Route 66

The Bridgeville Area Historical Society reverted to its Winter schedule the last Sunday in January with an entertaining presentation on historic Route 66. The speaker, Dick Gaetano, began his talk with an explanation of his lifelong fascination with that highway. In 1949 his family acquired their first automobile since pre-WWII days and christened it by driving to California and back, primarily on Route 66. Dick recounted memories of the excitement of the trip, including visiting the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canyon and crossing the desert with a Lister bag hanging in front of the car’s radiator. I recall Ed…