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Your best RT 66 pictures
« on: August 22, 2021, 06:11:50 PM »
Let’s see them!





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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2021, 06:20:10 PM »
look close; you'll see the sign.

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2021, 08:31:20 PM »
perhaps not the best but interesting







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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2021, 08:42:40 PM »








close enough





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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2021, 08:42:40 PM »

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2021, 10:11:32 PM »
Good ones!  Keep em coming!
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2021, 10:33:41 AM »
Nothing from the Cadillac Ranch?

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2021, 10:48:08 AM »
Shoot man, I LIVE on Rt66  :thumb:



This in Max, I think he was out by Kingman, Az.?


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Not that there's anything wrong with that :grin: :grin: An old Missouri town when words had a different meaning  :thumb:
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2021, 12:25:41 PM »
I'll play!













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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2021, 12:36:08 PM »
I remember going by the Cadillac ranch on the way to Louisiana from Arizona in the sixties and there was no graffiti on the cars, alot has changed since then  :weiner:
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2021, 01:53:59 PM »
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2021, 02:15:37 PM »
Somewhere there's a picture of me at the base of the Mickey Mantle statue in Commerce.  I'll try to dig it up.

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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2021, 02:46:52 PM »
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2021, 02:52:45 PM »
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2021, 02:54:37 PM »
That almost has to be a part of the original roadbed running along the North side of the later one somewhere just West of Stroud .

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You are close, sir!  Between Depew and Stroud Oklahoma.
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2021, 04:02:31 PM »

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2021, 04:04:26 PM »
Shamrock, Texas Correct?

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That's it! 

Route 66 at Main Street in Shamrock Texas!
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2021, 04:08:01 PM »
Snell Road.





Midway from Chicago to Santa Monica.





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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2021, 04:12:16 PM »
hey hey...more good ones guys!

The FM one from Texas with Old Route 66 looks cool too...
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2021, 04:20:47 PM »


From 2011, I assume it has not changed much since.
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2021, 04:34:17 PM »
We rode old 66 about 15 years ago between Flagstaff and Kingman. From Ash Fork west its pretty much the old pavement that looks like the section in Oklahoma above. What’s missing other than Seligman is the unique places and people that made 66 unique. I drove it a number of times in the 60s while on leave from the Navy. It was still mostly two lane until you got to Illinois. Memorable for sure.

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2021, 04:39:53 PM »
Well apparently I was wrong. I just found out Cadillac ranch that it was started in 74,  so I'm not sure what I was thinking about. I finally remembered it was 74 or 75 when I left ok to go back to az. :boozing:
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2021, 04:51:28 PM »
Here's a few from historic Williams, AZ, "The Gateway to the Grand Canyon" 

I spent my 67th birthday up there August 8th.  We stayed at the Red Garter Inn, (now restored), which was a famous bordello up until the 1940's.  There are only 5 rooms upstairs! :thumb: :boozing: :cool: :wink:



























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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2021, 05:05:42 PM »
Did you visit the house he was raised in to stand on the hallowed ground where his dad and uncle pitched to him ? Man , that's like a spiritual experience .

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No.  I didn't know about that.  I like Mantle-there's something about a guy who could play better when he was drunk than most other players could when sober.  Besides, I was headed up the road to scenic Picher.

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« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2021, 05:16:35 PM »
Did you visit the house he was raised in to stand on the hallowed ground where his dad and uncle pitched to him ? Man , that's like a spiritual experience .

 TS

Could this be a ride meet-up?  Or this no longer possible?
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #24 on: August 23, 2021, 05:56:35 PM »
Some years ago I was doing guided Route-66 tours for EagleRider.  On one tour we had several German clients.  One of these (Herman the German) couldn't speak a word of English.  But, as we discovered at an evening bar, he was a fantastic guitarist and vocalist.  The house band was on break and he asked if he could use their guitar.  Great performance.   He knew all sorts of 'American' songs but not with understanding.   When we got to Winslow, AZ he enjoyed the song playing on the local speakers and was singing along with it.  Of course,  he had no idea what the words meant and he had no idea that this was THE CORNER referenced in the song.  We worked with several other Germans to translate and explain the significance to him.  You could literally see the light bulb go off in his head.  What a trip!

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2021, 06:36:42 PM »


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« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2021, 06:36:53 PM »


From 2011, I assume it has not changed much since.

I was there in 2009, and IIRC that was a complete building then, not just the facade.
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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2021, 07:41:59 PM »
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Youtube video of the place more recently.

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Re: Your best RT 66 pictures
« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2021, 07:47:53 PM »

That's the stuff I like.  The old original, narrow Rt. 66 pavement.

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« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2021, 07:53:09 PM »
If you are asking about the house , fairly sure the site is still open although the museum in the little house is probably closed at the moment . Maybe next Spring ? It is just a simple facility on a side street in Commerce .

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I'd like to see it.  Never new about it. 
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