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Happy Birthday Route 66

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Mike Zenor, Nov 11, 2012.

  1. Established November 11, 1926. Preach it, Nat King Cole!

     
  2. pug man
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    Man that is HIP.......get your kicks on Route 66..... Happy Birthday....
     
  3. Didn't realize Nat King Cole preformed route 66,,good video. HRP
     
  4. outlaw256
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    we were plannin on takin a trip down the mother road this fall but life seem to get in the way so its gonna be this spring,but we are going.!!!! even going to swing up out of the way and met benno!!!
     

  5. 500 single
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    I just watched a four-part series with Billy Connely, (sp.?) where he rode his VW powered trike from Chi to LA on Rte. 66. Good show, entertaining and interesting. I found it on Netflix.
     
  6. unkledaddy
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    There's very little left of Route 66 today.

    I feel very fortunate to have traveled it four times end-to-end during it's
    hey-day..........once in 1956 with my older brother in his '53 Ford custom,
    twice in 1962 in a Greyhound bus, and once in 1964 in my newly purchased
    ($85.00) '51 Buick Roadmaster.

    Great memories! My only regret is that I didn't stop in Missouri and see Benno.
     
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  7. 59 brook
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    youre right unkle daddy not much original rt 66 but i got my kicks this year
     

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  8. 59 brook
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    an original section of rt 66 in ok
     

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  9. 50Fraud
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  10. waldo53
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  11. gregg
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    That's alot of candles!
     
  12. teejay99
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    Anybody remember The Four Freshmen , they did a nice version of Route 66 ........then there was the TV show Route 66 with Martin Milner and ( I think ) George Maharis ....different tune for the theme song done by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra . Used to watch the show every week just to see the red 'Vette ..61 or 62 .

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  13. wow...great performances...loved the Chuck Berry version, but Diana was a little easier on the eyes. I live 1 1/2 blocks of old 66 in Amarillo...seemed to be a little busier than normal this weekend, maybe that's why.
     
  14. Cool. While on my big adventure to the West a few years ago I drove bits of Route 66 along 40 and ended up on dead end side streets that were once part of RT 66. I picked a small chunk of the old pavement from layers of grass and dirt that covered most of it. It now sits in my shop with other mementos of my trip.
     
  15. five-oh
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    I'm surprised there's any pavement left. I did the same thing on one of my little side trips on Rt 66 on the bike. :D Just wish I could take the '46 on what's left of the old road.
     
  16. Davyj
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    Had the good fortune of driving route 66 this summer, what a great trip, from the Chicago pier all the way to Santa Monica pier.............I would recommend it to everyone.............
     

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  17. mrspeedyt
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    I live on it in kingman Arizona.
     
  18. xix32
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    An original section, bypassed long ago, near the Devils Elbow, Missouri. 2005

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  19. I drove it in 66 in a 48 caddy ambulance it was a great trip.
     
  20. 57Custom300
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    X2! Just moved here from Mi. I can get my kicks just going to the post office.

    My favorite "Route 66" song is the Stones version from their 1st album.
     
  21. towithome
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    I spent 2 weeks in the southwest tracking rt66 this summer, next time I'm not cutting it short......awesome!!
     
  22. I found this thread interesting enough that I started a new thread for all to post pictures of interesting points of interest. All in all very interesting to say the least. Any interest?
     
  23. I am 58 and I have been hearing her call me for sometime now.
     

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