You meet fascinating people. There are so many people we met along the way who enriched our journey — there was Bob the Mayor of Pontiac, Gary and his wife Lena at their restored gas station in Missouri and Pete on the train to Santa Fe to name but a few. Each of them had great stories to tell of their lives that are so far removed from our own.
The picture below is of me with Gary and Lena. Rather worryingly, Lena and I had matching shoes! You can check out their website here and you may just spy some of our other photos from our visit with Gary there too! There are so many quirky roadside attractions! This is a picture of the Largest Rocking chair. While traveling on Route 66, he was inspired to start penning the lyrics for a tune about the roadway.
Old motel sign along historic route During the segregation era, African Americans were banned from many motels, restaurants and other businesses along Route In , Victor H. The Green Book series continued to be published until During their travels, the two drifters, originally played by Martin Milner and George Maharis, encounter a broad variety of characters, and the show featured guest stars ranging from Joan Crawford to a young Robert Redford. Eisenhower during World War II.
Credit: Imperial War Museum. Eisenhower first became aware of the need for better highways in , when he participated in a U. In response the federal government pledged to link small town USA with all of the metropolitan capitals. The period of historical significance for Route 66 is to The national system of public highways brought geographic cohesion and economic prosperity to the disparate regions of the country.
As a component of the federal network, Route 66 linked the isolated and predominantly rural West to the densely populated urban Midwest and Northeast.
California, and sadly it's one of the last remaining motels of its kind, with individual wigwams for each motel room. Spacious inside, a bit of nostalgia is rekindled with each stay. Another still exists in Holbrook, Arizona. The end of World War II saw a huge swell of automobile traffic and Route 66 became more popular than ever, carrying far more cars than it was ever designed to hold. Then in , Nat King Cole invited everybody to "get your kicks on Route 66" which just added to the roads mystic.
Suddenly, everybody needed to see the places Nat King Cole was crooning about. Listen to the song Route 66 and see more great photos here. The song has been recorded by many others since including probably the most well-known version by the Rolling Stones. Nat King Cole. If you ever plan to motor west, Travel my way, take the highway that is best.
Get your kicks on Route It winds from Chicago to LA, More than two thousand miles all the way. Don't forget winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino. Won't you get hip to this timely tip When you make that California trip Get your kicks on Route Won't you get hip to this timely tip: When you make that California trip Get your kicks on Route From , there was a television series called — you guessed it — Route 66, which had two adventurers making their way across the famous road.
So yup, even more people took to the road. Even kids now know about Route The Disney movie Cars was originally titled "Route 66," and the fictional town of Radiator Springs is on Route 66 and the movie's plot deals with the decline of the road when it was bypassed by a super highway.
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