"Celebrate the Ozarks: Route 66," a one-hour special about Missouri's Route 66, will air at 7 p.m. CDT Friday, April 29, on KYTV (KY3) in Springfield, Mo. Tim Leimkuhler, a news photographer at KY3 and producer of the program, says it deals with the Mother Road from Rolla, Mo., to just across the border in … Continue reading TV station will air special program about Missouri Route 66
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A tour in the Mother Road’s midsection
This episode from Greene HD Productions is from the "Route 66: The Marathon Tour" DVD box set. The segment goes from Erick, Okla., to Adrian, Texas, with small snippets of other sights on Route 66 in the beginning. https://vimeo.com/22500537
East Hollywood wants Route 66 improvements
The East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles is applying for city grants to help dress up a 22-block stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard (aka Route 66), according to Curbed Los Angeles. Armen Makasjian of the Santa Monica Boulevard/Route 66 Task Force says his group hopes to capitalize on Route 66's reputation as one of the … Continue reading East Hollywood wants Route 66 improvements
Geocache goof continues to reverberate
You may remember a few weeks ago the story about how the Nevada Department of Transportation, citing dubious safety reasons, abruptly removed hundreds of geocaches along the Extraterrestrial Highway. Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Adrienne Packer today posted a follow-up on that story. In short, she found no shortage of geocache fans who proclaimed they would … Continue reading Geocache goof continues to reverberate
Short film about Blue Whale will premiere in June
Filmmaker Alexander Knight of Oklahoma City has made a 13-minute documentary about the Blue Whale of Catoosa, Okla. The film will premiere during the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City on June 8-12. Here's the trailer. Unlike a lot of trailers, this one doesn't give a lot away: https://youtu.be/azwgJ1ip3b0 However, the credits do show that … Continue reading Short film about Blue Whale will premiere in June
More details released about Cars Land
Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., took about 400 guests through the construction area of a $1 billion makeover at its Disney California Adventure, including the Orange County Register. One of the new additions is Cars Land, which is inspired by the 2006 Disney-Pixar movie, "Cars," about the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. Here … Continue reading More details released about Cars Land
Admiral flea markets
Here's a video I made a while back for another non-Route 66 News project that didn't materialize. It's about the flea markets along Admiral Place (aka Route 66) in Tulsa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjgJgKNcAY This area is essentially two flea markets in the same area -- the Great American Flea Market and the older Admiral Flea Market. If … Continue reading Admiral flea markets
Pixar returns to the Mother Road
A film crew from Pixar Animation Studios spent time on Route 66 in Kansas and Oklahoma this weekend to shoot a documentary as a special feature for the eventual "Cars 2" DVD and Blu-Ray disc. The purpose of the short film is to explain the impact the original "Cars" film made on businesses along the … Continue reading Pixar returns to the Mother Road
Scenes from the carnival
Crystal City Shopping Center, which sits just off Route 66 in southwest Tulsa, is hosting its first carnival in decades. Here are scenes I shot tonight at the Route 66 Carnival. It continues through Sunday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJMgwwKtW8 The Crystal City Shopping Center was built in 1958, but an amusement park in that spot dates to the … Continue reading Scenes from the carnival
Tucumcari Tonite
A slide show of the Route 66 town in eastern New Mexico.