Route 66 Trip

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My son and I drove from Wisconsin, through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas (a little), Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, and back. Maybe 30% non-Interstate, but fairly true to the Dust Bowl refugees of the 1930s and vacationers of the post-WWII Baby Boom. I shot stereotypes and not; abandoned gas stations, tumbleweeds; gorgeous scenery and oddball scenery; a Carson City laundromat with a liquor license and cafeteria; dented nuclear bombs; shoe-sizing X-ray machine. Favorite picture was not shot with my snazzy Nikon DSLR, but by my son with a little Kodak digital: a crushed Lincoln Town Car on an LA street. Slides with "Route 66" song locales are marked with the green music icon.

Transcript of Route 66 Trip

Joe & KevinSummer 2006

= city in “Route 66” song

Springfield

Cozy Dog Drive-In: Birthplace of the Corn Dog

Carlinville: Macoupin County Seat

Approaching

Collinsville . . .

Mt. Olive

St. Louis

Lewis & Clark Museum, under Gateway Arch

Village of Times Beach . . . Before

Village of Times Beach . . . Before

Village of Times Beach . . . Before

After . . .it was declared a toxic waste site,

buried . . .

. . . and turned into a state park.

Rollo, including Stonehenge model built by University of Missouri

engineering students

Jesse James Country

1923 Devil’s Elbow Bridge over Big Piney River

Marshfield: Birthplace of Astronomer Edwin Hubble

Joplin

Bank turned restaurant in Baxter Springs

Okla homa

Downtown Miami (pronounced my-

am-uh)

9-foot wide stretch ofold 66 pavement, south of Miami.

Vinita

Art Deco Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Tulsa

Oklahoma City

National Cowboy Hall of Fame

Deadwood, SD, saddle from Selleck movie Crossfire Trail

Two James Earle Fraser statues, this one and . . .

Lakota Winter Count (calendar)

Also at the National Memorial . . .

Hydro tornado shelter, pedestrian underpass, and . . .

Weatherford

MIG-21 Fishbed

F-16 fighter jet and Sidewinder missle

1957 Sputnik mockup

1975 Apollo-Soyuz coupler

Saturn V engine. Coming soon . . .

Dad’s favorite plane, F-104 Starfighter

1930s Art Deco Post Office emblem

Sayre

Beckham County Courthouse, seen in Grapes of Wrath movie.

McLean

Texas Car Humor

“Bug Ranch,” Conway

Cadillac Ranch

Groom’s 100-foot cross and intentionally leaning water tower

Amarillo

Straddles Texas-New Mexico border

Old 66 dirt road into New Mexico

T for Tucumcari on Tucumcari Mountain

Albuquerque

National Atomic Museum

Unused “Fat Man” bomb, 1945

More dangerous objects . . .

Actual dented nukes from B-52 collision over Spain, 1966

artillery shell nuclear warhead Bikini namesake

Nazi artifacts

crossbow

Shoe store X-ray machine and early “nuclear medicine”

Gallup

Looking into Arizona from west edge of New Mexico

Painted Desert section of Petrified Forest National Forest

Badlands-type area of National Forest

Puerco Pueblo area of Forest, 1100-1400 A.D.

Ancient Petroglyphs

in Winslow, Arizona

Abandoned steel bridge on the edge of Winona.

Flagstaff

Route 66 Trading Postat Seligman

Kingman

Needles

Barstow

Wig Wam Motel, San Bernadino

Pasadena

Los Angeles

Petersen Automotive Museum

1939 Bugatti showroom

1914 Dudley Bug cycle-car

1915 Stutz Bearcat racer

1917 Woods hybrid

1937 REO Speedwagon with Aerocar travel trailer

Elton John’s 1948 Delahaye Cabriolet

1956 Buick, California Highway Patrol

1957 Studebaker Astral prototype, nuclear powered

1960 Taylor-Dunn Trident, built by a California farmer

1963 Chrysler Turbine

Green(?) Monster, 1964 land speed record

Steve McQueen’s 1969 Porsche 911

1970 Mercedes C111

Elvis Presley’s 1971 Pantera; bullet holes in interior

1974 steam-powered Vega

Batmobiles and Batcycle

Jack Lemmon’s “Hannibal 8” in The Great Race, 1965

Standard Red Crowngas pump

2004 Bugatti

1920s grocery store

Hot Wheels Deora II, full-size “model” of the toy car

GM AUTOnomy fuel-cell concept car and test chassis

Seattle Seahawks injury cart

Cadillac cars

LaBrea Tar Pits

Salinas

Salinas High School

National Steinbeck Center

“Doc” Ed Ricketts artifacts

Cannery Row locales

Section of manuscript from The Pearl

Monterey Bay

Sunning cormorants and bathing starfish

Migrant shacks, restaurant/whorehouse in Cannery Row

Wing Chong’s (Lee Chong’s Grocery in novel), now a gift shop

Dr. Ricketts’ Pacific Biological lab

Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park

San Francisco

Chinatown through bad windshield wash job

The York Hotel, site of . . .

Electric bus and apartments

East through the California mountains

Along the American River

July 8 in the Pine Nut Mountains, near Carson City

Fernley Sink

Humboldt Range, elevation 8,000-10,000 feet

L is for Lovelock

Storm over Oquirrh Mountains

Echo Reservoir, outside Coalville

Dix

North Platte Switching Statiion

Carter Lake, Iowa, in the sea of Omaha, Nebraska

Approaching the Mississippi River, again, after 5000 miles

Mile 5468

J & K Tour 06DATE OVERNIGHT IN "ROUTE 66" SONG STOPS

June 22, 2006 Springfield, Illinois From Chicago (Normal, Ill.)June 23, 2006 St. Louis, Missouri St. LouieJune 24, 2006 Joplin, Missouri Joplin, MissouriJune 25, 2006 Oklahoma CityJune 26, 2006 looks oh, so, prettyJune 27, 2006 McLean, TexasJune 28, 2006 Santa Rosa, New Mexico Have you seen Amarillo?June 29, 2006 Gallup, New Mexico Gallup, New Mexico

Flagstaff, ArizonaDon't forget Winona

July 1, 2006 Kingman, Arizona KingmanBarstow

San BernadinoJuly 3, 2006July 4, 2006 to L.A.July 5, 2006 Salinas, CaliforniaJuly 6, 2006July 7, 2006July 8, 2006 Carson City, NevadaJuly 9, 2006 Wells, Nevada

July 10, 2006 Coalville, UtahJuly 11, 2006 Laramie, WyomingJuly 12, 2006 North Platte, NebraskaJuly 13, 2006 Lake Carter, IowaJuly 14, 2006 Cedar Rapids, IowaJuly 15, 2006 Waupun, Wisconsin

Pasadena, California

San Francisco, California

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

June 30, 2006 Flagstaff, Arizona

July 2, 2006 San Bernadino, California