The Duke City Fix, an collective blog about all things about Albuquerque, has some interesting tidbits today from contributor Johnny Mango: Details about the street designs for when streetcars are installed along Central Avenue, aka Route 66. New crosswalks on Central. A grant has been awarded to restore the historic murals at the De Anza … Continue reading News items from Albuquerque
Category: Towns
A way to find information about Route 66 towns
Steered by an article by the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle, I've found a decent way to search for information about towns on Route 66 -- or just about any town in the United States, for that matter. It's called ePodunk.com. It does a fairly good job consolidating search-engine data about a town into one … Continue reading A way to find information about Route 66 towns
Route 66 vendors take note
The Route 66 Days festival in Strafford, Mo., is seeking arts-and-crafts and other vendors during the event on Sept. 9, according to the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. The rates for tables are pretty reasonable, too.
Growth along the Mother Road
Many stretches of Route 66 are semi-deserted. Kingman, Ariz., is not one of them. Route 66 in that western Arizona city averages about 19,000 vehicles a day at one point. And a new study indicates that by 2023, traffic along the Mother Road in Kingman will jump to 38,000 vehicles a day, says the Kingman … Continue reading Growth along the Mother Road
Devils Elbow bridge targeted for repairs
Buried in this story from the Waynesville (Mo.) Daily Guide about the Pulaski County Tourism Board is this item: Thiem said he’s also working to follow up on a request by the Pulaski County Commission to get information on possible grants to restore the Devils Elbow bridge on Historic Route 66, which is in need … Continue reading Devils Elbow bridge targeted for repairs
Interesting nuggets from the 2008 festival
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's story about the Route 66 Preservation Foundation's annual festival in 2008 in Edwardsville contained a couple of interesting new items: O'Reilly Auto Parts, based in the Route 66 town of Springfield, Mo., will be a partner in that festival. The 2010 festival will tentatively be in Joliet, Ill.
Town plays up Route 66 connection
Wilmington, Ill., is trying to generate more business into its downtown area. So not only was one Web site created that hypes up the town's link to Route 66, but two, reports the Joliet Herald News. One Web site is www.route66wilmington.com. The other is a MySpace site, found here. (Hat tip to Lynn "Lulu" Bagdon.)
A look at one of St. Louis’ Route 66 alignments
St. Louis has a tangle of Route 66 alignments, more than any city I can think of on the Mother Road. One of them is the Manchester Road alignment. The proprietor of the Adventures of Secret Agent 009 blog recently traveled down that alignment and shot a slew of photos, mostly of the unique architecture … Continue reading A look at one of St. Louis’ Route 66 alignments
Flagstaff, land of … volcanoes?
Spud Hilton (yes, that's his name) of the San Francisco Chronicle decided to visit the Route 66 town of Flagstaff, Ariz., for a different reason than most tourists would -- he wanted to explore the region's volcanoes. Volcanoes? Yes, and not just a few of them, either. ... Flagstaff sits at the center of the … Continue reading Flagstaff, land of … volcanoes?
How two towns survived the bypass
The Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune has an interesting story about how two Wisconsin towns survived when U.S. 53 bypassed them. The story starts by comparing them to the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. In "Cars," the latest big-screen creation from Pixar and Walt Disney, a new highway bypasses a dusty desert town called Radiator … Continue reading How two towns survived the bypass