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Rimgaudas Vidziunas:
Do any VilNews readers have any memories of traveling Historic Route 66?
Jenifer C. Dillis i vaguely remember selling my soul to the devil at The Crossroads......Sorry. It was pre-Canon days. No photo proof:(
Eric Ember no, but Im a real fan of the show which was broadcast from 1960 through 1963. Ive thought often of buying a 1962 Corvette and retracing the episodes.
Rimgaudas Vidziunas "Route 66" became available on dvd this year. tv series ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964.
Eric Ember I know! I have the DVDs for 1961. Although there were some good episodes after George Maharis left the show, for the most part they seemed to lack the philosophical and cultural underpinnings that were so crisp in the first 2 and one half seasons. My two favorite episodes were The Mud Nest and Good Night Sweet Blues. Living in Baltimore I was able recently to retrace the route and also find some of the locations in The Mud Nest.
Rimgaudas Vidziunas We immigrated to the USA in 1949 settling in Santa Monica. In the early 1950's we traveled Route 66 to our new home in Chicago, Illinois, several years later lived in Lexington, Illinois right on Route 66.
Jon Platakis Had travelled it many times from my home in Chicago. You can see the start of Route 66 in downtown Chicago.
Rimgaudas Vidziunas Thanks Jon Platakis, makes it start in Chicago at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Michigan Avenue ending in California at Santa Monica Pier.
Frank Passic In April, 1964 I rode with my father out to California the entire length of Rt 66 in a brand new 1964 T-bird. In Southern Illinois we hit a hailstorm and nearby tornado that blew the vinyl adhesive top off the hard top. In AZ a blizzard in the mts. In CA a sandstorm in the Mohave desert that pitted the windshield. By time we got to LA the car was totalled with weather/ sandstorm damage and we sold it and flew back to MI.
Boris Bakunas Never got to travel it. But as a kid, I loved the t.v. show. Thanks, Rim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ykDw-06H8
Sandra Abramovich Have been on small sections of it, primarily in Arizona, but never did the entire route.
Vyto Be did that whole trip before it was (too) hip about '74 and '88. Its probably time to revisit it, but I hear it's too self-consciously touristy now...
Viktorija Ruškulienė I traveled just Illinois and Arizona sections of Route 66.
Richard Vitkauskas I traveled it once when I was 11 years old.. still remember falling in love with the daughter of a motel owner.. ( musta been cause she looked like Annette Funicello).. I can just the imagine the number of places that had to go out of business when the interstate came along.
Boris Bakunas Every kid in Bridgeport was in love with Annette Funicello. Come five o'clock and the streets were empty.
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I traveled Route 66 from Chicago to Pheonix in1964 in 1964 Corvair. In 1967 I repeated the trip in a 1967 Corvette with my friend Sirvaitis. As the song goes I'd trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday.