howie and myra route 66 index

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Route 66 Scrapbook

We took this trip in May of 2001, and had a lot of fun doing it. This page is being revised into more of a scrapbook style. New Mexico, Arizona, and California are done. The other states are still just a photo gallery. You can view them by clicking on the road sign for each state. This is only a sampling of what you can find if you look for it. If you are adventuresome there are all kinds of interesting things to be found.

If you click on the "State Association" under the road sign, it will take you to the Route 66 Association web site for that state.

Texas Association

New Mexico Association

Arizona Association

California Association

Interesting Facts:

Current maps do not include old Route 66.
Route 66 is 2448 miles long.
Route 66 was commissioned in 1926, picking up as many as possible bits and pieces of existing road.
Route 66 crosses 8 states and 3 time zones.
Route 66 starts in Chicago, and ends in L.A. (Santa Monica).
In 1926 only 800 miles of Route 66 were paved. Only in 1937 Route 66 got paved end-to-end.
You can only drive parts of Route 66 these days... it has been replaced by the interstate highways I-55, I-44, I-40, I-15 and I-10, but still a surprisingly high amount of old road is waiting to be found by the more adventurous traveler.
Route 66 is also know as "The Mother Road", "The Main Street of America" and "The Will Rogers Highway".
During all of its life, Route 66 continued to evolve, leaving many abandoned stretches of concrete, still waiting to be found by the more adventurous traveler.
Route 66 was also the title of a TV series playing from 1960 till 1964
Cyrus Stevens Avery from Tulsa Oklahoma can be called the father of Route 66
In 1985 Route 66 was officially decommissioned, but for daily use it was replaced far earlier by the Interstates.