#Route66 June 24

by Coach4aday · June 24, 2022

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Today for the 30-Day Sign Coach4aday Challenge my post is about ROUTE 66.

Bobby Troup wrote a song in 1946 that was first recorded by Nat King Cole that has inspired many automobile road trippers. Its lyrics became a mini travelogue for all the places that highway connected.

Driving west from Pennsylvania in 1946 Bobby Troup, an aspiring songwriter and music arranger, was trying to advance his career in Los Angles During the long trip, his wife, Cynthia, suggested that he write a song about highways, and she thought of the rhyme “Get your kicks on Route 66.”

History

Route 66 was commissioned in 1926 and fully paved by the late 1930s. Running from Chicago to Los Angeles, creating connections between hundreds of small towns and providing a trucking route through the Southwest.

John Steinback wrote about this highway in his novel “The Grapes of Wrath” and called it the “Mother Road”.

There have been a number of movies shot on US Route 66 including the ones listed below:

For those that remember 1960 TV shows there was “Route 66“. The two main characters were Buz played by George Maharis, and Tod played by Martin Milner, the two young adventurers drove the road in their Chevrolet Corvette for 116 episodes. It ran on Friday nights on CBS Television.

Here is a YouTube clip of the opening of the show’s first episode.