100 Years on the Road
Pontiac, Illinois, motoring along the Route 66 trail in his RAM 1500, Peter Rancie, Co-Founder of Veritas Chronicles has driven hundreds of thousands of miles across, and up and down, and around the USA since his first visit in 1985. Many of the highways, especially...
Route 66: The Long Road Out of Depression Into a Century of Optimism Established in 1926, the ensuing Great Depression meant the story of Route 66 became a road from and to despair for some, and a quirky, nostalgic trip for others, depending on era and circumstance.
Route 66 was a major highway of hope and despair, agony and ecstasy, during the Great Depression era. This is the US highway system as proclaimed in 1926 In later years, the quirky side of Route 66 became more evident. Route 66, established in 1926, played a crucial...
Route 66: An Unusual “Hero” of WW2 This famous US highway played a direct role in the domestic war effort by facilitating logistics, troop movements, and economic shifts from the US's industrial eastern hubs to the west and south-west.
B24’s in production. Many defense industries relocated westward, particularly aircraft manufacturing in California. Companies like Lockheed and Douglas relied on the paved Route 66 (paving was completed in 1938) to receive necessary components for airplane production....
Oh, Jerusalem Scenes of worship, conflict and battle have engulfed this city for some 5,000 years
Cradle of Christianity, residence and battle ground of Abraham’s descendants, Jerusalem has been the setting for reverent worship, of many faiths, and a bloody battleground for millennia. We wonder what choices the boy pictured here, circa 2003, has made in the 21...
