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ROUTE 66

THE MOTHER ROAD

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Route 66-A ProjectRoute 66-A Project

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• Roadside diners

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• Neon……..

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• The beauty of America

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• Today, decay is something the traveler can not miss.

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• Route 66

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The Car and Route 66The Car and Route 66

• Before we can talk about Route 66, we need to look at the automobile.

• IT LITERALLY CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE OF AMERICA.

• The car liberated isolated families in rural areas. Now, they could drive to the city, shop and seek entertainment.

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• The car allowed both women and young people to become more independent through increased mobility.

• Indeed, the car was the first truly private place where men and women could meet…..

• The car also allowed workers the opportunity to live miles from their jobs—often more cheaply than if they had lived closer to those jobs.

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• Of course, all of this creates what we call “urban sprawl”.

• The car industry would provide an economic base for towns like Akron and Detroit, Flint and Pontiac.

• The auto industry symbolized “the success of the free enterprise system and the Coolidge era”.

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• By the late 1920s, around 80% of all registered automobiles in the world were in the United States—about 1 car per 5 people.

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Route 66—A ProjectRoute 66—A Project

Route 66 gets its start in 1857 when a Lieutenant Ed Beale—an officer in the U.S. Army Corps-- was ordered by the War Department to build a government-funded wagon road across the 35th parallel.

It would become a part of 66.

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• It would be businessman, Cyrus Avery, who would become champion of Route 66—a number settled upon because Avery thought the double-digit number would be both easy to remember as well as pleasant to say and hear.

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• It would be completely paved in 1938 and traffic grew and grew. Essentially flat, it was a popular route for truckers and automobile drivers alike.

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• The Route passed through both pleasant and dangerous places alike: more than one stretch of the highway was nicknamed “Bloody 66”.

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• Steep sections through the Sandias in New Mexico and the Black Mountains in Arizona were fraught with sharp, hairpin turns which managed to frighten more than one or two travelers.

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• During World War II, more migration West occurred thanks to war-related industries in California.

• Route 66—already popular—and fully paved, became a main route for the movement of military equipment.

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• Route 66 ends up being decommissioned yet no single road was designated to replace it. Although it was no longer possible to drive Route 66 uninterrupted all the way from Chicago to Los Angeles, more than 80% of the original road and alternate alignments are still drivable with careful planning.

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• U.S. 66 was decommissioned officially on 6/27/85 when the Route was replaced by the IHS.

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• Preservation groups

• Revival groups in all the states through which Route 66 once passed have seen an incredible revival of the road and its history.

• Many of these groups have tried to landmark the old motels and neon signs along the road.

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Route 66- A ProjectRoute 66- A Project

• As the popularity and mythical stature of Route 66 has continued to grow, demands have begun to mount to improve signage, return Route 66 to road atlases and revive its status as a continuous routing.

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Rout 66-A ProjectRout 66-A Project

• Popular Culture:– !946: jazz composer and pianist Bobby

Troupe wrote his best known song: “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”

– The highway also gave its name to a popular TV show: Route 66.

– The U2 song “Heartland” from their album Rattle and Hum, references Route 66 with the lines: “66 a highway speaks, of deserts dry….

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Route 66: A ProjectRoute 66: A Project

• …of cool, green valleys, gold and silver veins, all the shining cities.”

• The 2006 mini-series, The Lost Room, the event takes place on Route 66.

• The King of Route 66 is a video game that allows players to travel the Route.

• CARS—the Pixar movie takes place on Route 66.

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