Framed by what once was a gas station window, a car travels west on old U.S. Route 66 near Needles, California. With the arrival of Interstate 40, many towns along Route 66 were condemed by the very brand of progress that originally energized them -- a new, faster highway system. Businesses closed, people left, buildings decayed.
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