Andie Smith and Holly McCaig are two young women who will embark on a Route 66 trip from St. Louis to Santa Monica, beginning Tuesday. They have a nice eye for photography, and they plan to post photographs and video during their trip on the Mother Road on their F2 Chicks blog. The blog hasn't … Continue reading An addition to the blogroll
Category: People
Star jockey named grand marshal of Duarte parade
Garrett Gomez, horse-racing's top-earning jockey for the past two years, was selected as grand marshal for the annual Salute to Route 66 Parade at 9 a.m. Saturday in Duarte, Calif., reported the Foothill Weeklies. The parade will step off at 9 a.m. at the northeast corner of Huntington Dr. and Cotter St. and proceed east … Continue reading Star jockey named grand marshal of Duarte parade
Hikin’ west
The Journal-News of Hillsboro, Ill., has the story of Cherylynn Delfina, 28, of Parlin, N.J., who is walking and/or hitchhiking west on Route 66 to Los Angeles. The reporter caught up with her in the Route 66 town of Litchfield, Ill. When I met Cherylynn, she had just had a refreshing shower and was feeling … Continue reading Hikin’ west
Memories for sale
Here's an article from the Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress that lays out a man's story: Stuart E. Bruce stood on the shoulder of Route 66, and read the legendary highway like a sentence until it ran out of words against the far horizon. There, somewhere along the 432 miles of crumbling blacktop that cuts through … Continue reading Memories for sale
More on Obama’s stop on Route 66
Claire Messud of Newsweek spent a week with Barack Obama's presidential campaign a few weeks ago. Here's her take of when Obama made an unscheduled stop at Bell's Restaurant on Route 66 in Lebanon, Mo.: When Obama makes a truly unannounced stop at the Bell Restaurant in Lebanon, Mo., a small town in the Ozarks, … Continue reading More on Obama’s stop on Route 66
Jerry Reed, R.I.P.
Jerry Reed, the so-called "Alabama Wild Man" who found success as a recording artist, session guitarist and actor, died of emphysema on Sunday night, reports The Tennesseean in Nashville. He's best-known for "Amos Moses" and "When You're Hot, You're Hot," both of which were in the early 1970s and went to the Top 10 of … Continue reading Jerry Reed, R.I.P.
Notes from the road
Ultramarathoner Phil Rosenstein is running the entire length of Route 66 -- and beyond -- for charity. He started a little more than two weeks ago in Santa Monica, Calif., and has already made it near the Arizona-New Mexico border. After completing his Mother Road trek to Chicago, he plans to keep going all the … Continue reading Notes from the road
Old license plates turned into art
While surfing the Net for Mother Road-related stuff, I stumbled upon this Talk Market video of California artist Aaron Foster hawking a Route 66 shield made of old license plates. It turns out that Foster doesn't make just road shields. He's made peace signs, maps of the continental U.S. and states, and even portraits of … Continue reading Old license plates turned into art
Still roping ’em in
Bushyhead is not much more than a wide spot on Route 66 in Oklahoma, but one weekend every year its population swells because of its Bushyhead Labor Day Pasture Roping and Barrel Race. Bushyhead is hosting the event again this year, but it will be bittersweet. Its founder, Clem McSpadden, died at age 82 earlier … Continue reading Still roping ’em in
John Wayne memorabilia displayed at Williams museum
"Chili" Bill Brooks was John Wayne's pilot for about 10 years, when he flew the actor down to his two ranches in Arizona. Brooks befriended Wayne, famed for his roles in "True Grit," "The Searchers" and hundreds of other Westerns, until his death in 1979. The Wayne memorabilia that Brooks collected over the years now … Continue reading John Wayne memorabilia displayed at Williams museum