Saturday, March 16, 2013

Route 66...A Trip Down Memory Lane


Well, I have never seen Route 66, except in videos and old posters, etc., but what I have seen I really like.  I find it to be nostalgic and brings back some great memories for me...from simpler times.  The video I am sharing is "Route 66...A Trip Down Memory Lane". 

Have any of you seen it...or know anyone who has?  From what I have seen, it seems like the kind of place I would have enjoyed with the old diners, old gas stations and many people seem to have such fond memories of it.  Is it abandoned now?

For those of you who have NOT seen Route 66, what nostalgic memories can be found in your part of the world?

Thank you all so much for visiting me here!  I really appreciate and enjoy reading your kind thoughts, which you can always share by clicking on the 'comments' link at the end of my post.

13 comments:

  1. When I was little, we lived on a farmplace off of Old Fulda Road. It was a narrow gravel road that was once the main route from Worthington to Fulda Minnesota. Then they built a nice wide highway a mile to the east and then later cut off entrance to the south with a freeway. It's now just a little, out-of-the-way road used by local farmers.

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  2. I've never been to Route 66. But I do remember driving to a certain lake with my family, several summers in a row. The road was very hilly and my dad and/or my uncle (whichever car I happened to be in) would drive really fast so that when we went over the hills, our stomachs would leap up and feel weightless for a second. That was so fun. I will always remember those trips. We kids loved it when our dads did that for us.

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  3. I've never seen Route 66. But there's a road in my county that was the main way to get from the area where our farm was in the country to the nearest city. It was two-lane the whole way. Now it's four lanes in some places and has really been populated. So different.

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  4. I've never seen it

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  5. Most of the old businesses are closed down, I've heard, but there is still some business from folks doing nostalgia trips, and around larger towns along the way. There used to be a TV show called "Route 66," I believe.

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  6. No, I have never seen it, and I guess it is really, really long. I do remember the T.V. show of the same name and the car driving away down it, but I never watched the show, either! Well, I was kinda young.

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  7. Hello Linda,
    Very great movie. So fantastic to see this nostalgic Route with the old vehicles and the old good music!!

    Many greetings,
    Marco

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  8. I like old things, and these virtual travel to the past. It is what you feel, because I feel the same with places to live. I love the video! Thanks for sharing. A kiss Linda.

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  9. We drove parts of Route 66 on a number of occasions on trips from Minnesota to Arizona. It was a main route heading west. At the time our car was a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. Lost a muffler once in Oklahoma. Overheated in Arizona. Great fun. Route 66 is still around though in some places it would be hard to find. Once the Interstates came along, it became superfluous.



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  10. Hey! Harold Lloyd snuck into this video! He's one of my favorite silent film stars.

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  11. Route 66 runs near St. Louis, MO...about a hundred miles from where I live. We have driven on parts of it in Missouri & the views are very pretty, especially in fall foliage time, with lots of hills & twists & turns.Most of what's referred to as the old "Mom& pop" businesses are gone. The interstate diverted the travelers away from the route & their businesses slowly died out. There are a few that have survived...mostly old tourist cottage motels that have survived by investing money in improvements that have played on the nostalgia theme. Some have closed & only the tumble-down facades remain, or they have converted to run down "rooming house apartments", attracting people too poor to rent a full-size modern apartment.
    Route 66 is the road less traveled because of all the small towns & slow downs on the route. Speed limits drop to 30-35 miles per hour in the towns, along with stop signs, stop lights, & active train tracks, which bring your trip to a hault while you wait for the train to rumble through, or stop & drop off train cars.
    On a positive note, I enjoyed the old rock n roll music. My friend & i had access to her brother's record player 7 all those old classics. We would load the record spindle with 45's & dance until the music stopped, then flip them over & dance to the "B" sides! We did this from the time we were 4 until about the age of 15, when boys became more improtant than the joys of childhood.
    Thanks for a stroll down memory lane, Linda!
    Much love,
    Kim

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  12. Thank you all so much for your comments, I really appreciate it!

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  13. Never seen 'Route 66', Linda, but love the old cars on pictures and movies.
    Lie(f)s.

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