>Route 66 Meets People
The good efforts of David Knudson at the National Route 66 Federation contributed to People magazine doing a nice spread on Route 66. ('King of the Roads' - pages 53-57, People magazine, July 19, 1999) I'll be writing for permission to reproduce the spread, but I usually don't get a response to such requests, or can't afford their asking price, so, check it out at your nearest public library.
Real Route 66 Monuments
Jim Ross of Ghost Town Press was kind
enough to share with me the pictures of the
markers on old Route
66 near his home.
You have to know
exactly where to look
for these as they
were only erected
along the old road.
As new alignments
were created they
were often discarded
or buried along with
the old road bed.
The other problem is
that they are often
weed covered because they live on
segments of the old
road that have pretty
well dropped out of
the highway department's maintenance
program and have
become lightly traveled country lanes.
This segment was
built in 1928 and the
mileage of the paving
was also memorialized.
The Georgians
John and Evelyn Barrett rode in from
Dawsonville, GA with Edsel Boyd to start
the 5th Annual Mother Road Ride/Rally® in
Chicago. None of us were too pleased with
the light rain that greeted us on Saturday
morning, but, happily, it cleared out to just
high clouds by the time we left the headquarters hotel to head for California.
We worried a lot about rain as we ran south in Illinois because dark clouds remained on the southwest horizon. The heavy rain moved up the Mississippi River valley to the northeast . . . we only experienced some light sprinkles as we crossed over on the I-270 bridge north of St. Louis. The heavy rain held off till we got to Oklahoma and even then half the group had gotten checked into their motel when it hit.
Mystery Cafe on Route 66
If you hunt up
that People
magazine article on Route
66 you'll notice a big picture of the La
Cita restaurant
in the
magazine table of contents. People
didn't identify
the distinctive
building, but it
caught my eye
too when I saw
it. It is located in Tucumcari, NM. Westbound on Business I-40 look to your left at
each stop light and you can't miss it.