‘Route 66’ Author to Speak at Museum

Michael Wallis, author of “Route 66: The Mother Road,” will speak March 1 at the Fullerton Museum Center, which now has an exhibit of photographs along the fabled highway.

Wallis will speak at 2 p.m. and then will sign his book, which he calls a love letter to the highway.

“I learned how to drive on it, cruised with my first date on it and ate my first enchilada along it,” he said.

The exhibit consists of photographs by St. Louis photographer Shellee Graham.

The pictures are of historic and off-beat locations along Route 66, which runs from Chicago to Santa Monica.

The book, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, tells “the good, the bad and the ugly of the road,” Wallis said.

Tickets for the Wallis program are $18 to $20. The museum is at 301 N. Pomona Ave.

Reservations: (714) 738-6545.