SELIGMAN — On a crisp winter day, Angel Delgadillo stood in front of his birth home, describing events that occurred nine decades ago as if they’d happened last night. Back then, he said, the ...

This is a little embarrassing to admit but my stomach has dictated much of my writing career. My first book was about Route 66 and the role Arizona played in saving it. I originally stumbled across ...

SELIGMAN, Ariz. — Most mornings, the 91-year-old Mayor of the Mother Road rides his bicycle the few short blocks to his office, a bustling souvenir shop along old U.S. Route 66, the venerable ...

Just after lunchtime in a town that is a monument to yesteryear, an old man is cruising down Route 66 using an eight-speed bicycle. He is tidily dressed in khaki slacks, a navy polo and a baseball cap ...

When the 10 Freeway was completed in the 1950s it was then a marvel of high-speed travel for visitors heading across the Inland Empire to Los Angeles. But it had a significant negative effect of ...

SALISBURY — As Emily Stirewalt has followed David Freeze’s daily dispatches from his bicycle trek along Route 66, she couldn’t help but remember Angel Delgadillo and his barber shop in Seligman, Ariz.

Telling this tale has become Angel Delgadillo's life's work, and he does it without prompting. How he was born right on Route 66 back when Seligman was a railroad town ferrying explorers West. How he ...

SELIGMAN, Ariz. — Just after lunchtime in a town that is a monument to yesteryear, an old man is cruising down Route 66 using an eight-speed bicycle. He is tidily dressed in khaki slacks, a navy polo ...

As we mentioned in earlier listings of 66 Things on Route 66, the town in Arizona that truly embraces the Route 66 legacy and mystique is Seligman. And this attachment to the historic highway for the ...

SELIGMAN, Arizona — They came suddenly and in numbers, cars and trucks weighed down with their owners’ worldly possessions. Angel Delgadillo was a boy when those hundreds of thousands of Dust Bowl ...