As I might have mentioned, I’d been working for the better part of two years trying to obtain permission to use the image, Highway Diner, Old Route 66, Winslow, Arizona by John Margolies to represent the exterior of Tuttle’s Corner (which is located neither in Winslow nor on Route 66). I have no idea what led me to the Alicia Patterson Foundation website where I first saw the image. A brief look at that site’s content suggests that its stories weren’t the draw, which tells me that it’s unlikely I would have spent enough time browsing the site to have dug up the page containing John’s work and leads me to believe that I must have arrived there from an outside link to which I’m unable to track back; in any event, I’m certain that I saw the image before it ever occurred to me that I’d own and operate a place like Tuttle’s Corner.
Did the image I found give me the idea for Tuttle’s Corner, then? I don’t know. Neither do I know whether I would be sued if it turned out that the image was the father of the idea that all I ever wanted was a place to sit down to write whenever and wherever I liked, to be served coffee and food at no charge and to see so many people going out of their way to visit me for a change.
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