Route 66 Trip
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Joe & Kevin Summer 2006 = city in “Route 66” song
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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
