yes....GREAT movie! ;)


So I'm told.  James had the DVD for Christmas and we watched it on Christmas Day.  Unfortunately I slept through a lot of it

There's a sign at the corner of Jackson and Michigan Ave. here in Chicago that says, "Historic Route 66. END." And then there's another sign a block away on Adams that says "Historic Route 66. BEGIN." They're one way streets, of course.

Side note: I grew up just off Route 66 in Missouri, and when I was a kid, I remember friends going out and "collecting" the old shield-shaped Route 66 signs before they were replaced with I-44 signs. Not coincidentally, these were the same friends who hoarded a garage-full of old Coke when new Coke came out.

There's a sign at the corner of Jackson and Michigan Ave. here in Chicago that says, "Historic Route 66. END." And then there's another sign a block away on Adams that says "Historic Route 66. BEGIN." They're one way streets, of course.

Side note: I grew up just off Route 66 in Missouri, and when I was a kid, I remember friends going out and "collecting" the old shield-shaped Route 66 signs before they were replaced with I-44 signs. Not coincidentally, these were the same friends who hoarded a garage-full of old Coke when new Coke came out.


Is there anyway to that you can take take pictures of those two signs and show them here? or e-mail me them?

Is there anyway to that you can take take pictures of those two signs and show them here? or e-mail me them?



I did a google image search and saw one. Check it out.



Cat

I did a google image search and saw one. Check it out.



Cat


Thanks Cat, I should have thought of that. If not, I was going Chicago this Spring and I'll find them at Jackson, Michigan and Adams Streets. I'm obessed! now to get those to pictures thanks to RTynanDDS. Thanks again.

I did a google image search and saw one. Check it out.



Cat


2d reply Cat. I did go to Google as you mentioned and found a link that showed a small map of the Jackson, Michigan and Adams Streets where the entrance and exits are in Chicago today, and a little history on how they got there. Originally Route 66 started at Lakeshore Dr., but in 1933 they needed more land for Chicago Worlds Fair at Lakeshore Dr.. and the land where the highway sat on was needed as part of the expansion, so they split Rt. 66 and moved the very start of the highway entrance, and exit, to where they are today at those mentioned streets.

There's a lot in information, I'll now check if those signs where photographed, if not, plan B is still a go! Thanks.

     

2d reply Cat. I did go to Google as you mentioned and found a link that showed a small map of the Jackson, Michigan and Adams Strees where the entrance and exits are in Chicago today, and a little history on how they got there. Originally Route 66 started at Lakeside Ave, but in 1933 they needed land for Chicago Worlds Fair at Lakeside Ave. and had to move the entrance and exit of the highway to it present areas...no pictures.

There's a lot in information, I'll now check if those signs where photographed, if not, plan B is still a go! Thanks.

   



No prob. Glad to help. Gotta love Google.



Cat

yes....GREAT movie! ;)

I checked it on imdb.com and found out that if not for the 1960's TV show,CARS  would've been released under its working title,ROUTE 66 ! That certainly would have been cool. Pixar makes awesome films but usually they don't have very creative titles, the only exceptions being "Finding Nemo"(2003) and "Ratatouille"(due this summer). Any more intriguing info?

Your Pal,
Doc (but still not Hudson)
8)

I checked it on imdb.com and found out that if not for the 1960's TV show, CARS would've been released under its working title, ROUTE 66 ! That certainly would have been cool. Pixar makes awesome films but usually they don't have very creative titles, the only exceptions being "Finding Nemo"(2003) and "Ratatouille"(due this summer). Any more intriguing info?

Your Pal,
Doc (but still not Hudson)
8)



yes, I would have loved for it to be called that! ;)

So....all of you "Route 66" aficionados.....wouldn't it be cool to take a month or two in the summer and get an RV, and travel the whole road...exploring neat roadside attractions? That has always been my dream to be able to do that....take pictures of my findings along the way....that to me...would be a PERFECT vacation!!

So....all of you "Route 66" aficionados.....wouldn't it be cool to take a month or two in the summer and get an RV, and travel the whole road...exploring neat roadside attractions? That has always been my dream to be able to do that....take pictures of my findings along the way....that to me...would be a PERFECT vacation!!



Except for the Panhandle of Texas where there is miles and miles and miles of absolutely NOTHING!!!!




Cat

Except for the Panhandle of Texas where there is miles and miles and miles of absolutely NOTHING!!!!




Cat


Maybe that's a good thing for any entrepreneur's reading this post and create tourist attractions along that way...maybe a  Armadillo petting zoos, or "The Texas Panhandle Flea Market" the pan handler's dream! or a string of Stucky's in a wild west motif. There's a lot of room for possibilities to make that stretch of Rt. 66 a pleasurable drive...maybe?

Maybe that's a good thing for any entrepreneur's reading this post and create tourist attractions along that way...maybe a  Armadillo petting zoos, or "The Texas Panhandle Flea Market" the pan handler's dream! or a string of Stucky's in a wild west motif. There's a lot of room for possibilities to make that stretch of Rt. 66 a pleasurable drive...maybe?



wow...sounds like a nifty thing to me! It it was there...I would definitely check it out! ;)

Maybe that's a good thing for any entrepreneur's reading this post and create tourist attractions along that way...maybe a  Armadillo petting zoos, or "The Texas Panhandle Flea Market" the pan handler's dream! or a string of Stucky's in a wild west motif. There's a lot of room for possibilities to make that stretch of Rt. 66 a pleasurable drive...maybe?



I don't know if Stucky's is still in business. Our last trip across country, we only saw old, boarded up ones. If someone were to do that, all the workers would probably have to drive miles and miles and miles just to get to work. From Amarillo to Tucumcari, NM there is not much there-you are lucky if you see a tree. Oh, there is the Cadillac Ranch but that is closer to Amarillo.



http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:6uak4b4k7SweDM:http://www.national66.org/photos/046CadillacRanch.jpg


http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:QaZUWNdmP9r-QM:http://www.info66.de/Home/Route66-Photo_Gallarie/Texas/Route66-Texas-Cadillac_Ranch2/Cadillac_Ranch2100.jpg




Cat

Oh, there is the Cadillac Ranch but that is closer to Amarillo.


http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:6uak4b4k7SweDM:http://www.national66.org/photos/046CadillacRanch.jpg

Hey Quirk, do you or anyone else who saw CARS  find that this picture reminds you of somewhere?

Your Pal,
Doc
8)

Hey Quirk, do you or anyone else who saw CARS  find that this picture reminds you of somewhere?

Your Pal,
Doc
8)



yes, it definitely does! :)

I don't know if Stucky's is still in business. Our last trip across country, we only saw old, boarded up ones. If someone were to do that, all the workers would probably have to drive miles and miles and miles just to get to work. From Amarillo to Tucumcari, NM there is not much there-you are lucky if you see a tree. Oh, there is the Cadillac Ranch but that is closer to Amarillo.




http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:6uak4b4k7SweDM:http://www.national66.org/photos/046CadillacRanch.jpg


http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:QaZUWNdmP9r-QM:http://www.info66.de/Home/Route66-Photo_Gallarie/Texas/Route66-Texas-Cadillac_Ranch2/Cadillac_Ranch2100.jpg




Cat


There's still Stuckey's around and in Texas too, but a guess not in the part of the state. Although I do like that Cadillac Ranch, that's worth a trip right there!

Cat you got me thinking, or dreaming...When I was a little kid I always thought the Cowboy and Indian movies where real at the time and all the stories where the men wearing the black hats were the bad guys who highjacked stagecoaches and stole cattle and tied up girls on railroad tracks for their deeds to their ranches, and good guys in wore the white hats where the heros who always kicked the bad guys asses all the time.

To me Texas was the wild wild west and all that cowboy stuff only happened in Texas, and I wanted to live that life of a cowboy and re-live those movies...Now, wouldn't it be cool to have a theme park re-creating the old wild west in live action? I mean like drive on Rt. 66 to a created wild west theme park like Disney World as the starting point in the panhandle, but it doesn't stop there, now you take an acted out stage coach ride for about 50 miles with it being held-up by masked bandits and raided by Indians, and then maybe the next 50 miles of cattle driving with cattle rustlers and an overnight campout and then maybe another 50 miles on horse back Pony Express style and at the end of the show another 50 miles on an old fashion rail road pulled by an old steam engine getting raided by more masked bandits, then we have to rescuing maidens tied to the railroad tracks and Indian Teepee camps dotting the landscape, but the train also has your car on it from the starting point and at the end of the ride you get back into your car and drive the rest of the way to California in your 10 gallon white hats...sounds cool huh?

Any investors out there?
 

There's still Stuckey's around and in Texas too, but a guess not in the part of the state. Although I do like that Cadillac Ranch, that's worth a trip right there!

Cat you got me thinking, or dreaming...When I was a little kid I always thought the Cowboy and Indian movies where real at the time and all the stories where the men wearing the black hats were the bad guys who highjacked stagecoaches and stole cattle and tied up girls on railroad tracks for their deeds to their ranches, and good guys in wore the white hats where the heros who always kicked the bad guys asses all the time.

To me Texas was the wild wild west and all that cowboy stuff only happened in Texas, and I wanted to live that life of a cowboy and re-live those movies...Now, wouldn't it be cool to have a theme park re-creating the old wild west in live action? I mean like drive on Rt. 66 to a created wild west theme park like Disney World as the starting point in the panhandle, but it doesn't stop there, now you take an acted out stage coach ride for about 50 miles with it being held-up by masked bandits and raided by Indians, and then maybe the next 50 miles of cattle driving with cattle rustlers and an overnight campout and then maybe another 50 miles on horse back Pony Express style and at the end of the show another 50 miles on an old fashion rail road pulled by an old steam engine getting raided by more masked bandits, then we have to rescuing maidens tied to the railroad tracks and Indian Teepee camps dotting the landscape, but the train also has your car on it from the starting point and at the end of the ride you get back into your car and drive the rest of the way to California in your 10 gallon white hats...sounds cool huh?

Any investors out there?
 



wow...totally neato!

There's still Stuckey's around and in Texas too, but a guess not in the part of the state. Although I do like that Cadillac Ranch, that's worth a trip right there!

Cat you got me thinking, or dreaming...When I was a little kid I always thought the Cowboy and Indian movies where real at the time and all the stories where the men wearing the black hats were the bad guys who highjacked stagecoaches and stole cattle and tied up girls on railroad tracks for their deeds to their ranches, and good guys in wore the white hats where the heros who always kicked the bad guys asses all the time.

To me Texas was the wild wild west and all that cowboy stuff only happened in Texas, and I wanted to live that life of a cowboy and re-live those movies...Now, wouldn't it be cool to have a theme park re-creating the old wild west in live action? I mean like drive on Rt. 66 to a created wild west theme park like Disney World as the starting point in the panhandle, but it doesn't stop there, now you take an acted out stage coach ride for about 50 miles with it being held-up by masked bandits and raided by Indians, and then maybe the next 50 miles of cattle driving with cattle rustlers and an overnight campout and then maybe another 50 miles on horse back Pony Express style and at the end of the show another 50 miles on an old fashion rail road pulled by an old steam engine getting raided by more masked bandits, then we have to rescuing maidens tied to the railroad tracks and Indian Teepee camps dotting the landscape, but the train also has your car on it from the starting point and at the end of the ride you get back into your car and drive the rest of the way to California in your 10 gallon white hats...sounds cool huh?

Any investors out there?
 



That sounds....um....interesting. 50 miles in a stage coach sounds...um...uncomfortable to me. I know there are wild west theme parks out there somewhere.


Cat

That sounds....um....interesting. 50 miles in a stage coach sounds...um...uncomfortable to me. I know there are wild west theme parks out there somewhere.


Cat


In time, you'll see, when the oceans swell over the coast lines and the panhandle will be choice beachfront property you'll see more and more Rt. 66 attractions and boardwalk resorts along it's coast line...maybe in our life time too the way global warming is taking it's toll.

In time, you'll see, when the oceans swell over the coast lines and the panhandle will be choice beachfront property you'll see more and more Rt. 66 attractions and boardwalk resorts along it's coast line...maybe in our life time too the way global warming is taking it's toll.



You could be right. Now would be the time to invest in the some real estate there. I'm sure you could get it REAL CHEAP because right now NO ONE wants to live there.




Cat

You could be right. Now would be the time to invest in the some real estate there. I'm sure you could get it REAL CHEAP because right now NO ONE wants to live there.




Cat


Seeee? there's a method to my madness.

Seeee? there's a method to my madness.



Or a madness to your method?  ;)




Cat

Have you guys ever seen this neato attraction? I just stumbled upon a postcard of it on Ebay.  It's a blue whale in Catoosa, Oklahoma.  

http://www.theroadwanderer.net/66Oklahoma/images/OKCatoosaBlueWhale.jpg

Hugh Davis built it in the early 1970s as an anniversary gift to his wife Zelta. The Blue Whale and its pond became a favorite stop and swimming hole for both locals and travelers alike.

http://www.theroadwanderer.net/66Oklahoma/catoosa.htm