Among them: the oldest-known Route 66 map, Dorothea Lange’s Depression-era photo “Migrant Mother,” a cream-colored 1960s Chevrolet Corvette and Jack Kerouac’s 120-foot “On the Road ...

The Route History Museum in Springfield, which documents the Black experience on Route 66, housed in a former Texaco gas station from 1946, June 20, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) ...

Pop culture mythologized it: Bobby Troup's 1946 song, popularized by Nat King Cole, (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66; and the 1960s TV show Route 66, featuring a pair of adventure-mad bachelors in a ...

Of the 116 episodes in the 1960-1964 TV show “route 66” (yes, always spelled with a lower-case “r”) only two episodes were actually filmed on Route 66. The cast and crew moved on location ...

Now I can take off my hat and read the map on the side! The TV show The romance of Route 66 was magnified in 1960 by a television series, “Route 66,” that ran over four years with 114 episodes.

After going through Afton in northeast Oklahoma, Route 66 heads straight across the state line to Neosho, Mo., where it turns north toward Joplin without going through Kansas at all.

Jim Ross and Shellee Graham are responsible for “Route 66: The First 100 Years,” a new book that takes readers on a journey through the historic highway's life, demise and renaissance.

They organized a memorable three-day event called the Historic Route 66 Fun Run Car Rally and Show that took place April 22-24, 1988. The dedication event attracted 152 entrants. Gov.

Of the 116 episodes in the 1960-1964 TV show “route 66” (yes, always spelled with a lower-case “r”) only two episodes were actually filmed on Route 66. The cast and crew moved on location ...

Of the 116 episodes in the 1960-1964 TV show “route 66” (yes, always spelled with a lower-case “r”) only two episodes were actually filmed on Route 66. The cast and crew moved on location ...