The city of Joliet, Ill.'s fairly recent embrace of Route 66 has paid off again. This time, WLS-TV, the big ABC affiliate in Chicago, has featured it as one of its "one tank trips" for local tourists. Check it out. It's smart marketing. While the price of gas goes higher, Joliet is drawing visitors from … Continue reading TV station touts Joliet’s Route 66 connection
Route 66 on $250 a day?
Here's an interesting news release today from Best Western, the hotel chain: PHOENIX--Today Best Western International announced that it is partnering with veteran travel journalist Amy Graff to give vacationers a bird’s-eye view into Gen-X travel, via a blog and regular columns hosted on bestwestern.com. Amy, 34, will serve as the company’s new leisure travel … Continue reading Route 66 on $250 a day?
Pedestrian bridge at Avery Plaza is open
The pedestrian bridge at Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza in Tulsa is open, reports KJRH-TV. The bridge goes over Southwest Boulevard, which is one of the original alignments of Route 66. It is very close to the original 11th Street Bridge, on the east bank of the Arkansas River. Here's what the pedestria bridge looked like … Continue reading Pedestrian bridge at Avery Plaza is open
Illinois Motor Tour and Hall of Fame preview
The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph has a preview about the 19th annual Route 66 Association of Illinois Motor Tour. It runs over the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge in north St. Louis on Saturday morning, overnights in Lincoln, and ends Sunday in Wilmington. Scotty's Route 66 Bar & Grill in Hamel is holding registration for the … Continue reading Illinois Motor Tour and Hall of Fame preview
‘Mural City’ adds another decoration to its walls
The Route 66 town of Cuba, Mo., is known as Mural City because of its many murals that pay tribute to the people and events of its past. It's not exactly a mural, but a sculpture at Route 66 and Missouri Highway 19 creates much of the same effect. It's a 15-foot-long, 320-pound sculpture, created … Continue reading ‘Mural City’ adds another decoration to its walls
Rock Cafe starts a blog
It'll be a while before the Rock Cafe reopens after a fire gutted it last month. But owner Dawn Welch has already started a blog. It's only two days old, and it already has a half-dozen posts. Many of the entries (and photos) deal with the ongoing cleanup after the fire. But there's also this … Continue reading Rock Cafe starts a blog
Big rockin’ band
I've always liked this version of Bobby Troup's "Route 66" (with a brief nod to Nelson Riddle's arrangement) by the Brian Setzer Orchestra. And now it's on YouTube.
“This used to be the place I ran to …”
Emily has put together a slide show, with music, showing the aftermath of the fire that gutted the Rock Cafe in Stroud, Okla. The slide show is here.
“Route 66” DVD set will be released Aug. 5
TVShowsonDVD.com reports today that the Roxbury/Infinity DVD set, "Route 66 -- The Complete First Season," is set to be released Aug. 5. Earlier, the first-season release of the set had reportedly been delayed to fix technical issues arising in the initial half-season releases of the original "Route 66" television series, co-starring George Maharis and Martin … Continue reading “Route 66” DVD set will be released Aug. 5
“Desert Flowers on Route 66”
This is a folk group called Sweet Wednesday, and this is a performance of its song, "Desert Flowers on Route 66." Guitarist David Falk says the song will appear on an album, "Escaping from the Pale Moonlight," that will be released this fall. Here are the lyrics, straight from the source: It's overcast today on … Continue reading “Desert Flowers on Route 66”