Dru'yor, J. Alvin
J. Alvin Dru'yor (August 18, 1903 - April 29, 1990) was an American newspaperman and publisher. Born in Wall Lake, Iowa, Dru'yor graduated from high school in Cherokee, Iowa, after which he attended advertising school in Indiana. He worked for the Cherokee Times and the Elkader Register before moving to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1928 where he purchased the Crawford County Press. He founded the Travelmats Corporation of America in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1948 as a secondary business to the Crawford Country Press, which he sold in 1954 to work full-time at Travelmats to continue to foster its success. He worked at Travelmats until 1972. Dru'yor was a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Masonic Lodge, and the Great River Road Commission, a board member of the Prairie du Chien Foundation and a founding member of the Chamber of Commerce. He married his wife Inez Bock in Tampa, Florida, on February 6, 1928, with whom he had one daughter.
'The Main Street of America'.
This is a 1954 Travelmats Corporation of America pictorial 'Travel mat' illustrating stops along U.S. Route 40 - 'The Main Street of America' - on a stretch spanning four states from San Francisco, California, to Denver, Colorado. Route 40 was one of the first US Highways, having been created in 1926; it once spanned the continent, from San Francisco to Atlantic City. (more details)
Featured Attractions on a Proposed Scenic Highway.
This is a 1961 Travelmats Corporation of America pictorial 'Travel mat' illustrating the proposed Scenic Highway 789, running from Tuscon, Arizona to Greybull, Wyoming. (more details)