"Rawhide," the TV western that helped launch the long career of Clint Eastwood, used the Route 66 town of Tucumcari, N.M., as a base to film five episodes in 1959, according to a story in the Quay County Sun. If you have fuzzy memories of "Rawhide," this might jolt your brain: The Sun reports: Actors … Continue reading “Rawhide” was once filmed in Tucumcari area
Category: Television
Notes from the road
Kim Benoit of Montreal has created a miniature version of the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs, seen in the 2006 Disney/Pixar animated movie "Cars." Here are the photos that Benoit sent: Well done, I'd say. --- The owners of Seaba Station on Route 66 near Warwick, Okla., seek to reopen the historic auto … Continue reading Notes from the road
Next on the Mother Road
Next, a fashion website based in Great Britain, recently had a film shoot on Route 66 in West Hollywood to the Mojave Desert. Here's a behind-the-scenes video: Here's the finished product: Dig the soundtrack by the Dandy Warhols.
Two Guns as a movie location
Billy and Anais Yeager spent some months in the Route 66 ghost town of Two Guns, Ariz., to film footage for their forthcoming independent film, "Jesus of Malibu." Here's an edited section of a report by the Bravo Television about the Yeagers' experience in Two Guns. (Warning: one brief scene near the end of the … Continue reading Two Guns as a movie location
A medley from the King
Here's something I'd never seen before ... Nat King Cole performing a medley of five of his hits, including "Route 66."
A fresh take on the Mother Road
Caroline Vandergriff, a broadcast journalism and political science major at the University of Southern California, posted this video segment about the Mother Road in the Los Angeles area. On her YouTube profile, she says: All of these stories are my own original ideas, reported in the Los Angeles area. I shoot, edit, write, and provide … Continue reading A fresh take on the Mother Road
Commercial break
Looks like the Kit Kat folks ended up on the Mother Road in Arizona:
Footage from the past
A few days ago, the C-SPAN network announced it put all of its video archives online, dating back more than 20 years. The archive, which contains more than 160,000 hours of video, will be a boon for muckrakers. But considering that C-SPAN also gave plenty of air time to historians, I thought maybe some Route … Continue reading Footage from the past
More commercials from “Route 66”
As promised, here are more television commercials from the 1961 season of "Route 66." It's amazing to encounter Chevrolet models of which I was unaware.
Commercials from “Route 66”
Someone has compiled all of the commercials that aired during the 1961 of the original "Route 66" television drama. You'll see ads for Milk of Magnesia, "instant flaking action" Bayer Aspirin, and a whole fleet of Chevys. You'll even see an ad that features Frontier City, which is still off Route 66 north of Oklahoma … Continue reading Commercials from “Route 66”