New T-shirt features Whoopee Coaster

Tourist Trap Tees, based in Oklahoma, is releasing a new T-shirt featuring a Mother Road legend from Illinois. This one is the Whoopee Coaster of Lyons (also known as the Whoopie Coaster) -- a long wooden structure basically designed as a roller coaster for cars. Living History of Illinois has a nice summary of this short-lived … Continue reading New T-shirt features Whoopee Coaster

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Ann Brimacombe, an art director based in Minneapolis, posted some of the television ads she worked on for Kmart and its Route 66 fashion line. As you can see, these whimsical ads take on a road-trip theme -- including one spot near Route 66 in Meteor Crater in Arizona. Kmart/Route 66 "Ghost Girl" :60 from … Continue reading A word from our sponsor …

New T-shirts pay tribute to Route 66 legends

A graphic designer in Oklahoma has collaborated with two well-known Route 66 enthusiasts to create his Tourist Trap Tees line, which pays tribute to legends of the Mother Road. Tourist Trap Tees has shirts inspired by Rimmy Jim's Trading Post in Arizona, the Tri-State Spooklight in Oklahoma, the Red Ghost of Arizona, and the Regal … Continue reading New T-shirts pay tribute to Route 66 legends

A listing of Route 66 sites used in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue -- which includes a prominent section about Route 66 -- hit the magazine's website Monday and was scheduled to be on newsstands this week. Here's a behind-the-scenes video from the magazine's Route 66 photo shoot: So far I've seen these landmarks in the shoot and other photos Sports Illustrated posted … Continue reading A listing of Route 66 sites used in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue includes a Route 66 section

Sports Illustrated's much-ballyhooed swimsuit edition this year includes a section that was shot on Route 66. That was confirmed by taking a gander at the magazine's cover that was revealed this week: If you can't see it, here's the relevant excerpt: The Route 66 section claims to cover seven of the Mother Road's eight states … Continue reading Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue includes a Route 66 section

Fashion amid the ruins

Photographer Joanna Delys and a crew of assistants did a photo shoot of Route 66 clothing (a European fashion line, I believe) with French model Gaëlle Fromaigeat at the ruins of a gas station. https://youtu.be/-nHeOoYhPAg I think this is along Route 66 at a long-abandoned station in Lela, Texas. Anyone else more sure where it … Continue reading Fashion amid the ruins

Limited-edition T-shirts raises money for Whiting Bros. sign restoration

Retro -- Relive the Route, a group that aims to improve historic preservation and tourism in the Edgewood and Moriarty area of New Mexico, is selling a limited-edition T-shirt that will help raise the funds to restore the signs at the only surviving gas station of the Whiting Bros. chain. The group received a $3,700 … Continue reading Limited-edition T-shirts raises money for Whiting Bros. sign restoration

Vintage fashion shopping in Amarillo

Andrew Evans of National Geographic's Digital Nomad site is spending the next month or so traveling in the state of his birth, Texas. One of his first dispatches comes from Rag and Bone Antiques, along the Sixth Street (aka Route 66) corridor of Amarillo, where Keitha Jones and Ash Marie show him vintage clothing. It's … Continue reading Vintage fashion shopping in Amarillo

Tucumcari used for fashion photo spread by Marie Claire magazine

In December, French fashion photographer Thierry Le Goues, model Katelyn Pascavis, and a large crew from Dodge Burn Foto descended on the Route 66 town of Tucumcari, N.M., and its landmark Blue Swallow Motel for several days for a photo shoot for Marie Claire magazine. Le Goues and his crew shot all over Route 66 in … Continue reading Tucumcari used for fashion photo spread by Marie Claire magazine

John Lasseter’s Hawaiian shirts

John Lasseter, director of the 2006 Disney-Pixar animated film "Cars" and the upcoming "Cars 2," showed a reporter his collection of more than 300 Hawaiian shirts. And, yes, he wears them. You'll see the Route 66 shield several times on his apparel. https://youtu.be/PmrJFxxeDZw I once asked a Pixar publicist about buying some of the Route … Continue reading John Lasseter’s Hawaiian shirts