A combination welcome and vintage Coca-Cola sign in Baxter Springs, one of only two small towns (Galena is the other) in the ever-so-brief (just 11-mile) segment of historic U.S. Route 66 that's in Kansas. That route, from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, was so popular in the early days of two-lane highway travel that it was called The Mother Road. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.