Route 66 is Steinbeck and Will Rogers and Woody Guthrie and Merle Haggard and Dorthea Lange and Mickey Mangle and Jack Kerouac. It's thousands of waitresses, service station attendants, fry cooks, truckers, grease monkeys, hustlers, state cops, wrecker drivers, and motel clerks. Route 66 is a soldier thumbing home for Christmas; annd Okie family still looking for a better life. It's a station wagon filled with kid wanting to know how far it is to Disneyland; a wailing ambulance fleeing a wreck on some lonely curve. It's yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Truly a road of phantoms and dreams, 66 is the romance of traveling the open highway.
- "Route 66 - The Mother Road" - Michael Wallis
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