I would love to hear your Route 66 stories!

America really needs to make route 66 popular again. I think there are more people interested in it than the government may realize.

I'm from India and I've always wondered about Route 66 coz it's been mentioned in many American shows and movies. Thank you so much for the short and great explanation and a brief history about route 66.

In 1959 my family traveled from Chicago to see our family in LA. It was the only way to go! I remember the Burma Shave signs too. Now it's on my bucket list to re ride Route 66! Thanks for the history!

I learned from cars

I just drove the entire route from Chicago to Santa Monica. I may be back in NYC, but the Route is still with me.

There is also a chunk section in Barstow off the 15n freeway. All of main street is route 66. I've only followed it from barstow to victorville just to get away from all the traffic. Really amazing highway to drive on.

when I was 5 we left KS. and drove to CA. on RT. 66. My parents never told me' You are on the Famous Mother Road" it was just a road then. we drove it all at once, my dad only stopping for naps. It was a long drive and I remember all the roadside attractions and billboards and seeing Indian children and teepees being depicted on everyone. I am so glad for that road trip and I have always had the travel bug, in June I visited my 50th state!

Just finished my Route 66 road trip today. Love it! Great video!

Wonderful overview! Truly a great piece of Americana! Many things truly get lost in the rush of things.

I love this so much! Thank you for teaching me and future generations about Route 66!

For those who don’t know, it was John Steinbeck’s 1940 book The Grapes of Wrath that coined the term “The Mother Road” “66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all of these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.”

I just moved to Oklahoma City and love living so close to Route 66 and all it’s roadside attractions.

For 22 years I had a vacation home about 20 minutes from Oatman, Az. I used to drive that section of 66 over Sitgreaves Pass a lot since it was probably the most beautiful stretch of Route 66 and made for a nice afternoon drive.

My father Bill Swan made a lot of iconic fiberglass statues which are placed along Route 66 some of which are in new short Amazon book for only 14.99 called "The man behind the mufflerman ".

I just got back from a trip to California and the Grand Canyon, the second time in my life I've made such a trip, and it was only late into the trip that I realized we were basically more or less following route 66. I live in central Illinois near I 55, and my mom played the song Route 66 a lot, so I already knew a bit about Route 66 but it was one of the unexpected cool things about this trip that I ended up running smack into the history of Route 66.

Wow! This is a great video. Thank you! I drove over the road for a few years, and have been on these highways many times - I was always curious about Route 66. I've been on parts of the old highway and wondered about the Glory Days of it. I think I'm going to have to do a road trip in my car and take it from start to finish.

Just drive from Tulsa through OKC on I-40. Ran parallel Route 66. Pulled off once or twice just so I could say I was on Route 66. Drive all the way to the Big Texan in Amarlllo to have a small steak dinner just to say I've been there. Drove through New Mexico and looped north to Santa Fe. I've driven from Santa Monica eastward through Barstow to Oatman and Arizona. Wonderful road to match with the history.

Living in Tulsa, I've heard about the route all my life. Been up both ends of 44 between St Louis and OKC hundreds of times but only last year, had I ventured west on 40 beyond OKC. That trip we went to Phoenix and saw a side of this beautiful country id never seen before! Absolutely amazing... And also, can't leave my comment without mentioning some of our favorite stops on the route: Redmon's candy factory, and one of my personal favorites, Cline's Corner!

Thanks for mentioning Oatman Arizona, that stretch is our absolute favorite!

Younger drivers say that driving on Route 66 is cheesy and a boomer thing. But man, i would gladly drive that entire road if i could

I loved growing up in St Louis we had a huge piece of Route 66 which still exist today

The "Route 66" TV show does still have a lot of influence on the highway's popularity. Plus, there's a lot of history, as you outline. I live in Albuquerque. Central Av. is the main route through the city, and it is also Route 66. It's a big deal here.

Just did the section from Needles to Barstow, parallel to Interstate 40, coming back home from Arizona. Nothing like open road single lane American blacktop.

I live on Route 66! It's a beautiful ride on the Harley!!!

The official end of Route 66 is a restaurant called Mel’s Drive-in which can be found at 1670 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

I always wondered why this road was so famous, like apearing in video games and tv shows, cartoons, animes, everywhere. Now i finally know, ty

Extremely interesting video, well done👍 I drove parts of it a couple years ago, a very enjoyable experience.

Awesome History 👍 Great Route 66 will try to Drive through it someday 👌

I just watched this video and I actually started to get a little bit emotional. I remember seeing the first Cars movie when it came out and had the privilege of getting it on DVD. For many years as a kid, I could not watch the flashback montage of Radiator Springs without shedding a tear or two, and I have Our Town by James Taylor to thank for that; I think I even have a vague memory of bursting into ugly tears in the cinema due to how nostalgic the song is. The song's nostalgically wistful atmosphere was about this very thing: Highway 66 being replaced by the interstate highway system and the freeway corridors of I-55, I-44, I-40, I-15, and I-10 completely bypassing the multitudes of small towns and suburbs of larger cities that sprung up along the routing by as much as several dozen miles. On top of this, it reflects on the paradigm shift in the lifestyles of the residents of these towns for the worse due to the economic annihilation the freeway system wrought upon these areas since the clientele their businesses relied on to stay in the black was diverted away.

Thanks for the research links!

thank you Pixar Cars for shedding some light on this high way

Yes, the coming of freeways was bitter sweet. Now many of the stops are boring with the same chain gas stations and businesses. Some places are actually trying to change that now though.

Great video. And 66 runs right through my town. I live just a mile south or it. Awesome 👏

Thanks for the video I was always wondering why it was so popular you just earned a sub

TOTALLY AWESOME EDUCATION!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!! I LEARNED SO MUCH!!!

I like me so much this video.very good

Great video. Great editing. Great job. Keep it up.

The Grapes of Wrath brought me here. I'm a quarter of the way into the novel.

For me, it's famous. For me, I think it's famous for fast food restaurant and Disney film cars. I would like to take a journey there too.

I have driven Route 66, from Bloomington, IL to Williams, AZ - though not consecutively.

Thank you for this. It's so neat!👍👍👍

I'm probably been on parts of it but never realized it but I still would love to do a whole Road Trip of Route 66 it would be interesting

My great grandfather 1868-1967…Richard Baker…pioneered the area east of the current Big Tex near Amarillo and lived til he died on the side of Route 66. My cuz also a Richard Baker..has a peace…tribute piece off to the north on the land he still owns there. Our aunt had a diner in east Amarillo also on Route 66 in the 1950s. It truly was and should be…a scenic ride….✌🏼

2022 here and my car did the whole thing for me!

I hope businesses are gearing up for 2026 100 years anniversary, that would be cool to travel then.

I was on 66 in 1956 and 59 going to Santa Ana California my dad did construction at Disneyland

The new Google video is a kick in the pants and brings back many fun memories...thanks Google

Informative great video 👍

Nice video -but Route 66 heads west on Adams Street in Chicago, not Jackson. Jackson Blvd., a block south and parallel to Adams, is the final stretch eastbound. And one can still travel former Route 66 alignments without interruption except for a brief stretch in the southwest suburbs of Chicago where I-55 was built over the old roadway.

Not knowing that LA is Louisiana and L.A. but giving us a history lesson. 😒

Ricardos and Mertzes drove Rte 66 on their way to California. Went through Ethel’s home town of AlbuhKoiKee. I wonder if they took that famous left TOIN. (IYKYK)

Nicely done!!

Do you have a video of how anybody could make those travel trails ? Seemed interesting

Some day, I would love to drive Rte 66. American history.

Grew up with and on Route 66 in Missouri..... 2021

K this is added to the road trip bucket list

Great video Brad

Excellent

Excellent production! You really stepped up your graphics and imaging. Can I ask what video editor you use?

Rte 66 was the route the Ricardos and Mertzes took to California. I Love Lucy.

A celebration of the 95th Anniversary of the "Mother Road", Route 66. 🛣️

Thank you.

The United States Numbered Highway system was established in 1926.

Awesome! I loved this!

Really enjoyed your video! Just subscribed to your channel. Wish I could see some of Route 66 but, not able to because, I'm handicap and have nobody to take me.

Hmm now where have I heard about this road before?? *Thinks of the cars movies*

Fortunately thanks to us locals, Ted Drewes isn't going anywhere anytime soon and it's still a big tourist draw.

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I am a kid who is eager to drive on here.

Well done. Cheers. Thadi di mak... Choke dee.

Here for school:/

1:31 Springfield whaaa

6:45, Same reason is also mentioned in Cars movie from Disney. damn that was real incidence.

some curvey over bridge highway type shit and there was a open land there once

Whats the name of the song that starts at 0:58?

So that's why cars was inspired by root 66

Stay off the I-55/44/40/15/10 interstates. Doing the interstate is not doing Rt66

i like it too bad it was replaced by I-55,I-44,I-40,I-15,Arroyo Seco Parkway,and I-10

Rebuild route 66

Who finally won the foot race?

Kachow.

Why is it called "Route 66" ? Are there French connection with this road ?

Route 66 is haunted now right

Honestly i never hear anything abt 66

Lol. Rt.66. Ain't no different than any other highway. Take Rt. 219 coming out of Buffalo, NY and used to run all the way to Florida. There's more important routes in this country than rt. 66