Gas station stop on highway 66

Illustration of a gas station on route 66 from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.1,p.145, illustrated edition, by Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "Cars pulling up beside the road, engine heads off, tires mended. Cars limping along 66 like wounded things, panting and struggling... People in flight along 66. And the concrete road shone like a mirror under the sun..."