Volume 9 , Issue 17

Route 66 - The Mother Road

John Steinbeck once said, "66 is the mother road, the road of flight." The Okies knew it as the "glory road." AND... Because it went through so many towns, it became the "Main Street of America."

Route 66 spanned two-thirds of the nation and was christened in 1926, when the nation was between wars and Calvin Coolidge was Presdient.

It linked much of the nation through the inspiration to literature, music, drama, art, and a nation of dreamers. It was a highway fashioned from vision, ingenuity and replaced in many areas with a broken chain of concrete, asphalt and Interstate 40 (I40).

According to the book, Route 66 The Mother Road, by Michael Wallis, "Route 66 started at Grant Park in Chicago, reached across more than 2,400 miles, three time zones, and eight states -- Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California -- as it dead-ended at Santa Monica Boulevard & Ocean Avenue ... People like to say the highway started at Lake Michigan and ended in the roaring Pacific. It was one of the country's first continuous spans of paved highway linking East and West."
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