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Test flight with Luigi’s Flying Tires
Testing continues on the rides that will be offered at Cars Land of Disney California Adventure. A few days ago, the latest test was on the Luigi’s Flying Tires. According to the Disney Parks Blog: The...
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Clinton Route 66 museum will close for renovations
The Oklahoma Route 66 Museum in Clinton is set to close from January to at least mid-April for renovations, according to the museum’s website. Pat Smith, the museum’s director, said in a message on the...
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Woody Guthrie Archives will move to Tulsa
The Woody Guthrie Archives, based in New York, will move to his home state of Oklahoma and the Route 66 city of Tulsa by 2013, according a story late Tuesday by the New York Times. The Tulsa-based...
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Cookin’ from Scratch will appear on Travel Channel show
The Cookin’ from Scratch restaurant off Route 66 in Doolittle, Mo., will be featured in an episode of the Travel Channel’s “Truck Stop Missouri,” according to The Rolla Daily News. According to the...
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A drive over the Lake Overholser Bridge
This YouTube poster drove his old Mustang over the recently restored Lake Overholser Bridge, which carries old Route 66 in Oklahoma City: The 1924 bridge was reopened to traffic in October after a $4...
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Manning’s Coffee sign being restored
The historic Manning’s Coffee Store rooftop sign in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles is being restored, reported the Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch. Manning’s Coffee went out of...
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A tour of John’s Modern Cabins
This well-produced video gives you a tour and a history of the abandoned and fast-decaying John’s Modern Cabins, located near Arlington, Mo., off old Route 66. The video was produced by Texas-based...
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The end and the beginning
As the final hours of 2011 wind down, let’s take a look at the two symbolic end points of Route 66. The first is Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park in Chicago: The second is the Santa Monica Pier in...
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Historic Joplin pawnshop closes
A pawn shop in Joplin, Mo., closed for good. But it wasn’t just any pawn shop. It was the Ben Milgrim Pawnshop, which had operated near the Mother Road for 78 years, acording to the Joplin Globe. The...
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Sad end to The Java Stop
One of the eye-catching businesses along Route 66 in Dwight, Ill., in recent years was The Java Stop coffee stand, which used two rail containers stacked on top of each other and a fancy paint job. The...
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Programming note
If you see a few funky things on Route 66 News in the coming days, there’s probably good reason for it. Route 66 News is moving from WordPress.com to a hosted site using the WordPress.org platform. It...
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Shimmering in the night
Here’s a short-but-sweet new video of the great neon sign at the Supai Motel, along Route 66 in Seligman, Ariz. The video was created by Andrew Wood, a professor at San Jose State University and a...
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“My father taught me how to drive and dream”
This 13-minute film by Karla Berry from 2004 is well worth watching all the way through. But in particular it contains footage of the Coral Court Motel in St. Louis shortly before the bulldozers came....
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A high-speed trip on Oatman Road
No, the driver wasn’t doing anything dangerous. He mounted a video camera on the side of his vehicle, drove that winding stretch of Route 66 from Oatman, Ariz., to the Cool Springs Camp at normal...
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Asleep At the Wheel time machine
Here’s a clip of western-swing band Asleep At the Wheel performing “Route 66″ and a few other songs at Farm Aid in 1993. This is one of the classic incarnations of the band, with Cindy Cashdollar on...
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Pontiac tourism rises 40 percent in 2011
A few months ago, Pontiac Tourism director Ellie Alexander reported that tourism in Pontiac, Ill., was trending at a 30 percent higher level than in 2010. Note I said “trending.” I was skeptical the...
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“Don’t Let It Break Your Heart”
Here’s an unofficial but well-shot video for Coldplay‘s new song, “Don’t Let It Break Your Heart.” You’ll find a lot of Route 66 images from the desert Southwest. The video was made by the...
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Needles developing a tour for its murals
The Route 66 town of Needles, Calif., is developing a tour of new murals that have been painted on buildings, reported the Needles Desert Star. The Needles Economic Development Corporation is...
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Drink and ink
A couple of fellows who walk into the Iron Hog Restaurant and Saloon in Oro Grande, Calif., during a Route 66 trip bump into one of the tattoo artists of the stars: I’ve had enough of these incongruous...
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Big move is imminent
I’ve been informed by the good folks at WordPress.com that Route 66 News will be migrated to a self-hosted site starting at 5 a.m. Central on Thursday. WordPress advised me not to count on posting...
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