Official song....

And I'm staying at an Embassy Suites hotel in Arcadia, CA where there is a Rte. 66 sign on the railway bridge over Huntington Dr. Still not sure what this obsession with Rte. 66 is all about. Yes, it was popularized in the entertainment world, but you would think it had the cultural significance of Moses parting the waters or something from all the fuss some people put up about it. Let it go to the history books, it's done.

Well you have a lot of people that have bought commercial frontage on rt 66, probably on the cheap, if they can muster some sort of support it could enhance the value greatly....but imo the kind of money it would take to actually develop this road into a sort of stretched out Disney World of attractions is never going to happen....It takes more than a giant ball of twine and an indian teepee to get anybody's attention nowadays....The problem is nobody has any reason to go there other than nostalgia, which would be a sad journey for sure to see the state it's in now...Anyone old enough to remember it is too old to want to travel that far...

You obviously have not read ‘Grapes of Wrath’ - Steinbecks' brilliant word pictures have been etched in my mind for 50 years now.

Read it while you are there!

Rather presumptuous of you to accuse me of not reading a classic piece of literature. I did read 'Grapes of Wrath' in high school. That was a few years back.

However, just because this road was popularized in the entertainment industry (literature, music, Hollyweird, etc.) doesn't make it a worthwhile endeavor to attempt to resurrect the road or turn it into some historical monument..

My main gripe about the whole thing is that people want Uncle Sugar to pay for it, so some can profit from the endeavor. If the individual states wish to use THEIR money to do whatever with Rte. 66, more power to them.

Better watch out for the route 66 mafia with talk like that.

...Maybe if they lost the speed limit more (insane) people might get behind the idea.

Route 66 has national, and international, significance that you apparently don't appreciate.

It also has personal significance to me, but I don't have a desire to relive the times I was on it necessarily, nor drive it again. It replaced dirt roads that were muddy when it rained and rutted after that.

I can relate to the Joads and their vehicle as my family traveled there in the summers from Arkansas to California three times in a 1950 GMC pickup, with mattress in the bed and wooden frame with a canvas tarp over the top.

I'm not aware that "Uncle Sugar" is footing the bill for the entrepreneurs who are moving there to rekindle the spirit of the road.

I for one, hope that the route comes alive again as I own property in Kingman, AZ just off the old highway.

Uncle Sugar: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/66/text?r=172

OK?

NO!

This is a commission established to "study and recommend to Congress activities that are fitting and proper to celebrate that anniversary in a manner that appropriately honors America’s Mother Road."

By 2026, the centennial anniversary of Rte 66, the country may very well be bankrupted by the tax giveaways and financial deregulation currently in progress!

I see no indication that federal money will be used to enrich those small businessmen/women willing to gamble and invest in the future.

haha....

In the mid 90's I drove my new and soon to be POS Saturn SL2 to visit relatives living in Tulsa Oklahoma. The road of choice for me was whatever parts of the the old route 66 that existed at the time.

I have no love for the old road. It's nice, but there are better.. It's neat for the fact that nostalgic shops have not taken over.

Who can't enjoy the road less traveled and finding out what is around the next bend?

My relatives were not in love with route 66 and have since moved to Colorado. .. Loveland of course.