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Images of the displays in the Hollywood Museum located in the famous Max Factor building in Hollywood.

Some wags say the camel is a horse designed by a committee. The same might be said for the Jefferson Highway! This long forgotten but now much cherished classic American highway once stretched from the pines of Manitoba, Canada to the sultry palms of New Orleans. Mike Conlin, a map maker by trade, is the president of the Jefferson Highway Association with a passion for reconnecting this legendary thoroughfare. The association’s inaugural meeting was chronicled in the spring issue 2011 of American Road Magazine.

The King Drive In has been showing movies to generations of families in their northwestern Alabama town of Russelville.

Pictures from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin.

The Vali Hi Drive In in Lake Elmo, MN is one of two surviving outdoor theaters in St. Paul, MN. Owner Bob O'Neil has owned the moonlight moviehouse since 1978.

Photographer Arnold Berkman created a unique, if controversially named, collection of pictures of Route 66 between Illinois and California. See his full collection at http://www.arnoldberkmanphotography.com/.

Sky View Drive In Litchfield, IL is the last remaining Drive In Theatre on Historic route 66 in Illinois. The theatre now sports an Interactive Wayside marker.

Dave Preston has been an enthusiast of anything with pistons since he was a little tyke. He has been a long time columnist for the American Road Magazine and old friend of editor Thomas Repp and his wife Becky. His deepest passion is reserved for motorcycles which he says are the only way to REALLY appreciate the American Road.

POET is a company that does biorefining which produces ethanol fuel from corn and also from cellulose waste materials. It is based in

Claude Bell was a man who could dream bigger than most men can imagine. Two enormous concrete dinosaurs that command the Mohave desert town of Cabazon, California are silent witnesses to his hard work, persistence and vision. The desert dinos were featured in our spring 2011 American Road Magazine column The World’s Largest Things.