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Historic Route 66: Major junctions; West end: Santa Monica, California: East end: Chicago, Illinois: ... Williams was the last point on US 66 to be bypassed by an ...
U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, the Mother Road or Main Street of America, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California. The highway had previously been Illinois Route 4 (IL 4) and the ...
[11] [16] Small sections of Old Route 66 to the west and east of Parks are listed on the NRHP under the name Abandoned Route 66, Parks (1921). [8] Just southeast of Parks, where Old Route 66 dead ends, US 66/US 89 crossed present-day I-40 diagonally to briefly parallel the Santa Fe Railway, before being subsumed into the route of I-40 once again.
Route 66 originally ended smackdab in the center of downtown Los Angeles on the corner of Broadway and 7th, though today the widely accepted stopping point is Santa Monica Pier.
No matter where you start or end your Route 66 road trip (some people go east to west to mimic the migration, others west to east, or you can pick a state or two to focus on), take ample time to ...
US 69/Route 66 bends to the east as it exits the north side of Commerce. About 1.8 miles (2.9 km) after this bend, US 69 diverts to the north. Alternate US 69 begins at this point, and Alternate 69/Route 66 continues east, bending north as the highway enters the south end of Quapaw, Oklahoma.
Unconstructed. Deleted. Freeways. ← SR 65. → SR 66. U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a part of a former United States Numbered Highway in the state of California that ran from the west in Santa Monica on the Pacific Ocean through Los Angeles and San Bernardino to Needles at the Arizona state line. It was truncated during the 1964 ...
Midpoint Cafe got its name because it's the geographic midway point between Chicago and Los Angeles on historic Route 66 — both cities are 1,139 miles away from the cafe. It was built in 1928 ...