SCA Weekly News Review: December 27, 2020
Five last stops to make the long car ride of 2020 bearable.
DR PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Caves and Cars on Missouri’s Route 66
The limestones of the Missouri Ozarks are pock marked with show caves that prospered on the traffic of Route 66.
Traces of J.B. Jackson
Traces of J.B. Jackson: The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America
By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
University of Virginia Press, 2020
Hardcover, 328 pages, 51 color and b&w illus., $39.50
Reviewed by Philip Langdon
If commercial archeology had a patron saint, it would doubtless be John Brinckerhoff Jackson. A writer of originality and eloquence, Jackson focused on commonplace buildings and settings for much of his life, including gas stations, roads, signs, and other elements of an automobile-propelled nation.
Includes EXTRA INSIGHTS By Daniel Scully