It's unusual enough for a foreign television crew to show up at the Rock Cafe. However, it's especially unusual for two foreign television crews to appear at the historic Route 66 landmark in Stroud, Okla. And it happened on Tuesday evening. One crew was from the Seoul Broadcasting System in South Korea. They'd been on … Continue reading TV crews from Britain, Korea visit Rock Cafe
Category: Television
A tour of the original McDonald’s
Here's another recent episode of "Inland Empire Explorer," where the host gets a tour of the original McDonald's restaurant, now a McDonald's memorabilia museum on Route 66 in San Bernardino, Calif. https://youtu.be/QuvbLM1t130 The owner, Albert Okura, also owns the Juan Pollo restaurant chain and the entire Route 66 town of Amboy, Calif., where he is … Continue reading A tour of the original McDonald’s
Five guys and a goat walking Route 66 to end Cubs Curse
Five three fellows from Arizona and a young goat are walking 1,900 miles on Route 66 to Chicago to end the fabled Billy Goat Curse on the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Fox23 in Tulsa caught up with them to file this story: The group and the goat aren't doing this just for kicks. The walk … Continue reading Five guys and a goat walking Route 66 to end Cubs Curse
A tour of the Wigwam Motel
A program titled "Inland Empire Explorer" gets a walk-through of the historic Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in Rialto, Calif. It's a good video: https://youtu.be/hgCHrrXUPTo "Inland Empire Explorer" airs on a PBS affiliate, KVCR, and on several cable-access stations in the Los Angeles area.
Memories of a road trip
A fan of Japanese singer and actor Yamashita Tomohisa has posted this slide show of images from his recently completed trip on Route 66. The video is in tribute to Yamashita's 27th birthday, which is today. https://youtu.be/nVDUG-mGnHo Someone on Vimeo was posting the full "Yamashita Tomohisa Route 66" episodes that aired on Japanese television. Alas, … Continue reading Memories of a road trip
Angel runs deep
I confess: I gasped when I saw this ad and who was featured: https://vimeo.com/39909576 In case you're unfamiliar, he's Angel Delgadillo, the "Guardian Angel of Route 66" in Seligman, Ariz. The ad was shot by Proving Ground Productions of Mesa, Ariz., over a two-day period in November as a part of the Route 66 video … Continue reading Angel runs deep
No, he’s not that Dick Dale
Here's a performance of Bobby Troup's "Route 66" by Dick Dale with Kenny Trimble and Charlie Perlato, along with Bobby Burgess, Arthur Duncan, and Jack Imel in their tap shoes in a 1973 episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show." https://youtu.be/rCrX_DwwbcM It's so square it's almost cool. Almost. I admit to being disappointed the performance didn't feature the … Continue reading No, he’s not that Dick Dale
On the Mother Road with Charles Kuralt
In the quarter-century that Charles Kuralt produced his "On the Road" series for CBS News, I figured that he and Route 66 crossed paths eventually. Sure enough, here's one I found about Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas: https://youtu.be/VuvO4StUUbo The clip is notable in that it apparently was shot shortly after Cadillac Ranch was installed by … Continue reading On the Mother Road with Charles Kuralt
Kerouac considered suing “Route 66” TV drama
Today, on the 90th anniversary of "On the Road" author Jack Kerouac's birth, the New Times of Broward-Palm Beach in Florida contained this fascinating tidbit about his declining health until his death in 1969: A legal squabble over the television show Route 66, which seemed to be modeled on the On the Road story line, drained him even … Continue reading Kerouac considered suing “Route 66” TV drama
“Yamashita Tomohisa Route 66,” Episode 9
Here’s the ninth episode of Japanese television’s “Yamashita Tomohisa Route 66,” which documents the singer and actor’s trip down the Mother Road last fall. This one goes from his Monument Valley side trip to Williams, Ariz. https://vimeo.com/38299907 The 10th episode coming up looks promising -- he's going to meet the Guardian Angel of Route 66.