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All Roads Lead To Route-66.com |
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Mission Statement
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The mission
of "All Roads Lead To Route-66.com" is to benefit the
general public by promoting an awareness of Route 66, the road, it's people (those who
lived, worked and traveled on Route 66) and the history of the period (1920s through the
1970s). But to ignore the present means we will loose the battle of
preservation and perpetuation. Those who came before us MUST BE
REMEMBERED and those that will come MUST BE SUPPORTED by our patronage. |
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Purpose
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The
challenge to "All Roads Lead To Route-66.com" is to
bring to life the spirit and soul of Route 66 and those by-gone days through education and
preservation of our Route 66 heritage. Therefore, we must aspire to preserve a clear
vision of the past, in order to inspire the imagination of future generations.
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Goals
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To aid in accomplishing
our mission, "All Roads Lead To Route-66.com" has
identified four goals, They are:
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 | To promote membership in
Route 66 Associations throughout the world. |
| To promote participation
in Route 66 Museums that have been created for acquiring, preserving, restoring,
exhibiting, and interpreting historical artifacts for the Route 66 venue. |
| To promote tourism all
along Route 66 towns, cities and states from California to Illinois. |
| To establish a
centralized portal that will provide current information of upcoming events and serve as a
link to other Route 66 Websites.
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This site, as you might have guessed, is about Route 66, the
"Mother Road" or "Main Street of America." The goal is to offer
a different perspective of the road. We've seen pictures and post cards of motels
along Route 66 in it's prime and not so prime, but very few of the beauty that can be seen
and visited. You will be able to view the old in our "That was then this is
now" series, but you will be taking a digital tour of the present "Historic
Route 66". |
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The sunrise to the right was taken on Route
66. We will taking, at least, four views for each mile of the
road. 1.) Up the road. 2) Down the road. 3) To the left. 4) To the
right. See tour for more details.
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Sunrise on 66
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The Mother Road
Ride/Rally®
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I live and work just a few hundred yards from Route 66, so I
travel the road daily. The number of followers the road attracted surprised
me. Every summer thousands attend the Route 66 Roundup, Mother Road Ride and Rally,
The Route 66 Rendezvous
and other events across the country and the world. I was unaffected by all
this until I drove past the
Wig Wam Motel on Foothill
Blvd, in San Bernardino, California. I was hooked as nostalgia overtook
me. I remembered driving past the teepee shaped buildings on my family's
annual trips to Utah.
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Wig Wam Motel
San Bernardino, CA
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So this was a part of Route 66.
Arriving at our
destination marked the end of the first half of our trip. It was the getting there
that was all the fun. On the return journey we looked for sites we had missed and
begged to stop and explore the new ones we had found.
Nostalgia - Use It or Lose It by
Colonel 66.
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"Open-road travelers are made more than born. They are as different from
theme-park tourists as anything you can imagine. Tourists rush; travelers
mosey. Tourists look for souvenirs; travelers seek out the souvenir makers.
Tourists want to see all the right places; travelers simply go out into the country.
Travelers are openly romantic about the going itself, the adventurous possibility of it
all."
- From
An Introduction to ROUTE 66 THE MOTHER ROAD by Michael Wallis. |
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The man aimed his automobile down the old highway connecting Tulsa and Oklahoma
City. He didn't consider taking the turnpike. Not for a moment.
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would never do that. He was too old and time had become holy for him.
Time
was something he treasured. He knew the turnpike was a faster way to go, but it
wouldn't make the best use of his time. The "free road," as some folks
still called it, was the way to go. It was a road of character and memories, both
bitter and sweet. |
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As he drove in and out of towns along
the way and passed farms, fields, and crossed creeks, he saw that many things were still
the same. The drive made the old man feel young again, but with the patience and
honesty that come with age. Traveling the old road did that for him.
It gave him
the best of both worlds-past and present.
- From ROUTE 66 The Mother Road by
Michael Wallis |
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Linking
66 with Colonel 66 graphics by
http://www.webcrafts-by-laura.com
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IT'S THE END --- BUT IT IS ALSO THE BEGINNING.
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