What are some stops on Route 66?

Answer 1

One of the Great American Highways and also a roadway that remains ill-defined in most people's memory. People will still swear that they drove across the US from coast to coast in the good old days. In truth, it never went East of Chicago, and its Western terminus was in downtown Los Angeles. Today you can find street markers bearing the title Historic Route 66 in the strangest locations, like on streets in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico that appear to be so narrow, that they can hardly be termed alleys by modern standards. It has gone by many titles: The Will Rogers Highway, the Mother Road, the Okie Expressway, Bloody 66, Main Street America and the Great Diagonal. By any name, it was the primary route across Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and California covering a distance of 2448 with its longest stretch of 487 miles across New Mexico's Land of Enchantment. It was dotted with diners, motels and small gasoline and grocery store combinations, road-side vendors, souvenier shops and Burma Shave Signs. Hand painted signs regularly warned that three or five miles ahead was the last gas for 50 or 100 miles. They also advertised live rattlesnakes, Petrified Wood, Dinosaur Bones and free ice water. Were there places to stop, hundreds, a few that were even noteworthy and remain in existence today. Most were only trying to eek out a few pennies of profit from everyone that stopped by, but their were a few unsavory characters, in keeping with the Wild West that were in the business of taking the tourist for anything they could. Route 66 was never an Autobahn in the German model, and compared to the modern Interstate Highway, it was a genuine slaughterhouse. It adapted over its 60 year life span and is now a part of the lore of US motoring.