloped with an eye toward the past.
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n the not-so-distant past, the names Burdines, Rich&#39;s, Goldsmith&#39;s, Bon MarchÃ© and Lazarus had a local glory as the emporiums where customers bought their back-to-school clothes and discovered their Mother&#39;s Day presents.
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Return with me to yesteryear when the St. Johns River was used as a transportation corridor.  That could be the future as well as the past.
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Welcome to the heart and soul of America. A sign greets visitors outside a truck stop with a resounding: &quot;Let freedom reign.&quot; There is one white, wooden evangelical church and lots of Bush-Cheney posters along the roadside.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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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.
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Willie Nelson hasn't forgotten the town that knew him before he was famous.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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You have to travel back in time to get from the nearest town to the chipped and wind-whipped little stone face that peers out over the Missouri River and the endless plains beyond.