Get your kicks on Route 66
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois. - Many artists from Nat King Cole to the Rolling Stones to Chuck Berry sang get your kicks on Route 66.
This is one of the most popular routes in the world.
KHQA's Chad Douglas concludes its points of interest with a stop not too far from the house along Route 66.
Points of Interest This takes us to Springfield, Illinois for a stop on the way to mother, some call it the main street of America, others just say Route 66. It stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles and was very popular in its time hey. However, one could argue that it is more popular today.One reason, people want to keep the story alive. One such person is Bill Shea of Springfield in Illinois.
It is now called Peoria road, but decades ago it was a piece of Highway 66. On the side of the road, gas station Shea. These days, 89 years, Bill Shea sits in front of the elderly station wishes as they come in. Back in 1944, he returned from World War II, he was part of the D-Day invasion, and the owner of a local Texaco station offered him a job. He took reluctantly. A few months later, the owner became ill and later died.Bill said the widow of the owner that he would stay with until she gets everything settled, but he never left. In 1955, he opened the station, which was much larger. He closed his business in 1982 but still owns the property, and he always greets customers. Today, they do not come in gas or a development, they come for a history lesson. In 1995, Bill, Bill and his son, also named decided to open a museum inside Route 66 Shea.
Bill Shea said, "It's hard to believe that we have people from all over the world. And we never spend a dime, not a single penny on advertising. "
This museum is famous.When I pulled into a family of Paris, France was to make a turn.
The bill is certainly no stranger to publicity. Read this article, it is in fact the People magazine in 1999. This is just one of thousands and probably thousands of artifacts by the museum. Each room has its own history.
Victor Krueger said, "I think it's fantastic. It's memories that brings back many old memories. It's great. "
Victor Krueger is a suburb of Chicago and winters in Arizona. Just about every year since 1985, he and his wife, the Route 66 drive.
Krueger said: "It's nostalgia.You return, you're on the highway and you pass the story. He's gone. You get the old U.S. 66 and can cruise along 45 or 50 miles per hour, enjoy the countryside and enjoy all the sites.
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Just about every year since 1985, he and his wife drive Route 66. Krueger says, "It's nostalgia. You go back, you're on the expressways and you pass history. It's gone. You get on old US 66 and they can cruise along 45 or 50 miles per hour,
Double-six captured the post-war spirit in l946 when Nat King Cole recorded “.” The Rolling Stones released a version in 1964. By then “Route 66,” starring Martin Milner and George Chakiris, was must-see black-and-white TV.
It has been a long journey, starting on this date in 1945 at a little village in South Oropouche, Trinidad, and now here I am on what Nat King Cole called "the highway that is best", and advised, "Get your kicks, on Route 66." Route 66 is also called
cellphone cameras when the Brownie camera was popularizing the snapshot. At the activity table, younger visitors can design their own postcards and use maps to help us find all the cities in Bobby Troup's classic song "Get Your Kicks on Route 66."
Get your kicks on Old Route 66 in Datil on Wednesday, Aug. 24, when the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs' Statewide Outreach Department sends its marvelous Museum on Wheels to Datil Elementary School. The van contains a Road Trips Exhibit of
Day 23. Been the best day of cycling yet…Get your KICKS on Route 66…
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We finally came to the highway, which is actually the famous Route 66! and carried on towards the city of Albuquerque and get there was amazing.After falling 800 + feet we had to climb back to 7000ft but only when it was downhill all the way into the city through the mountain ranges, which was breathtaking and fun ... easily reaching 30mph where roads literally falling and disappearing in the mountains ... It was fantastic ... and now we finished, we have some free time to enjoy life in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, where we will meet and be Carolyn Coffee Kids HQ
Such a day makes it harder day's worth, and everyone I really hope one day our path will, on their bikes will experience a bike ride like no other ...
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