Posted on 07/05/2020 7:17:10 AM PDT by rktman
Oh, excellent musicians. LOL! A friend and I did a facebook live one hour thing(her facebook since I don’t do FB) yesterday for the 4th. That was fun.
Karim hasn’t been around very much
Tumcamcari New Mexico still celebrates Route 66. There are lons grassy stretches of the road parallel to I 40. Every stop along the way has some Route 66 stuff.
Karim’s ignorance is fake news
I don’t do FB or Tw*tter either.
But, just a few days ago, I defied the MASQUE ORDER and sat down in a music store at the piano and sang “Desperado” at the top of my Classically-Trained Lungs.
The proprietor of the store videoed it and put it on his FB page (I coulda KILLED him...I looked awful, with my grey hair, shopping bag on my arm, and mask under my chin! LOL!)
But people seemed to like it. It’s probably removed now, due to copyright issues.
The route runs (east to west) through Seligman, Peach Springs, Truxton, Valentine, Hackberry, and then into Kingman.
Peach Springs is the Haulapai Indian Reservation town. Pay attention to the speed limit there or you will be paying.
I40 is the AZ hog wrestle.
The longest continuous length of Route 66 is from the Crookton Road to the AZ CA border through Oatman AZ (the portion of the OLD rt 66. If you take the turn off just after the 484 steam engine park in old town Kingman, you look over from the NEW rt 66 and you can see a portion of the OLD rt 66 cross the canyon.
I have been there many times! It never gets old.
***Ever notice Tod and Buz always seemed to be near the ocean? ***
Except when they were at Carlsbad Caverns, quite a way south of RT 66.
I was right there years ago.
Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein’s last words were “I can’t breathe!”
Remember, to the young, there is no perspective and even a single instance is damming!
Thanks for the reminder, Nelson Riddle is/was a genius and this piece is GREAT!
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Bert Kaempfert has some nice instrumentals to fot with that era.
In 1950, my dad and I got into his ‘49 Buick convertible and drove from Long Beach to New Jersey to visit my mom’s aunt and uncle. My mom had caught the measles and so we left without her. She flew to St. Louis where we picked her up. I was going on four at the time, but I still do have little fragments of memories of the trip. I can now imagine what the trip was like for my dad—days on the road with a 4-year old! No car seat or seat belts, yet I survived.
It’s a girl my Lord in a flatbed Ford slowin’ down to take a look at me. I dig it.
Wow, and I thought Philly to St. Louis was a long drive. From St. Louis, I-44 follows the old Route 66 to Oklahoma City, where it intersects with I-40.
Who would've imagined - one of the major east-west roads of the pre-interstate highway era ran through some areas where "segregation was rampant". This article is perfectly suited to a full-color, glossy reprinting in Duh! Magazine.
Racism displayed on Route 66. Wow. Good thing nobody told Chuck Berry.
Know the route well, you can even get glimpses of the original Beale Rd that followed the same route to Fort Beale in Kingman. I have documented and ridden as much of the original Beale Rd as I could down through there on horseback. Beautiful country. :)
“Ever notice Tod and Buz always seemed to be near the ocean?”
Yes there is one episode I remember set in Galveston, Texas, pretty far off Route 66. I remember it because some scenes are set on the old Galveston Pleasure Pier (which has it’s own history) and costarred Anne Helm. She was the leading lady for Elvis Presley in Follow That Dream one of his few really good movies.
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