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The Texas Route 66 Festival capped off 10 days of activities and events on Saturday with a day of pageantry, shopping, live music, and classic cars at the finale celebration presented by Amarillo ...
Here's the full Texas Route 66 Festival schedule Thursday, June 6. Coors Cowboy Club Ranch Rodeo Kick-Off: 6-10 p.m., Amarillo Tri-State Fairgrounds. First Thursday Art Walk: 4-7 p.m., Amarillo ...
The US Route 66-Sixth Street Historic District is a historic district in Amarillo, Texas. [2] The district is centered around the main section of the historic Route 66 in the San Jacinto Heights district of the city, which includes the Amarillo Natatorium. [3] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 23, 1994 ...
Before the U.S. Route system, this route was a system of interconnected highways from New Mexico to Oklahoma, considered a part of the Texas highway system from New Mexico to Amarillo and a portion of the Ozark Trails. In Amarillo, the Ozark route split off to a more southerly route, while general low-grade roads continued east.
Various US 66 markers posted outside the Midpoint Café. The café, built in 1928 [4] and expanded in 1947, [5] operated 24 hours a day during Route 66's heyday [6] and is the oldest continuously operating Route 66 café between Amarillo, Texas and Tucumcari, New Mexico.
US 287 – Amarillo, Clarendon: Carson FM 2161 west – Amarillo: Former Route 66 I-40 – Amarillo, Shamrock: I-40 exit 96: Panhandle: US 60 – Amarillo, White Deer: FM 293 west FM 2385 east: Hutchinson: Borger: Spur 246 north / FM 1551 west: SH 136 south – Amarillo: Interchange; south end of SH 136 overlap: SH 152 east (West 3rd Street ...
U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) is one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. [ 3 ]
The Big Texan Steak Ranch is a steakhouse restaurant and motel located in Amarillo, Texas, which opened on the previous U.S. Route 66 in 1960. It relocated to its present location on Interstate 40 in 1970. Fire gutted the west wing of the restaurant in 1976 and destroyed $100,000 in antiques. The restaurant reopened as a larger facility in 1977.