Dave Wyman's Gallery
The Mother Road - The Route 66 Galleries
Route 66 - The Mother Road
Go ahead - stay home. Sit on your couch and watch the drivel on your television. Limp along in the slow lane of your life. Or grab your photo gear and your sense of adventure, bring along a road map, and travel to a remote stretch of deserted highway. Prepare to lose yourself in a land of weathered cultural icons left behind by those who, once upon a time, carried on a love affair with desert.
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Sun Pillar at Sunset, Barstow Sun Pillars are rare optical phenomena. Click here - http://www.pbase.com/image/7939154 - to view another one, at dawn, over Mono Lake. This one is over the BNSF rail yard, in Barstow, California, in the Mojave desert.
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Sunset over Old Barstow
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Late Light Above Roys
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Broken Glass Litter takes on a look of stained glass in the Mojave desert, along Route 66.
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You Too Can Grow Iron Mushrooms! This is a portion of a giant rolling pin, once used by the National Chloride Company, to tamp down the salt flats in the Mojave desert near Amboy, California.
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Bring Your Juke Box Money! The B-52s would love this juke box, on display in the Route 66 Museum, in Barstow, California.
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Detail on the BNSF Close-up look at the underside of an engine of the Burlington Norhtern - Santa Fe railroad company. This engine was on a siding in the Mojave desert.
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Tracks in the Salt The image is somewhat abstract - vehicle tracks in the salt at the National Chloride Company, Amboy, California
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Hood Ornament This ornament is on the hood of an old Cadillac on display in the parking lot of the Route 66 Motel, in Barstow, California
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Love Birds II These two are on permanant display at the Route 66 Motel, in Barstow, California.
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Love Birds Don and Janet Riddle - They are the retired school bus drivers for the Amboy school, which closed in 1997. When I made this picture, in early February, 2003, Don and Janet had been ordered out of their home behind the school, where they had lived for many years, by the county school board. They managed a sunny attitude.
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Stars of the Bagdad Cafe The diners at the Bagdad Cafe, in Newberry Springs, were both in the film of the same name - a cult film worth seeing - and were enjoying lunch the day our photography workshop group dropped in for a meal. Lyn and Pat Wright were two of the many authentic "characters" in the film, made on location in the Mojave desert. Pat has worked single handly to bring fame to the little cafe and the film, both of which effortly serve up dishes of myth and reality.
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Triple Reflection - Roys Motel and Cafe Light reflected off my subject - the man wth his sunglasses - and into my camera, while we stood in front of Roy's Cafe and Motel, in Amboy, in the Mojave desert. The sunglasses reflected Roy's Cafe and Motel sign. And the sign is reflected again, dimly, in the pupil of the eye.
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The Cook on Break The cook at the famous Bagdad Cafe takes a break - Newberry Springs, Mojave desert, California, USA
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Ive Been Workin on the Railroad This Burlington Northern/Sante Fe (BNSF) employee graciously posed for me in front of the historic Harvey House train depot, Barstow, California, in the Mojave desert.
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Bike, Toms Welding "Stuff" is everywhere at Tom's Welding, in Barstow, located along Old Highway 58, and a few minutes from historic Route 66.
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Gas Pump, Roys Cafe Route 66, Amboy, California
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The Welder A trick of perspective makes it appear this figure of a welder is working on the old Standard Oil sign.
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Daggett Cemetery The little community of Daggett lies just east of Barstow, in the Mojave desert of California. Many of the graves in the Pioneer Cemetery - alongside historic Route 66 - are unmarked, but those who rest there have not been forgotten.
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Route 66 Reflection This old car sits in the parking lot at the Route 66 Motel, in Barstow, California. The Route 66 Motel's neon sign reflects in the windshield.
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Headlamp Close view of a headlamp on an old truck at the National Chloride Company, in Amboy, California, just off Route 66.
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Moon Over Route 66 The famed Route 66 Motel sign, in Barstow - Mojave Desert
Sun Pillar at Sunset, Barstow
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Sunset over Old Barstow
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Late Light Above Roys
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You Too Can Grow Iron Mushrooms!
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Bring Your Juke Box Money!
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Detail on the BNSF
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Tracks in the Salt
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Stars of the Bagdad Cafe
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Triple Reflection - Roys Motel and Cafe
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The Cook on Break
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Ive Been Workin on the Railroad
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Bike, Toms Welding
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Gas Pump, Roys Cafe
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Daggett Cemetery
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Route 66 Reflection
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Moon Over Route 66
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