Photo of the Day 363

Crumbling Billboard, Arizona, 1997

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

A crumbling billboard overlooks Arizona’s historic stretch of Route 66. This fabled road once linked towns of all sizes from Chicago to Los Angeles, serving as the main thoroughfare for generations of westward migrants.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Romancing the Road," September 1997, National Geographic magazine)