A Brief History of US Highway Route 66

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

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  • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
    @LetsGoRoadTrippin  5 лет назад +44

    I would love to hear your Route 66 stories!

    • @grimreaper4643
      @grimreaper4643 4 года назад +1

      Me tooooooo!

    • @lyrictroy6717
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      @greysonvan2637 3 года назад

      @Lyric Troy instablaster :)

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    • @lyrictroy6717
      @lyrictroy6717 3 года назад

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      Thanks so much, you really help me out !

  • @ShadyBoy1031
    @ShadyBoy1031 2 года назад +18

    America really needs to make route 66 popular again. I think there are more people interested in it than the government may realize.

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 2 года назад +3

      There sure is.
      Just look in Hobby Lobby stores

  • @swapnil2763
    @swapnil2763 2 года назад +35

    I'm from India and I've always wondered about Route 66 cuz it's been mentioned in many American shows and movies. Thank you so much for the short and great explanation and a brief history about route 66.

    • @SUPREETH.
      @SUPREETH. 2 года назад +2

      same

    • @cavecookie1
      @cavecookie1 Год назад +2

      It's interesting that a lot of Indians have bought up all those cool old motels along Rt.66 and have restored and reopened them, with ridiculously low room rates. Nice that they're keeping that nostalgia alive!

    • @garyfrancis6193
      @garyfrancis6193 3 месяца назад

      “ coz” is not a word.

  • @francineroot-adler7205
    @francineroot-adler7205 2 года назад +12

    In 1959 my family traveled from Chicago to see our family in LA. It was the only way to go! I remember the Burma Shave signs too. Now it's on my bucket list to re ride Route 66! Thanks for the history!

  • @garcia681
    @garcia681 4 года назад +127

    I learned from cars

  • @florpulido3261
    @florpulido3261 4 года назад +40

    There is also a chunk section in Barstow off the 15n freeway. All of main street is route 66. I've only followed it from barstow to victorville just to get away from all the traffic. Really amazing highway to drive on.

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  4 года назад +2

      Nice! Always nice to get away from traffic :)

    • @nlpnt
      @nlpnt Год назад

      Most of old US-66 in CA is SR 66 and open to traffic. The exceptions are the stretch running through the Marine base at Barstow (controlled access since 9/11) and the Colorado River crossing coming into the state (if you're taking the Oatman alignment in western AZ you can cut through the reservation straight into Needles - if you do, top your tank up at the tribal-owned Thalypo gas station). Also, the various alignments through LA are all open to (and full of) traffic but have various route numbers.

  • @ClawBoss
    @ClawBoss 3 года назад +12

    Just finished my Route 66 road trip today. Love it! Great video!

  • @estelleadamski308
    @estelleadamski308 3 года назад +9

    when I was 5 we left KS. and drove to CA. on RT. 66. My parents never told me' You are on the Famous Mother Road" it was just a road then. we drove it all at once, my dad only stopping for naps. It was a long drive and I remember all the roadside attractions and billboards and seeing Indian children and teepees being depicted on everyone. I am so glad for that road trip and I have always had the travel bug, in June I visited my 50th state!

    • @brendas1346
      @brendas1346 3 года назад +1

      Congrats! Visiting all 50 states is on my bucket list. Only 12 to go.

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588
    @robertortiz-wilson1588 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wonderful overview! Truly a great piece of Americana! Many things truly get lost in the rush of things.

  • @notavailableatthemoment7623
    @notavailableatthemoment7623 3 года назад +15

    I love this so much! Thank you for teaching me and future generations about Route 66!

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  3 года назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @VIC-ds8pd
      @VIC-ds8pd 3 года назад

      i see your boyfriend all over on here, just some guy with a mustache

  • @mattcolver1
    @mattcolver1 Год назад +1

    For 22 years I had a vacation home about 20 minutes from Oatman, Az. I used to drive that section of 66 over Sitgreaves Pass a lot since it was probably the most beautiful stretch of Route 66 and made for a nice afternoon drive.

  • @VianoMusicAcademy
    @VianoMusicAcademy 3 года назад +7

    I just drove the entire route from Chicago to Santa Monica. I may be back in NYC, but the Route is still with me.

    • @brendas1346
      @brendas1346 3 года назад +2

      I will be driving a small portion of Route 66 in Illinois next week from Pontiac to Springfield. Did you have any problems following the historic route between these two cities?

    • @VianoMusicAcademy
      @VianoMusicAcademy 3 года назад +2

      @@brendas1346 no, it’s straightforward and has Historic Route 66 signs.

  • @dstarsbravo
    @dstarsbravo 4 года назад +13

    I just moved to Oklahoma City and love living so close to Route 66 and all it’s roadside attractions.

    • @Finnie1203
      @Finnie1203 2 года назад

      Is Oklahoma City oh so pretty?

  • @samphillips4124
    @samphillips4124 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for mentioning Oatman Arizona, that stretch is our absolute favorite!

  • @jamsum7215
    @jamsum7215 2 года назад +17

    For those who don’t know, it was John Steinbeck’s 1940 book The Grapes of Wrath that coined the term “The Mother Road”
    “66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all of these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.”

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 2 года назад +1

      During the GREAT DEPRESSION. it was the way to CA, where there were farms and food.
      Now, it's part of Route 40
      Also. People loved the BOBBY TROUP song.
      He was with JULIE LONDON and HACK WEBB
      the show EMERGENCY which they were in, may have been a factor for starting EMTs..firefighters connecting with ambulance

  • @lw3764
    @lw3764 2 года назад +2

    I just got back from a trip to California and the Grand Canyon, the second time in my life I've made such a trip, and it was only late into the trip that I realized we were basically more or less following route 66. I live in central Illinois near I 55, and my mom played the song Route 66 a lot, so I already knew a bit about Route 66 but it was one of the unexpected cool things about this trip that I ended up running smack into the history of Route 66.

  • @Masterlewger
    @Masterlewger 2 года назад +1

    I always wondered why this road was so famous, like apearing in video games and tv shows, cartoons, animes, everywhere. Now i finally know, ty

  • @auntlynnonline6206
    @auntlynnonline6206 4 года назад +8

    Wow! This is a great video. Thank you! I drove over the road for a few years, and have been on these highways many times - I was always curious about Route 66. I've been on parts of the old highway and wondered about the Glory Days of it. I think I'm going to have to do a road trip in my car and take it from start to finish.

  • @lisasmith9311
    @lisasmith9311 2 года назад +3

    My father Bill Swan made a lot of iconic fiberglass statues which are placed along Route 66 some of which are in new short Amazon book for only 14.99 called "The man behind the mufflerman ".

  • @robdonnelly6537
    @robdonnelly6537 4 года назад +3

    Living in Tulsa, I've heard about the route all my life. Been up both ends of 44 between St Louis and OKC hundreds of times but only last year, had I ventured west on 40 beyond OKC. That trip we went to Phoenix and saw a side of this beautiful country id never seen before! Absolutely amazing...
    And also, can't leave my comment without mentioning some of our favorite stops on the route: Redmon's candy factory, and one of my personal favorites, Cline's Corner!

  • @scratchpad7954
    @scratchpad7954 Год назад

    I just watched this video and I actually started to get a little bit emotional. I remember seeing the first Cars movie when it came out and had the privilege of getting it on DVD. For many years as a kid, I could not watch the flashback montage of Radiator Springs without shedding a tear or two, and I have Our Town by James Taylor to thank for that; I think I even have a vague memory of bursting into ugly tears in the cinema due to how nostalgic the song is. The song's nostalgically wistful atmosphere was about this very thing: Highway 66 being replaced by the interstate highway system and the freeway corridors of I-55, I-44, I-40, I-15, and I-10 completely bypassing the multitudes of small towns and suburbs of larger cities that sprung up along the routing by as much as several dozen miles. On top of this, it reflects on the paradigm shift in the lifestyles of the residents of these towns for the worse due to the economic annihilation the freeway system wrought upon these areas since the clientele their businesses relied on to stay in the black was diverted away.

  • @lmfd7373
    @lmfd7373 4 года назад +4

    I loved growing up in St Louis we had a huge piece of Route 66 which still exist today

  • @damienrubio9585
    @damienrubio9585 2 года назад +1

    Just did the section from Needles to Barstow, parallel to Interstate 40, coming back home from Arizona. Nothing like open road single lane American blacktop.

  • @59771006
    @59771006 3 года назад +3

    The official end of Route 66 is a restaurant called Mel’s Drive-in which can be found at 1670 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

  • @ms.annthrope415
    @ms.annthrope415 Год назад

    Just drive from Tulsa through OKC on I-40. Ran parallel Route 66. Pulled off once or twice just so I could say I was on Route 66. Drive all the way to the Big Texan in Amarlllo to have a small steak dinner just to say I've been there. Drove through New Mexico and looped north to Santa Fe. I've driven from Santa Monica eastward through Barstow to Oatman and Arizona. Wonderful road to match with the history.

  • @1964catt
    @1964catt 2 года назад +1

    thank you Pixar Cars for shedding some light on this high way

  • @SomeplaceOrAnother
    @SomeplaceOrAnother 4 года назад +16

    Extremely interesting video, well done👍 I drove parts of it a couple years ago, a very enjoyable experience.

  • @romiemiller7876
    @romiemiller7876 2 года назад +1

    The "Route 66" TV show does still have a lot of influence on the highway's popularity. Plus, there's a lot of history, as you outline. I live in Albuquerque. Central Av. is the main route through the city, and it is also Route 66. It's a big deal here.

  • @lesliehinton7156
    @lesliehinton7156 4 года назад +3

    I live on Route 66! It's a beautiful ride on the Harley!!!

  • @vikilittle526
    @vikilittle526 3 года назад +2

    Thanks for the research links!

  • @anjaliparanjape9582
    @anjaliparanjape9582 4 года назад +3

    Awesome History 👍 Great Route 66 will try to Drive through it someday 👌

  • @martinschulz9381
    @martinschulz9381 3 года назад +2

    Yes, the coming of freeways was bitter sweet. Now many of the stops are boring with the same chain gas stations and businesses. Some places are actually trying to change that now though.

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  3 года назад +2

      Yes. Wally's is a new stop in Pontiac, IL. HUGE place. A little different than most truck stops, and embraces Route 66. Rumor has it that they are opening a few more along the route.

  • @Trailfloater
    @Trailfloater 2 года назад +2

    Do you have a video of how anybody could make those travel trails ? Seemed interesting

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  2 года назад +1

      Sorry for the late reply. I will look into that and see what I can find.

  • @moiseszamora2629
    @moiseszamora2629 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for the video I was always wondering why it was so popular you just earned a sub

  • @johnbehneman1546
    @johnbehneman1546 3 года назад +1

    TOTALLY AWESOME EDUCATION!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!! I LEARNED SO MUCH!!!

  • @godspeedtransport5981
    @godspeedtransport5981 5 лет назад +2

    Great video. And 66 runs right through my town. I live just a mile south or it. Awesome 👏

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  5 лет назад

      Thanks :) It is interesting to live near some cool history!

  • @VanWolf
    @VanWolf 4 года назад +12

    Younger drivers say that driving on Route 66 is cheesy and a boomer thing. But man, i would gladly drive that entire road if i could

    • @VianoMusicAcademy
      @VianoMusicAcademy 3 года назад

      Do it!

    • @slapshotjack9806
      @slapshotjack9806 2 года назад +2

      @@VianoMusicAcademy when my first car starts to see the end of its useful lifespan I want to go on a journey on that route to have some good last memory’s with it that I know will never be forgotten before I get my next vehicle

    • @VianoMusicAcademy
      @VianoMusicAcademy 2 года назад +1

      @@slapshotjack9806 that’s a great idea!

    • @slapshotjack9806
      @slapshotjack9806 2 года назад +1

      @@VianoMusicAcademy before sending it on the road to car heaven

  • @kenb5257
    @kenb5257 5 лет назад +3

    Great video. Great editing. Great job. Keep it up.

  • @gustavogaray536
    @gustavogaray536 2 года назад +1

    I like me so much this video.very good

  • @LyleFrancisDelp
    @LyleFrancisDelp Год назад

    Ricardos and Mertzes drove Rte 66 on their way to California. Went through Ethel’s home town of AlbuhKoiKee. I wonder if they took that famous left TOIN. (IYKYK)

  • @josephhouk6703
    @josephhouk6703 Год назад

    I have driven Route 66, from Bloomington, IL to Williams, AZ - though not consecutively.

  • @dansimon1100
    @dansimon1100 2 года назад +1

    I'm probably been on parts of it but never realized it but I still would love to do a whole Road Trip of Route 66 it would be interesting

  • @johnbehneman1546
    @johnbehneman1546 2 месяца назад

    THANK YOU SO MUCH.

  • @scotta.3866
    @scotta.3866 5 лет назад +2

    Nicely done!!

  • @cutesugarstream
    @cutesugarstream 3 года назад +2

    For me, it's famous. For me, I think it's famous for fast food restaurant and Disney film cars. I would like to take a journey there too.

  • @richardvalitalo3670
    @richardvalitalo3670 2 года назад +3

    I hope businesses are gearing up for 2026 100 years anniversary, that would be cool to travel then.

  • @martajajackson1836
    @martajajackson1836 4 года назад +2

    Thank you for this.
    It's so neat!👍👍👍

  • @stevez4120
    @stevez4120 Год назад

    2022 here and my car did the whole thing for me!

  • @nobudgetshowpo
    @nobudgetshowpo 5 лет назад +4

    Informative great video 👍

  • @LTMCMedia
    @LTMCMedia 4 года назад

    K this is added to the road trip bucket list

  • @BGTuyau
    @BGTuyau 4 месяца назад

    Nice video -but Route 66 heads west on Adams Street in Chicago, not Jackson. Jackson Blvd., a block south and parallel to Adams, is the final stretch eastbound. And one can still travel former Route 66 alignments without interruption except for a brief stretch in the southwest suburbs of Chicago where I-55 was built over the old roadway.

  • @czarinalewis5330
    @czarinalewis5330 Месяц назад

    I'd like to see a video about the Auto Trail System.

  • @goplatanew
    @goplatanew 4 года назад +1

    Excellent

  • @JarvMonster
    @JarvMonster 3 года назад +1

    Excellent production! You really stepped up your graphics and imaging. Can I ask what video editor you use?

  • @foundationaerial8141
    @foundationaerial8141 5 лет назад +1

    Great video Brad

  • @dannystricker854
    @dannystricker854 2 года назад

    The new Google video is a kick in the pants and brings back many fun memories...thanks Google

  • @AronMartinius
    @AronMartinius 3 года назад

    Whats the name of the song that starts at 0:58?

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  3 года назад +1

      It is just some Royalty Free Music I downloaded when I had a subscription. Possibly from Epidemic Music

  • @judithgraham7218
    @judithgraham7218 2 года назад +1

    I was on 66 in 1956 and 59 going to Santa Ana California my dad did construction at Disneyland

  • @asmith8898
    @asmith8898 4 года назад +1

    Not knowing that LA is Louisiana and L.A. but giving us a history lesson. 😒

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 4 года назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @stevezappa1642
    @stevezappa1642 2 года назад +1

    The Grapes of Wrath brought me here. I'm a quarter of the way into the novel.

  • @LyleFrancisDelp
    @LyleFrancisDelp Год назад

    Some day, I would love to drive Rte 66. American history.

  • @lucycarin
    @lucycarin Год назад

    My great grandfather 1868-1967…Richard Baker…pioneered the area east of the current Big Tex near Amarillo and lived til he died on the side of Route 66. My cuz also a Richard Baker..has a peace…tribute piece off to the north on the land he still owns there. Our aunt had a diner in east Amarillo also on Route 66 in the 1950s. It truly was and should be…a scenic ride….✌🏼

  • @tibaltsapprentice
    @tibaltsapprentice 5 лет назад +1

    Awesome! I loved this!

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  5 лет назад

      Thanks for watching! Glad you loved it :)

    • @tibaltsapprentice
      @tibaltsapprentice 5 лет назад +1

      @@LetsGoRoadTrippin I am sorry I did not get to see it when it premiered! but I look forward to seeing more

  • @mariakapagianni8441
    @mariakapagianni8441 3 года назад +1

    Hmm now where have I heard about this road before?? *Thinks of the cars movies*

  • @carlavision6143
    @carlavision6143 3 года назад

    Really enjoyed your video! Just subscribed to your channel. Wish I could see some of Route 66 but, not able to because, I'm handicap and have nobody to take me.

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 2 года назад +1

    A celebration of the 95th Anniversary of the "Mother Road", Route 66. 🛣️

  • @i3wack434
    @i3wack434 3 года назад

    6:45, Same reason is also mentioned in Cars movie from Disney. damn that was real incidence.

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  3 года назад +1

      I didn't know that. I think I only saw that movie one time, and it was a long time ago!

    • @i3wack434
      @i3wack434 3 года назад +1

      @@LetsGoRoadTrippin You can watch it again, a small clip named 'The History of Radiator Springs! | Pixar Cars' . It is available on RUclips on official channel 'Pixel Cars'.

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  3 года назад +1

      @@i3wack434 Sweet! I just checked it out. I am bummed they had to even bypass Radiator Springs with I-40. :( LOL

  • @jineshmadathil752
    @jineshmadathil752 3 года назад +2

    66 comment from india --kerala

  • @mikoverses
    @mikoverses 3 года назад +2

    I am a kid who is eager to drive on here.

  • @LyleFrancisDelp
    @LyleFrancisDelp Год назад

    Rte 66 was the route the Ricardos and Mertzes took to California. I Love Lucy.

  • @happygus1304
    @happygus1304 2 года назад

    1:31 Springfield whaaa

  • @Robbie06261995
    @Robbie06261995 3 года назад +2

    Fortunately thanks to us locals, Ted Drewes isn't going anywhere anytime soon and it's still a big tourist draw.

  • @skeleguns10oooooo10
    @skeleguns10oooooo10 4 года назад +2

    The United States Numbered Highway system was established in 1926.

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  4 года назад +1

      It has been a minute since I did this video, did I get the year wrong? Can you send a link showing me? I tried very hard to get the information correct.

  • @coleskiiii
    @coleskiiii 3 года назад +1

    Here for school:/

  • @creatureshategod6471
    @creatureshategod6471 5 лет назад +1

    Well done. Cheers. Thadi di mak... Choke dee.

  • @speedlearner
    @speedlearner 4 года назад

    Who finally won the foot race?

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  4 года назад +1

      I tried to find that, and I couldn't :(

    • @rogers2778
      @rogers2778 3 года назад +1

      The Bunion Derby was won by Andy Payne, from Foyil, Oklahoma. There is a statue of Andy on the 1926 alignment in Foyil.

  • @davidf67
    @davidf67 2 года назад +1

    Stay off the I-55/44/40/15/10 interstates. Doing the interstate is not doing Rt66

    • @LetsGoRoadTrippin
      @LetsGoRoadTrippin  2 года назад +1

      You are right about that. Unfortunately when I have driven it, I was not able to take the real routes as much as I wanted to. I was able to get some of them in the Southwest.

    • @ellafields9424
      @ellafields9424 Год назад

      David F.
      In parts of NM you have One choice Thats I-40 cause #66 is out in pasture land in places.

  • @johnbehneman1546
    @johnbehneman1546 2 месяца назад

    SUGGESTION: RESTORE ROUTE 66 HIGHWAY FOR THE LA OLYMPICS IN 2028!!!!

  • @jodyjohnson265
    @jodyjohnson265 Год назад

    So that's why cars was inspired by root 66

  • @Pol_Pot_Anti_Glasses_Gang
    @Pol_Pot_Anti_Glasses_Gang 2 года назад

    Why is it called "Route 66" ? Are there French connection with this road ?

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 4 месяца назад

    Get your kicks, on Route 66

  • @farhanjamal2844
    @farhanjamal2844 2 года назад

    i like it too bad it was replaced by I-55,I-44,I-40,I-15,Arroyo Seco Parkway,and I-10

  • @actionjackson9554
    @actionjackson9554 5 месяцев назад

    Rebuild route 66

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 4 месяца назад

    Steinbeck highway

  • @onejostar
    @onejostar 3 года назад

    Kachow.

  • @ryanjagpal123
    @ryanjagpal123 2 года назад

    Route 66 is haunted now right

  • @finndog2759
    @finndog2759 2 года назад +2

    Lol. Rt.66. Ain't no different than any other highway. Take Rt. 219 coming out of Buffalo, NY and used to run all the way to Florida. There's more important routes in this country than rt. 66

    • @ellafields9424
      @ellafields9424 Год назад

      Finn P
      Sorry but you can't change history. 🤭

  • @yourbrother2320
    @yourbrother2320 2 года назад

    Honestly i never hear anything abt 66