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Sites to See: Route 66
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Historic Route 66
Historic Route 66 is mostly an elegiac remembrance of the Mother Road ("The best is still out west -- the Blue Swallow motel really is in Tucumcari"), though it also has a social conscience. A section ominously entitled "Threats" contains reports on blights like a garbage dump being planned in a California town along the road and a Dutch gent named Groeneveld who claims to own the rights to the "Route 66" name and is actually suing small companies who use it.
Route 66 Magazine
Route 66 Magazine has plenty of lengthy articles about the "highway that's the best" as well as a very amply stocked gift shop which carries, in addition to the requisite mugs, key chains, and shot glasses, a full line of Burma Shave products. Who knew Burma Shave still existed?
Norwegian Route 66 Association
Probably nowhere else online will you find the lyrics of Bobby Troup's classic song in Norwegian, but that's not the main reason to visit the home page of the Norwegian Route 66 Association. The site offers over three hundred Route 66-related links including the Jesse James Wax Museum in Stanton, Mo.; the Devil's Rope Museum in McClean, Texas, which houses a collection of barbed wire; and the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.
Photographic Images from Historic Route 66
Photographic Images from Historic Route 66 consists of several galleries of wonderful pictures by John K. Nakata and Charlene Fisher. Subjects include renovated hot rods, old buildings, old road signs and billboards, miscellaneous architectural elements, and characters seen along the road.
Largest Route 66 Resource on the Web
The Largest Route 66 Resource on the Web aggregates Web sites of businesses currently operating along the former route. They're organized by state rather than theme, which makes it useful for planning your trip. The site also provides directions for driving as much of Route 66 as remains, which is useful since the remnants have a variety of different designations.
These links are provided for informational purposes only. AARP does not endorse, and has no control over or responsibility for, the linked sites or the content, advertisements, materials, products, or services available on or throughout these sites.
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