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One of Route 66's most famous nicknames comes from author John Steinbeck: In his 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath," he dubbed it "the mother road." The book dramatizes the mass migration of poor ...
Michael Wallis (born October 7, 1945) [1] is an American journalist, popular historian, author and speaker. He has written seventeen books, [2] including Route 66: The Mother Road, about the historic highway U.S. Route 66.
The National Historic Route 66 Federation was founded in 1995 for the purpose of saving the businesses, communities and roadbed of U.S. Route 66. The famous road carried travelers across much of the country from the day it was commissioned on November 11, 1926 through June 25, 1985 when it was decommissioned.
Lastly, US 66 was unofficially named "The Will Rogers Highway" by the U.S. Highway 66 Association in 1952, although a sign along the road with that name appeared in the John Ford film, The Grapes of Wrath, which was released in 1940, twelve years before the association gave the road that name.
U.S. Route 84 leads southeast 44 miles (71 km) to Fort Sumner, and U.S. Route 54 leads southwest 40 miles (64 km) to Vaughn. "Route 66" remains the name of the main east–west thoroughfare through the city, referring to former U.S. Route 66, which lost its official designation in 1985. New Mexico State Road 91 runs south to Puerto de Luna.
An abandoned early Route 66 alignment in central Illinois in 2006. U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, the Mother Road or Main Street of America, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California.
All pages with titles containing Route 66; Route 66 Association, one of which exists for each state on historic U.S. Route 66; Route 66 State Park, in Times Beach, Missouri, U.S. U.S. Highway 66 Association (1927–1976) Phillips 66, a gas station chain; Route 66 Raceway, a drag racing strip in Joliet, Illinois, U.S.
North Carolina: The Tar Heel State. North Carolina is known as the "Tar Heel State" because of the state's history is rooted in turpentine, tar, and pitch production from its pine trees, and the ...