David Clark, aka the Windy City Road Warrior, today provided details on how to acquire his new book, "Exploring Route 66 in Chicagoland: Journeys Through History on the Mother Road in Cook County, Illinois."

Book with standard shipping (media mail): total cost $24

Book with Priority Mail shipping: $27

International or Express deliveries, contact him.

Send Paypal payments to dave@windycityroadwarrior.com, or send checks or money orders to:

David G. Clark
843 W. Adams Street #312
Chicago, IL 60607

Clark also said he should have an order page on his Web site sometime Tuesday.

No, I'm not talking about driving a convertible.

Thejab at Tiki Forum Central recently acquired a July 1966 issue of the girlie magazine Modern Man. In it was an article about the Tiki Kai restaurant along Route 66 in Albuquerque, N.M., where the waitresses served drinks and meals kinda sorta topless (I say kinda sorta because they wore sheer tops and pasties).

Of course, the article's title was "Where to Get Kicks on Route 66."

Thejab has scanned and posted the entire article, including photos. (WARNING: The link to the article might not be work-safe because it contains partial nudity.)

The article is worth perusing for the text alone, written during a time when Playboy clubs were all the rage during the early days of the sexual revolution.

Nowadays, the article seems more quaint and weird than sordid. 

Pizza Marketing Quarterly reports that a third location of Barney's Beanery will open Memorial Day weekend at 99 E. Colorado Blvd. in the Old Town section of Pasadena, Calif.

The newest Barney's Beanery is a near replica of the original West Hollywood Beanery's rowdy atmosphere – complete with road signs, hanging movie and music mementos, candy colored booths and a ceiling of battered old license plates. The food, as always, will be pure American comfort, with breakfast served at all hours: world famous burgers, pizza, burritos and their claim to fame, "The Second Best Chili in Los Angeles".

"Old Town has grown into such a great night life center that we're thrilled to be bringing the Barney's Beanery tradition to this location," said David Houston, co-owner of the restaurant. "The Beanery has been welcoming hungry and thirsty travelers off this road for nearly a century now. Putting another roadhouse on Route 66 makes it even that much more exciting."

The newest venue is housed in a three-story, circa-1890 brick building, part of the original turn-of-the-century architecture along Colorado Blvd. Inside, the meandering bar and multiple dining areas can seat 250, including random lounging spots in the mezzanine and upstairs rooms. And for gamers, five pool tables dot the landscape.

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The original West Hollywood Beanery has been long known for its history as a gathering place beginning with early glamour days stars like Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, and later counterculture musicians like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The West Hollywood venue is still going strong with regulars like Drew Carey, Adam Sandler, Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino, and a slew of notables that reads like Jay Leno's nightly guest list.

• According to WTAX radio in Springfield, Ill., a British film crew is filming a segment about Route 66 in the Land of Lincoln. Also, Steven Spielberg will soon start shooting a film about Abraham Lincoln there.
• David Knudson of the National Historic Route 66 Federation reports that Joe Bono of the historic Bono's restaurant in Fontana, Calif., is in the process of restoring it to its original look and probably will lease it to a chef.
• A Colorado developer plans a huge community of upscale homes and a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course on Ute Lake, about 20 miles north of the Route 66 town of Tucumcari, N.M., according to the San Antonio Express-News. The developer's Web site is here.   

So … did you want to attend the early May 26 screening of "Cars" at Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C., but couldn't before it was sold out?

Don't worry. There's a cool alternative, and it's for a good cause.

Harkins Theatres in the Bricktown area of Oklahoma City is hosting a 3 p.m. Saturday, June 3, screening of "Cars" that will benefit the Oklahoma Library Association endowment fund. That's six days before the wide release of the highly anticipated Pixar film.

The screening will include a pre-screening introduction by Michael Wallis, who served as a Route 66 consultant for the film and provides the voice of the Sheriff in "Cars." Dawn Welch, owner of the Rock Cafe in Stroud, Okla., and an inspiration for Sally the Porsche in "Cars," also will attend.

Ticket prices are $50 apiece, and a mail-in form to buy the tickets is here. Information about the screening is at the association's Web site here. For each ticket, $37.50 of it is tax-deductible. I talked Sunday night to Pat Weaver-Meyers, head librarian, and she assures me that tickets are still available.

There also are VIP tickets for $150 and up that include dinner at the governor's mansion afterword and a classic-car display there. But hurry — the deadline to purchase these VIP tickets is Monday, May 22.

For more information, call the library association at (405) 525-5100.