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U.S. Route 66 Will Rogers Memorial Highway The final routing of U.S. Route 66 in red, with earlier alignments in pink Route information Length 2,448 mi (3,940 km) Existed November 11, 1926 (1926-11-11) –June 26, 1985 (1985-06-26) Tourist routes Historic Route 66 Major junctions West end Santa Monica, California East end Chicago, Illinois Location Country United States States California ...
66 Motel (Needles) – Former motel. Cucamonga Service Station ( Rancho Cucamonga, California) – Restored service station built in 1915 & now housing a museum of Route 66 & the local area. Bono's Historic Orange ( Fontana, California) – one of the last extant giant orange-shaped fruit stands once common to the region.
A Route 66 museum is a museum devoted primarily to the history of U.S. Route 66, a U.S. Highway which served the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, in the United States from 1926 until it was bypassed by the Interstate highway system and ultimately decommissioned in June 1985.
Now: Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Santa Rosa was bypassed by the 1972 construction of Interstate 40, which drew traffic from Route 66. It retains shreds of this past with a collection of classic hot ...
Route 66 history. Drone view of American car driving in a straight road of the famous Route 66. Route 66 was anointed on November 11, 1926, but it would take until 1938 before the entire route was ...
Old Route 66 westbound near I-40 exit 104. The historic U.S. Route 66 ( US 66, Route 66) ran east–west across the central part of the state of New Mexico, along the path now taken by Interstate 40 (I-40). However, until 1937, it took a longer route via Los Lunas, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe, now roughly New Mexico State Road 6 (NM 6), I-25, and ...
Route 66 Historical Village. Coordinates: 36.1083°N 96.0162°W. The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901 ...
U.S. Route 66 ( US 66, Route 66 ), the historic east–west US highway between Chicago, Illinois and Santa Monica, California, passed through one brief segment in the southeastern corner of Kansas. It entered the state south of Baxter Springs and continued north until it crossed Brush Creek, from where it turned east and left the state in Galena.