The Route 66 Photo Workshop - 2006

In Tom's Welding and Machine Shop, Barstow, California.

A cheerful waitress at Peggy Sue's 50s diner, in Yermo, California, where we enjoyed dinner after our full day of photography along Route 66.

The owner of the Bagdad Cafe holds the signature prop used in the cult film of the same name. The Thermos - like the movie - was full of magical realism and filming took place in and around the cafe, located in Newberry Springs, California, along Route 66.

Folk Art Along Route 66, near Oro Grande, California

The day had been clear, but as darkness descended over the desert and Route 66, amorphous clouds began to form over the old cafe. The clouds turned colorful for a few minutes, before vanishing as quickly as they had appeared.

Photographed after dark at the Route 66 Motel, Barstow, California.

"Dino" runs amok at the A1 Towing yard.

It's hood open like a massive metal maw, this old truck is slowly rusting away in the "boneyard" at the National Chloride company, in Amboy, California.

This is a Whiting Brothers gas pump at Station 51, which closed in 1968.

At Amboy, California, near Route 66

An old typwriter rusts away in the desert air, yards from the cracked pavement of historic Route 66..

For reasons perhaps best understood by her owner, and certainly left unarticulated by me, this mannequin resides in a corner of a bedroom in a house just off Route 66.

This is the man who plants and harvests the bottle trees, near Oro Grande and Victorville, along Route 66.

With the ascendency of cell phones, there is not much call for phone booths these days, or phone books. This book hangs in an abandoned booth at Tom's Welding, near Route 66, in Barstow, CA.

A lizard slithers over the lichen-covered rocs the Pisgah Crater, off Route 66.

Sunlight seemed to kiss the form of the marathon man, who serves as the symbol of the old gasoline company.

Camera: Minolta A1

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