Route 66: United We Stand…

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, by Colin Woodard (2011) map, with Route 66 overlay

Route 66: United We Stand, Divided We Fall

    • Prologue: Route 66 – 100 Years of Going West for a Better Future
    • Preamble: Finding America – 250 Years Young
      • United We Stand, Divided We Fall – Aesop’s The Four Oxen and the Lion and The Bundle of Sticks, “Liberty Song”, state motto of Kentucky
    1. Chicago Route 66: Second City Yankeedom- Chicago
    2. Prairie Illinois Route 66: Grand Prairie Midlands (1/2)
    3. Lincoln’s Illinois Route 66: Lincoln’s Borderlanders (1/4) – Land of Lincoln
    4. Saint Louis Route 66: Gateway Midlands (2/2) – Saint Louis
    5. Missouri Route 66: Ozark Borderlanders (2/4)
    6. Oklahoma Route 66: Sooner State Borderlanders (3/4)
    7. Texas Route 66: Staked Plain Borderlanders (4/4)
    8. New Mexico Route 66: El Norte (1/2) – Santa Fe
    9. Southwest Tribes Route 66 – Northwestern New Mexico & Northeastern Arizona
    10. Arizona Route 66: Canyon Country Far West (1/2)
    11. California Route 66: Inland Empire Far West (2/2) – Inland Empire
    12. Los Angeles Route 66: The Big Orange El Norte (2/2) – Los Angeles
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain

Illinois – Illinois Old Route 66

1.0 Yankeedom – Second City

Values
    1. Education
    2. Intellectual achievement
    3. Communal empowerment
    4. Common good
    5. Citizen participation in government as a shield against tyranny
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Ordinary World
    • Inner Journey: Limited awareness of problem
    • Topic: Third Coast Elites
People
    • Frontier: Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, John Kinzie, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
    • Entrepreneur: Marshall Field, George Pullman, Philip D. Armour, Cyrus McCormick
    • Architects: Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    • Mayors: William B. Ogden, Richard J. Daley, Harold Washington, Richard M. Daley
    • Political Leaders: Jesse Jackson, Pope Leo XIV, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
    • Novelists: Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright
    • Writers: Roger Ebert & Gene Siskel, Gary Gygax, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair
    • Actors: Dennis Farina, Harrison Ford, Nichelle Nichols, Oprah Winfrey
    • Comedians: Blues Brothers: Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi, Ghostbusters: Bill Murray & Harold Ramis, Second City: Alan Alda & Tina Fey, Daily Show: Steve Carell & Stephen Colbert
    • Criminals: Al Capone, John Dillinger, H. H. Holmes, Baby Face Nelson
    1. Chicago – Timeline
      1. Chicago Origins
      2. First Star: Fort Dearborn Era
      3. Second Star: Second City
      4. Third Star: The City Beautiful
      5. Early Roaring Twenties
      6. Route 66 Established
      7. Fourth Star: Renaissance
      8. Modern Chicago
    2. Chicago – Early Skyscrapers (World Heritage Tentative List)
      1. Rookery Building (1888) (Height: 180′; Floors: 12)
      2. Auditorium Theatre Building (1889) (Height: 238′; Floors: 17)
      3. Monadnock Building (1889-1891) (Height: 197′; Floors: 17)
      4. Second Leiter Building & Ludington Building (1891) (Both – Floors: 8)
      5. Old Colony Building (1894) (Height: 210′; Floors: 17)
      6. Marquette Building (1895) (Height: 205′; Floors: 16)
      7. Fisher Building (1896) (Height: 275′; Floors: 20)
      8. Schlesinger & Mayer Building (Sullivan Center) (1899) (Height: 207′; Floors: 12)
    3. Chicago – Skyline
      1. Six North Michigan Avenue (The Tower Building; Montgomery Ward & Company Building – The Loop) – 282′; tallest building in Chicago: 1899-1922
      2. The Wrigley Building (Streeterville) – 425′; tallest building in Chicago: 1922-1924
      3. Chicago Temple Building (The Loop) – 568′; tallest building in Chicago: 1924-1930
      4. Chicago Board of Trade Building (The Loop) – 605′; tallest building in Chicago: 1930-1965
      5. Richard J. Daley Center (The Loop) – 648′; tallest building in Chicago: 1965-1969
      6. John Hancock Center (875 North Michigan Avenue – Streeterville) – 1,127′; tallest building in Chicago: 1969-1973
      7. Aon Center (The Loop) – 1,136′; formerly known as the Standard Oil Building; tallest building in Chicago: 1973-1974
      8. Sears Tower (Willis Tower – The Loop)- 1,451′; 3rd-tallest building in the United States; 26th-tallest building in the world; tallest building in the world: 1974-1998)
    4. Chicago – Grant Park & Navy Pier 
      1. Field Museum
      2. Shedd Aquarium
      3. Adler Planetarium
      4. The Heart of Grant Park – Buckingham Fountain
      5. Congress Plaza & Abraham Lincoln Head of State Statue
      6. Art Institute of Chicago
      7. Millennium Park & Maggie Daley Park
      8. Navy Pier & Architecture Boat Tour
    5. Chicago – North Side
      1. Rogers Park – Lifeline Theatre (2010 Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere)
      2. Uptown – Aragon Ballroom (2011 Weezer Concert)
      3. Lake View – Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs)
      4. Lincoln Park – The Second City comedy club
      5. Gold Coast – Ernest Hemingway Apartment
      6. River North – Marina City (House of Blues Chicago)
      7. Magnificent Mile – John Hancock Center (360 Chicago)
      8. Streeterville – Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (2013 TEDx)
    6. Chicago – South Side
      1. Riverdale – Underground Railroad & public housing
      2. South Deering – Port of Chicago (Lake Calumet)
      3. Pullman – Pullman National Historical Park
      4. Woodlawn – Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum & Obama Presidential Center
      5. Hyde Park – World’s Columbian Exposition & Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum (Oriental Institute Museum)
      6. Washington Park – DuSable Museum of African American History
      7. Bronzeville – Monument To The Great Northern Migration, Chicago race riot (1919), Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, Richard Wright House, & Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Home
      8. Chinatown – Chinese American Museum of Chicago
    7. Chicago – West Side
      1. West Loop – Union Station & Haymarket Memorial
      2. West Town – Ukrainian Village
      3. Humboldt Park – National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
      4. University Village/ Little Italy – Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
      5. United Center Park – Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks (Michael Jordan Statue)
      6. Lower West Side – Heart of Chicago & Pilsen (National Museum of Mexican Art)
      7. Lawndale – Castle Car Wash (Al Capone Hide Out)
      8. Little Village (La Villita) – Mexican and Mexican American community
    8. Chicago – Metro
      1. Cicero – Henry’s Drive-In
      2. Lyons – Chicago Portage National Historic Site
      3. Riverside – First planned suburb
      4. Oak Park – Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District & Ernest Hemingway
      5. La Grange – Kimball and Cobb Stone Quarry & Marx Brothers Chicken Farm
      6. Burr Ridge – One of the wealthiest suburbs of Chicago (limited sidewalks)
      7. Willowbrook – Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket
      8. Downers Grove Township – Argonne National Laboratory
Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL
Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL

2.0 Prairie Illinois Midlands

Values – Midlands
    1. Pluralistic
    2. Welcoming
    3. Middle-class society
    4. Political opinion is moderate
    5. Government regulation is frowned upon
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Call to Adventure
    • Inner Journey: Increased awareness of need for change
    • Topic: The Agrarian Struggle
People
    • Blues Brothers: Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi
    • John Wayne Gacy & Baby Face Nelson
    • Virgil “Gus” Grissom
    • Prince Albert Edward (“Bertie”/ King Edward VII)
    • Bob Waldmire
    1. Lockport (Northern Will County)
      • Bolingbrook
        1. White Fence Farm Main Restaurant
        2. Hidden Lakes Historic Trout Farm
      • Plainfield
        1. The Plainfield Inn
        2. Village Green Park
      • Lockport
        1. Lockport Lock and Canal
        2. Des Plaines River & Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
      • Crest Hill
        1. Prairie Bluff Preserve
        2. Lidice Memorial
    2. Joliet (County Seat of Will County)
      1. City of Steel and Stone (population: 150,000)
      2. First Dairy Queen (opened in 1906)
      3. Old Joliet Prison
        • John Wayne Gacy & Baby Face Nelson
        • Blues Brothers
      4. Joliet Area Historical Museum and Route 66 Welcome Center – Joliet Wall Mural
      5. St. Mary Carmelite Church
      6. Joliet Public Library
      7. Rialto Square Theatre – “Jewel of Joliet”
      8. Jacob Henry Mansion – Gilded Age
    3. Elwood (Central Will County)
      1. Elwood Blues – The Blues Brothers (1980)
      2. Elder Tree Forest or Elf Woodland
      3. Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
      4. Joliet Army Training Area
      5. Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
      6. Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
      7. Buffalo or Bison
      8. CenterPoint Intermodal Center
    4. Wilmington (Southern Will County) (population: 6,000)
      1. Virgil “Gus” Grissom (1926–1967)
      2. Launching Pad Drive-In (former home of the Gemini Giant)
      3. Town Square – Claire’s Corner Park
      4. Downtown
      5. Kankakee River – The Island City
      6. Island Park (new home of the Gemini Giant)
      7. Wilmington Dam
      8. Grand Kankakee Marsh
    5. Braidwood & Gardner
      • Braidwood (Southwestern Will County)
        1. “The Little Macaroni Capital”
        2. Polk-A-Dot Drive In & Braidwood Zoo
        3. Braidwood Generating Station Nuclear power plant
        4. Godley – Illinois Mining Museum
      • Gardner (Grundy County) (population: 1,000)
        1. Two Cell Jail
        2. Historic Streetcar Diner (horse-drawn streetcar/diner)
        3. Riviera Roadhouse Memorial Place (burned down 2010)
        4. The Shop On Route 66
    6. Dwight (Northern Livingston County) (population: 4,000)
      1. Gothic Church Dwight Townhall
      2. Old Livingston Hotel & Veterans’ Hospital
      3. Dwight Banking Center – Peoples National Bank of Kewanee
      4. Dwight Train Station (Dwight Historical Society)
      5. John R. Oughton House
        • Oughton Estate Windmill
        • Prairie Creek Public Library
      6. Old Route 66 Family Restaurant
      7. Ambler’s Texaco Station
      8. Prince Albert (later King Edward VII) Prairie Chicken Hunting
    7. Odell (Central Livingston County)
      • Odell (population: 1,000)
        1. Mobile Gas Station
        2. Odell Pedestrian Tunnel
        3. St Paul Catholic Church
        4. Standard Oil Station
        5. Wishing Well Cafe
      • Cayuga
        1. Meramec Caverns Barn Sign
        2. Cayuga Grain Elevator
        3. Prairie Central Co-op Pontiac Grain Elevator
    8. Pontiac (County Seat of Livingston County) (population: 11,000) (Chief Pontiac)
      1. Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum (Pontiac City Hall and Fire Station)
      2. Bob Waldmire Road Yacht
      3. Wall Murals
      4. Brick Downtown
      5. Livingston County Courthouse
      6. Livingston County Civil War Memorial
      7. Historic Illinois State Police Building
      8. Historic Route 66 Old Bridge Rooks Creek
Postville Courthouse State Historic Site
Postville Courthouse State Historic Site, Lincoln, Illinois (1953 replica of 1840 original)

3.0 Lincoln’s Illinois Borderlanders – Land of Lincoln

Values – Borderlanders
    1. War-ravaged borderland perseverance
    2. Personal sovereignty
    3. Individual liberty
    4. Intensely suspicious of aristocrats
    5. Intensely suspicious of social engineers
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Refusal of call
    • Inner Journey: Fear; resistance to change
    • Topic: Emancipation is not enough
People
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
    1. Normal & Bloomington (McLean County)
      1. Chenoa (population: 2,000) – Selz Royal Blue Shoes Mural (painted over)
      2. Lexington – Lexington Sign, Lexington Motel, & Oasis Drive-in
      3. Towanda – Historic Route 66 Trail (unused old roadway)
      4. Normal (population: 54,000)
        • Sprague’s Super Service Station
        • Illinois State University
        • Normal Theater
        • Rivian’s largest U.S. manufacturing plant
      5. Bloomington – The Evergreen City (population: 78,000)
        • Abraham Lincoln (practiced law here, often)
        • Brass Pig Smoke & Alehouse
        • David Davis Mansion State Historic Site
        • Illinois Wesleyan University
        • McLean County Museum of History (old courthouse)
      6. Shirley – Old Shirley Depot
      7. Funks Grove – Funks Grove Pure Maple Sirup
      8. McLean
        • McLean Depot Train Shop
        • Dixie Truckers Home
        • Arcadia: America’s Playable Arcade Museum
        • Pinball Paradise
    2. Atlanta (Northern Logan County)
      1. Population: 2,000
      2. Paul Bunyon Hot Dog Statue
      3. American Giants Museum
      4. Palms Grill Cafe
      5. Atlanta Public Library and Clock Tower
      6. Route 66 Park
      7. J.H. Hawes Grain Elevator and Museum
      8. Smiley Face Water Tower
    3. Lincoln (Southern Logan County & Northern Sangamon County)
      • Lincoln (population: 13,000)
        1. Lincoln Watermelon Monument (Lincoln christen the new town with a watermelon)
        2. Logan County Courthouse & Lincoln City Hall (with a phone booth on the roof)
        3. Grand  Theater & Lincoln Theater
        4. Postville Courthouse State Historic Site & Lincoln College
        5. Railsplitter Covered Wagon
      • Broadwell – Pig Hip Remains (Ernie & Fran Edwards)
      • Elkhart – Gillett Memorial Arch
      • Williamsville (population: 1,500; Northern Sangamon County) – Boxcar Museum & Die Cast Motors
    4. Lincoln’s Springfield (State Capital & County Seat of Sangamon County)
      1. Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site
      2. Illinois State Fairgrounds – Abe Lincoln Rail Splitter Statue
      3. Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site
      4. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
      5. Old State Capitol (Senator Barack Obama announced his presidential candidacy here)
      6. Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site
      7. Lincoln Depot
      8. Lincoln Home National Historic Site
    5. Springfield – The Flower City (population: 113,000)
      1. Springfield Union Station
      2. Springfield race riot of 1908
      3. Cozy Dog Drive-In
      4. Route 66 Hotel
      5. Horseshoe sandwiches
      6. Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop
      7. Dew Chilli Parlor
      8. Dana-Thomas House – Frank Lloyd Wright
    6. Litchfield & Mount Olive (Montgomery County & Macoupin County)
      1. Glenarm – Historic Sugar Creek Covered Bridge
      2. Auburn – Brick section of Route 66
      3. Virden
        • Town Square Monument: 1898 Battle of Virden – Mine workers (Illinois coal wars)
        • Route 66 Mural at Sav-Mor Pharmacy
      4. Girard – Turkey Tracks on Route 66
      5. Carlinville – Macoupin County Courthouse & Cannonball Jail
      6. Raymond – Our Lady of the Highways
      7. Litchfield (population: 7,000)
        • Ariston Cafe
        • Jubelt’s Bakery & Restaurant
        • Vic Suhling Gas Station sign at the Litchfield Museum and Route 66 Welcome Center
      8. Mount Olive (population: 2,000)
        • Mary Harris “Mother” Jones – Mother Jones Monument at Union Miners Cemetery
        • Soulsby Station
    7. Livingston-Granite City (Madison County)
      • Livingston  (population: 700)
        1. Pink Elephant Antique Mall
        2. Henry’s Rabbit Ranch
        3. Staunton Coal Company
      • Edwardsville (population: 26,000)
        1. Wildey Theatre
        2. Brick Street District
      • Collinsville (population: 24,000)
        1. Horseradish Capital of the World
        2. World’s Largest Catsup Bottle
      • Granite City (population: 27,000)
        1. Chain of Rocks Bridge
    8. Vandalia & East Saint Louis
      • Vandalia (Former State Capital & County Seat of Fayette County) (Population: 7,000)
        1. Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site
        2. Madonna of the Trail statue
        3. National Road Interpretive Center
      • East Saint Louis (St. Clair County)
        1. Population: 17,000 (peak population 1950: 82,000)
        2. East St. Louis race riot (1917)
        3. Gateway Geyser
        4. Spivey Building
        5. Downtown East St. Louis Historic District
          • Miles Davis with Ike & Tina Turner
Gateway Arch National Park, Saint Louis

4.0 Saint Louis Midlands – Saint Louis Route 66

Values – Midlands
    1. Pluralistic
    2. Welcoming
    3. Middle-class society
    4. Political opinion is moderate
    5. Government regulation is frowned upon
Values – New France
    1. Egalitarian
    2. Liberalism
    3. Tolerant attitudes toward gays and people of all races
    4. Consensus driven
    5. Ready acceptance of government involvement in economy
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Meeting the mentor
    • Inner Journey: Overcoming fear
    • Topic: Overcoming Saint Louis’s fall
People
    • Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
    • Dred & Harriet Scott
    • Ulysses S Grant
Events
    • 2014: Ferguson, MO riots following the shooting of Michael Brown
    1. Cahokia Mounds
      1. Mississippian culture: largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico
      2. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park
      3. UNESCO World Heritage Site
      4. Monks Mound
      5. Grand Plaza
      6. Mound 72 (Birdman burial)
      7. Twin Mounds
      8. Woodhenge (next to general contractor)
    2. French Colonial Illinois Country
      • Cahokia (population: 12,000)
        1. Cahokia Courthouse
        2. Holy Family Log Church & Jarrot Mansion
      • Prairie du Rocher (population: 500)
        1. Fort de Chartres State Historic Site
        2. Creole House
      • Ellis Grove (population: 300)
        1. State Historic Sites: Pierre Menard Home, Fort Kaskaskia, & Felix Valle House
        2. Modoc Rock Shelter
      • Kaskaskia (population: 10-20-ish)
        1. Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial
        2. Immaculate Conception Chapel
    3. Sainte Genevieve (Population: 5,000)
      • Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park
        1. Jacques Guibourd Historic House
        2. Beauvais-Amoureux House
        3. Janis-Ziegler Home (Greentree Tavern)
      • Other Ste. Geneviève French Colonial historic sites
        1. Felix Valle House State Historic Site
        2. The Centre for French Colonial Life & the Bolduc House Museum
        3. Bequette-Ribault House
        4. Labruyere House
        5. Kiel Schwent House
    4. Saint Louis – Lafayette Square & Forest Park
      • Lafayette Square
        1. Lafayette Square National Historic District Victorian townhomes & Park Avenue Coffee (gooey butter cake)
        2. Lafayette Park – Marquis de Lafayette
        3. Statue of Senator Thomas Hart Benton
      • Forest Park
        1. Forest Park (centennial of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 – St. Louis World’s Fair site)
        2. City Art Museum – Apotheosis of Saint Louis
        3. Jewel Box Conservatory & Colonial Daughter Fountain
        4. World’s Fair Pavilion & Nathan Frank Bandstand in Pagoda Lake
        5. Jefferson Memorial – Missouri History Museum
    5. Saint Louis – Gateway Arch National Park
      1. Gateway to the West
      2. Former Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
      3. Gateway Arch
      4. Museum at the Gateway Arch
      5. Old Courthouse
      6. Dred and Harriet Scott Statue
      7. Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France
      8. Luther Ely Smith Square
    6. Saint Louis – Downtown
      1. City population: 275,000; peak city population 1950: 857,000; metro: 2.8 million
        • Cotton Belt Freight Depot
        • Old One AT&T Center
        • Seal of Missouri – United We Stand, Divided We Fall
      2. Mound City – St. Louis’s beginning as a French village in 1764
      3. Saint Louis Union Station – The Wheel
      4. National Blues Museum
      5. Historic Water Towers
        • Grand Avenue Water Tower
        • Bissell Street Water Tower
      6. Sugarfire Smoke House Barbecue
      7. Saint Louis style thin crust pizza
      8. Lee Avenue
    7. Saint Louis – University City
      1. George Washington University
      2. Delmar Loop
      3. Salt + Smoke Barbecue
      4. Fitz’s Root Beer Floats
      5. St. Louis Walk of Fame
      6. Blueberry Hill (famous Chuck Berry venue)
      7. Chuck Berry Statue
      8. Jackson Park Elementary School & Mooney Park (formerly Jackson Park) along (Andrew) Jackson Avenue
    8. Saint Louis – Metro
      1. The Fabulous Fox Theatre
      2. St. Louis Car Museum
      3. Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
      4. Donut Drive-In
      5. Ted Drewes Frozen Custard
      6. Magic House – St. Louis Children’s Museum
      7. The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park
      8. National Museum of Transportation
Spencer Garage, Spencer
Spencer Garage, Spencer

5.0 Missouri Ozark Borderlanders

Values – Borderlanders
    1. War-ravaged borderland perseverance
    2. Personal sovereignty
    3. Individual liberty
    4. Intensely suspicious of aristocrats
    5. Intensely suspicious of social engineers
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Crossing the threshold
    • Inner Journey: Committing to change
    • Topic: How to be a good person
People
    • Jesse James
    • Edwin Hubble
    • Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
    • George Washington Carver
    1. Stanton
      • Wildwood & Eureka
        1. Wildwood – Big Chief Roadhouse
        2. Eureka – Route 66 State Park
      • Pacific
        1. Red Cedar Inn
        2. Opera House of Pacific
      • Stanton
        1. Meramec Caverns
        2. Jesse James Museum
      • Bourbon
        1. Circle Inn Malt Shop
        2. Bourbon Hotel
    2. Cuba – Mural City
      • Cuba – Mural City (population: 3,000)
        1. Wagon Wheel Motel
        2. Phillips 66 Station
        3. Civil War Murals
        4. Gold Star Boys & the “Blue Bonnet” Mural
        5. Amelia Earhart Mural
        6. Prosperity Corner Mural
        7. Bob’s Gasoline Alley
      • Fanning – World’s Second Largest Rocking Chair
    3. Rolla & Devils Elbow
      • Rolla (population: 20,000)
        1. Stubby Stonehenge
        2. Totem Pole Trading Post
      • Devils Elbow
        1. Hooker Cut
        2. Devils Elbow Bridge
      • Saint Robert
        1. Uranus Missouri Towne Center – World’s Largest Belt Buckle
        2. Route 66: Neon Sign Park
      • Gascozark & Hazelgreen
        1. Gascozark Cafe (abandoned)
        2. Gasconade River Bridge
    4. Lebanon
      • Lebanon (population: 10,000)
        1. Munger Moss Motel
        2. Wrinks Market
        3. E.D. Rush Covered Bridge
        4. Lebanon-Laclede County Library Route 66 Museum
      • Phillipsburg
        1. Underpass Cafe (closed)
        2. Redmon’s Candy Factory & World’s Largest Gift Store
      • Marshfield (population: 7,000)
        1. RV Express RV Park and Route 66 Motel
        2. Hubble Telescope Replica (Edwin Hubble hometown)
    5. Springfield, Missouri
      1. Queen City of the Ozarks (Population: 170,000)
      2. Birthplace of Route 66 – Birthplace Plaza
      3. Rest Haven Court & Queens Gateway
      4. Rockwood Motor Court
      5. Original Steak ‘n Shake
      6. Mudhouse Coffee
      7. Park Central Square
      8. Gillioz Theatre
    6. Paris Springs-Webb City
      • Paris Springs – Sinclair Station
      • Spencer – Spencer Garage
      • Carthage (population: 15,000)
        1. Red Oak II
        2. Boots Motel
        3. Jasper County Courthouse
        4. 66 Drive-In
      • Webb City (population: 13,000)
        1. Bradbury Bishop Deli
        2. Route 66 Visitors Center (former station)
    7. Joplin (population: 53,000)
      1. Route 66 Mural Park
      2. Joplin Union Depot (abandoned)
      3. Fox Theatre
      4. Bonnie and Clyde Garage Apartment
      5. Woody’s Wood-Fire Pizza
      6. Grand Falls
      7. Diamond – George Washington Carver National Monument
      8. Neosho – Confederate Capital of Missouri
    8. Kansas – Route 66
      • Galena
        1. Cars on the Route/old Kan-O-Tex Service Station & Diner
        2. Howard Litch Memorial & Gearhead Curios
        3. Mining and Historical Museum
      • Riverton
        1. Eisler Brothers General Store
        2. Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge
      • Baxter Springs
        1. Baxter Springs Independent Oil and Gas Service Station
        2. Former Bus Station
        3. Monarch Pharmacy & Soda Fountain
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

6.0 Oklahoma: The Sooner State & Native America

Values – Borderlanders
    1. War-ravaged borderland perseverance
    2. Personal sovereignty
    3. Individual liberty
    4. Intensely suspicious of aristocrats
    5. Intensely suspicious of social engineers
Values – American Indians

(researchgate.net)

    1. Community (take care of others) – including humility
    2. Cooperation – including giving indirect criticism
    3. Generosity and sharing – including patience
    4. Respect for elders – including listening to learn
    5. Live in harmony with nature and all things – including time is relative
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Tests, Allies, & Enemies
    • Inner Journey: Experimenting with new conditions
    • Topic: Truth and reconciliation

People

    • Mickey Mantle
    • Will Rogers
    • Woody Guthrie
    • Garth Brooks
    1. Picher & Commerce – Quapaw Nation
      • Quapaw
        1. Quapaw Nation
        2. Quapaw Tribal Museum
      • Picher
        1. Tar Creek Superfund site due to lead poisoning
        2. Picher Gorillas Statue
      • Commerce
        1. Allen’s Fillin’ Station
        2. Dairy King
        3. Mickey Mantle Boyhood Home
        4. Mickey Mantle Memorial Statue
    2. Miami – Miami Tribe, Peoria Nation, & Ottawa Tribe
      1. Miami Tribe
      2. Peoria Nation
      3. Ottawa Tribe
      4. Waylans Kuku
      5. Coleman Theater
      6. Route 66 Vintage Iron
      7. Route 66 Gateway Sign
      8. Sidewalk Route 66
    3. Afton-Catoosa – Cherokee Nation
      1. Cherokee Nation
      2. Afton – Will Rogers Highway Marker & Afton Station Packard Museum
      3. Todd – McDougal Filling Station
      4. Vinita – Clanton’s Cafe & Western Motel
      5. Chelsea – Chelsea Motel & First Oil Well In Oklahoma
      6. Foyil – World’s Largest Totem Pole & Andy Payne Memorial Statue
      7. Claremore – J.M. Davis Arms Historical Museum & Will Rogers Memorial
      8. Catoosa – Blue Whale & Twin Bridges over Verdigris River
    4. Tulsa (Green Country) – Muscogee (Creek) Nation
      1. Muscogee (Creek) Nation: Creek Nation Council Oak Park
      2. Greenwood District: Black Wall Street (1921 Tulsa Race Massacre)
      3. Blue Dome District: Blue Dome Building (1924 filling station)
      4. Deco District: Philcade Building (DECOPOLIS Tulsa Art Deco Museum)
      5. Tulsa Arts District: Woody Guthrie Center & Guthrie Green
      6. Meadow Gold District: Meadow Gold Sign
      7. Tulsa East Side: Hank’s Hamburgers
      8. Tulsa West Side-Sapulpa-Bristow: Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza (East Meets West sculpture)
    5. Stroud-Acadia
      • Stroud (Lincoln County)
        1. Rock Cafe & Skyliner Motel
        2. Neon on Main
      • Chandler
        1. Chandler Phillips 66 Station
        2. Museum of Pioneer History
      • Warwick
        1. Seaba Filling Station
      • Luther (Eastern Oklahoma County)
        1. Threatt Filling Station Route 66 (Green Book)
      • Acadia
        1. The Round Barn
        2. Pops 66
    6. Oklahoma City
      1. State Capitol
      2. National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
      3. Oklahoma City National Memorial
      4. Gold Dome & Milk Bottle Grocery
      5. Tower Theatre & The Pump Bar
      6. Uptown Old Phillips 66 Station & Mutts Amazing Hot Dogs
      7. Phillips Gull Wing Station & Western Trail Trading Post
      8. Former Sinclair Filling Station & Tucker’s Onion Burgers
    7. El Reno & Hinton– Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
      1. Yukon – Garth Brook’s hometown & Express Clydesdales
      2. El Reno – Twisters movie setting & Sid’s Diner
      3. Fort Reno & Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
      4. Calumet – Cherokee Trading Post
      5. Geary – Bridgeport Hill Service Station
      6. Hinton
        • Red Rock Canyon State Park (now Red Rock Canyon Adventure Park)
        • Wichita Tribe, Caddo Nation, & Delaware Nation
      7. Hydro – Lucille’s Service Station
      8. Weatherford “Space City” – Stafford Air & Space Museum
    8. Clinton & Elk City – Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
      1. Clinton – Oklahoma Route 66 Museum
      2. Foss – Kobel’s Place Gas Station (abandoned)
      3. Canute – Washita Motel Sign & Cotton Boll Hotel Sign
      4. Elk City
        • Ackley Park Wooden Carousel
        • National Route 66 Museum and Transportation Museum
      5. Sayre
        • Beckham County Court House
        • Sayre Rock Island Depot and Shortgrass Country Museum
      6. Black Kettle National Grassland
      7. Erick – Sandhills Curiosity Shop
      8. Texola – Tumbleweed Grill
Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo
Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo

7.0 Staked Plain-Texas Borderlanders

Values – Texas Borderlanders
    1. War-ravaged borderland perseverance
    2. Personal sovereignty
    3. Individual liberty
    4. Intensely suspicious of aristocrats
    5. Intensely suspicious of social engineers
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Approach of inmost cave
    • Inner Journey: Preparing for major change
    • Topic: Old economy to green economy
    1. Shamrock (Wheeler County)
      1. Conoco Tower Station & U-Drop Inn Cafe
      2. Western Motel
      3. Texas Theatre
      4. Blarney Stone
      5. Pioneer West Museum
      6. Magnolia Gas Station
      7. Shamrock Water Tower
      8. Hometown of radio personality Bill Mack “The Midnight Cowboy”
    2. McLean (Gray County)
      1. Devil’s Rope Barbed Wire Museum
      2. Rattlesnakes Sign
      3. Main Street paved with red bricks
      4. McLean-Alanreed Area Museum
      5. Restored 1929 Route 66 Gas Station
      6. Avalon Movie Theater
      7. Murals of McLean
      8. Cactus Inn
    3. Groom (Carson County)
      • Groom
        1. Leaning Tower (Gray County)
        2. Chalet Inn
        3. Groom Cross & Stations Of The Cross
        4. Center-pivot irrigation systems
      • Panhandle
        1. Six-Shooter Smokers
        2. First Tree of the Texas Panhandle
        3. Patriot Peace Garden
      • Conway
        1. Longhorn Trading Post (ruins)
    4. Amarillo (Potter County)
      1. Big Texan Steak Ranch & Big Texan Motel
      2. Slug Bug Ranch & Paramount Theatre Sign
      3. Ranchotel Historic Motel & Sixth Street Historic District eastern gateway sign
      4. San Jacinto Fire Station & The Natatorium
      5. Cazzell Buildings & Bussey Buildings – Lile Art Gallery
      6. Borden’s Heap-O-Cream & Adkinson-Baker Tire Company
      7. Carolina Building & Dutch Mill Service Station and Café
      8. San Jacinto Methodist Church & Moe Dogs Grill/Taylor’s Texaco Station & Martin’s Phillips 66 Station
    5. Palo Duro Canyon (Randall County) & Western Amarillo
      1. Palo Duro Canyon State Park
      2. TEXAS Outdoor Musical
      3. Park Hills Elementary School (renamed from Robert E. Lee Elementary School in 2019)
      4. Ellwood Park (1930s Confederate monument removed  in 2021)
      5. Randall County (named after Confederate Brigadier General Horace Randal)
      6. Helium Time Columns Monument & Amarillo Helium Plant/Historic Marker
      7. 2nd Amendment Cowboy
      8. Cadillac Ranch
    6. Vega (Eastern Oldham County)
      1. Antelope Mural & Bonanza Motel
      2. Roark Implement & Hardware Store
      3. Magnolia Service Station
      4. Williamson Simpson Oldham Monument (Confederate legislator)
      5. Oldham County Courthouse & Library
      6. Vega Motel & Hickory Inn Cafe
      7. Rooster’s Mexican Restaurant & Cantina
      8. Desert Rose Motel (Sands Motel)
    7. Adrian & Glenrio
      • Adrian (Western Oldham County)
        1. The Bent Door Cafe
        2. Former Phillips 66 gas station
        3. Midway Point of Route 66
        4. Midpoint Café
        5. Sunflower Station
      • Glenrio
        1. Deaf Smith County – “Beef Capital of the World”
        2. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations  (see: Quality Beef Producers in Wildorado)
        3. First⁄Last Motel – Longhorn Motel and State Line Café & Gas Station
    8. Tucumcari (Quay County, New Mexico)
      1. Tucumcari Historical Museum
      2. Odeon Theatre
      3. Tucumcari Railroad Museum
      4. Mesalands Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory
      5. Damon Kvols Park – Welcome Mural
      6. Comanche Territory Historical Marker
      7. Motel Safari & Blue Swallow Motel
      8. New Mexico Route 66 Museum & Route 66 Monument
Blue Hole, Santa Rosa
Blue Hole, Santa Rosa
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe

8.0 New Mexico El Norte+

Values – El Norte
    1. Independence & Personal Sovereignty
    2. Self-Sufficiency & Hard Work
    3. Resilience & Adaptability
    4. Pragmatic Conservatism
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Ordeal, death, & rebirth
    • Inner Journey: Attempt big change (feeling of life or death)
    • Topic: Immigration reckoning
    1. Santa Rosa
      1. Silver Moon Cafe
      2. Route 66 Auto Museum
      3. Sun & Sand Restaurant
      4. La Loma Lodge & RV Park
      5. Club Cafe
      6. Guadalupe County Courthouse
      7. Comet II Drive In & Restaurant
      8. Blue Hole
    2. Clines Corners & Moriarty – “Crossroads of New Mexico”
      1. Stanley – Edge of the Plains Historical Marker
      2. Clines Corners – Roy Cline Service Station
      3. Wagon Wheel – Old Radar Base
      4. Moriarty – Lariat Motel
      5. Moriarty – Old Cactus Motel
      6. Edgewood – Midway Trading Post Route 66
      7. Tijeras – Tijeras Canyon Historical Marker
      8. Carnuel – Musical Road (America the Beautiful)
    3. Upper Pecos River Valley
      1. La Loma – Mela Leger Official Scenic Historic Markers
      2. Anton Chico – San Jose Catholic Church
      3. Villanueva – Historic Spanish Colonial Village
      4. Sena – Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church In El Pueblo
      5. Ribera – San Miguel del Vado Church
      6. San Jose – Santa Fe Trail monument
      7. Pecos – Pecos National Historical Park
      8. Glorieta – Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass
    4. Santa Fe – Oldest state capital in the U.S.
      1. Santa Fe Plaza & Palace of Governors and New Mexico History Museum
      2. Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
      3. Canyon Road Arts District and the nearby Kakawa Chocolate House
      4. Loretto Chapel and San Miguel Mission
      5. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum & Museum Hill
      6. Santa Fe Railyard Arts District
      7. Santa Fe historic accommodations: Santa Fe Sage Inn, Stage Coach Motor Inn, Inn at Loretto, Silver Saddle Motel, El Rey Inn, & Kings Rest Court
      8. Taos Pueblo (to the north)
    5. Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway
      1. El Rancho de las Golondrinas
      2. Bonanza Creek Ranch – Bonanza City
      3. Origami in the Garden & Box Studio Sculpture Garden
      4. Museum of Encaustic Art
      5. Los Cerrillos – Cerrillos Hills State Park
      6. Madrid – Madrid Old Coal Town Museum
      7. Golden – San Francisco de Asis Catholic Church & Bottle House
      8. Sandia Park – Tinkertown Museum
    6. Albuquerque – East Central Avenue
      1. “Duke City” – National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
      2. La Puerta Motor Lodge
      3. Luna Lodge
      4. Bow and Arrow Lodge
      5. Tewa Motor Hotel
      6. Hiland Theatre
      7. University of New Mexico – Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
      8. Route 66 Diner
    7. Albuquerque – Downtown
      1. National Hispanic Cultural Center
      2. Albuquerque Amtrak Station (ABQ)
      3. Wheels Museum
      4. KiMo Theater
      5. El Rey Theater
      6. The Hotel Blue
      7. Dog House Drive-In
      8. ABQ BioPark
    8. Albuquerque – Old Town
      1. Casas de Suenos Old Town Historic Inn
      2. La Jornada (The Journey) Monument
      3. Albuquerque Museum
      4. Plaza Don Luis
      5. San Felipe de Neri Church
      6. Old Town Plaza
      7. Rattlesnake Museum
      8. Petroglyph National Monument
Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park

9.0 Southwest Tribes Far West

Values – American Indians

(researchgate.net)

    1. Community (take care of others) – including humility
    2. Cooperation – including giving indirect criticism
    3. Generosity and sharing – including patience
    4. Respect for elders – including listening to learn
    5. Live in harmony with nature and all things – including time is relative
Values – Far West
    1. Radical individualism – personal freedom
    2. Self-determination
    3. Self-reliance, but with industrial-scale cooperation
    4. Deep suspicion of government and corporations
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Reward (seizing the sword)
    • Inner Journey: Consequences of attempt; acceptance of new life
    • Topic: New paradigm for living life
    1. Laguna & Acoma
      • Laguna Pueblo
        1. Rio Puerco Bridge – The 66 Pit Stop – Home of the Laguna Burger & Route 66 Casino Hotel
        2. Mesita – Owl Rock & Deadman’s Curve
        3. Old Laguna – San José de la Laguna Mission Church (1699)
        4. Seama – Khe Sanh Bridge Scenic Marker
      • Acoma Pueblo – Sky City
        1. Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum
        2. San Estevan del Rey Mission Church Historic Site
        3. Cebolleta Historical Marker
        4. Dinosaur Rock & Enchanted Mesa
    2. Grants & Chaco
      • Grants
        1. El Malpais National Monument
        2. Sands Motel & New Mexico Mining Museum
      • Milan
        1. Kachina Country USA
      • Northwest New Mexico – Chaco Culture National Historical Park
        1. Pueblo Bonito (“Beautiful Town”)
        2. Casa Rinconada (“Cornered House”)
        3. Kin Kletso (“Yellow House”)
        4. Pueblo Alto (“High Town”)
      • Continental Divide
        1. Continental Divide Indian Market & Whiting Brothers Motel and Service Station
    3. Zuni & Gallup
      • Zuni Pueblo – Zuni-Cibola Complex National Historic Landmark (meritorious to be a national historical park) – Legendary Seven Cities of Gold
        1. Zuni Visitor Center/Zuni Pueblo Main Street and Old Zuni Mission
        2. Halona: Idiwan’a (the Middle Place) and other Pueblo of Zuni (town) tours
        3. Zuni artists (traditional pottery, stone “fetish” carving, silversmith/jewelry, woodcraving, painting, beadwork, traditional foods and cooking/bread baking, weaving, and music and dance)
        4. Hawikuh Ruins, Village of the Great Kivas, Badger Springs, and Zuni Pueblo (nation) tours; A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center
      • Gallup
        1. El Rancho Hotel & other historic accommodations: Arrowhead Lodge, Blue Spruce Lodge, Lariat Lodge, Zia Motel, Redwood Lodge, El Coronado Motel, Colonial Motel, &  Ranchito Motel
        2. Gallup Amtrak Station & Gallup Cultural Center
        3. Code Talker Mural & El Morro Theatre
        4. McKinley County Courthouse & Courthouse Plaza
    4. Monument Valley
      1. Navajo Nation – Diné
      2. Hogan
      3. World War II Code Talkers
      4. The Mittens
      5. John Ford Point
      6. Ear of the Wind
      7. Flying Sheep Petroglyph Panel
      8. Sky Window Arch
    5. Petrified Forest National Park
      1. Painted Desert – Painted Desert Inn
      2. Petrified Forest Route 66 Site
      3. Rainbow Forest Museum – Giant Logs
      4. Crystal Forest
      5. Agate Bridge
      6. Blue Mesa
      7. Puerco Pueblo
      8. Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
    6. Holbrook
      1. Crystal Forest Museum & Gifts
      2. Wigwam Motel
      3. Joe and Aggies Diner
      4. Gillespie Park – Powwows
      5. El Rancho Motel & Restaurant
      6. Holbrook Railroad Station
      7. Bucket of Blood Saloon – Hashknife Cowboys
      8. Dinos of Holbrook & Rainbow Rock Shop
    7. Hopi & Winslow
      • Joseph City
        1. Jackrabbit Trading Post
      • Hopi Reservation
        1. Mesa-top villages Walpi and Old Oraibi
      • Winslow
        1. Homolovi State Park
        2. Winslow Train Station & La Posada Garden
        3. Standin’ on a Corner
        4. Old Trails Museum & Hubbell Trading Post
        5. Historic accommodations: Travel Lodge, Desert Sun Motel, Navajo Lodge, Marble Motel/Earl’s Motor Court, Westerner Motel, Former Astro Motel/Motel 10, Town House Lodge, & Entre Lounge
      • Meteor City
        1. Meteor City Trading Post & Barringer Crater
    8. Two Guns & Twin Arrows
      • Two Guns
        1. 1970s Shell – Graffiti Gas Station
        2. Abandoned KOA Campground
        3. Two Guns 2nd Zoo and 1940s Texaco Ruins
        4. Two Guns Trading Post Ruins
        5. Apache Death Cave
        6. Canyon Diablo Bridge
      • Twin Arrows
        1. Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort
        2. Twin Arrows Trading Post Ruins
Grand Canyon National Park
Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park
Oatman Hotel and burros
Oatman Hotel and burros

10.0 Arizona Canyon Country Far West

Values – Far West
    1. Radical individualism – personal freedom
    2. Self-determination
    3. Self-reliance, but with industrial-scale cooperation
    4. Deep suspicion of government and corporations
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Road back
    • Inner Journey: New challenge and redirection
    • Topic: New paradigm for travel
    1. Winona
      1. “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”
      2. Wynonna Judd
      3. Walnut Canyon Bridge
      4. Walnut Canyon National Monument
      5. Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
      6. Wupatki National Monument
      7. Arizona National Scenic Trail
      8. Grand Falls (Chocolate Niagara)
    2. Flagstaff
      1. “City in the Pines” – Coconino National Forest
      2. Elden Pueblo Heritage Site
      3. Little America Hotel
      4. Santa Fe Railroad Depot
      5. Hotel Monte Vista & Downtown
      6. Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
      7. Lowell Observatory
      8. Navajo Army Depot
    3. Williams
      1. “Gateway to the Grand Canyon”
      2. Rod’s Steak House
      3. Wild West Junction
      4. Pete’s Route 66 Gas Station Museum
      5. Historic accommodations: The Historic Grand Canyon Hotel, Star Hotel Route 66 – Grand Canyon, & Highlander Motel
      6. Neon Signs at Night
      7. Santa Fe Railcar Bridge
      8. Williams Train Station – Grand Canyon Railroad
    4. Grand Canyon National Park
      1. Desert View & Watchtower
      2. Lipan Point
      3. Tusayan Ruin & Museum
      4. Moran Point
      5. Grandview Point
      6. Mather Point
      7. Grand Canyon Village
      8. Rim to Rim Hike
    5. Seligman
      1. “Birthplace of Historic Route 66”
      2. Delgadillo’s Snow Cap
      3. Angel Delgadillo’s Barber Shop
      4. Stagecoach 66 Motel
      5. Classic Cars at Octane Art on Route 66
      6. Supai Motel
      7. Road Kill Cafe
      8. Westside Lilo’s Cafe
    6. Peach Springs & Hackberry
      1. Historic Burma Shave Sign
      2. Grand Canyon Caverns & Inn
      3. Hualapai Lodge & Historic Peach Springs Trading Post
      4. Diamond Creek Rd to Colorado River
      5. Frontier Motel
      6. Valentine Red School House
      7. Hackberry General Store
      8. Ranchero Motel – Giganticus Headicus
    7. Kingman
      1. “Turquoise Capital of the World”
      2. Hill Top Motel
      3. El Trovatore Motel
      4. Kingman Railroad Museum & Amtrak Station
      5. Mohave County Courthouse
      6. Mr D’z Route 66 Diner
      7. Locomotive Park – Santa Fe Steam Engine #3759
      8. Powerhouse Visitors Center & Arizona Route 66 Museum
    8. Oatman
      1. Oatman Highway
      2. Cool Springs
      3. Sitgraves Pass
      4. Shaffer Springs
      5. Wild Burros
      6. Jackass Junction
      7. Oatman Hotel
      8. Oatman Outlaws (Mock Gunfights)
Topock Maze
Topock Maze
Roy’s Motel and Cafe, Amboy
Roy’s Motel and Cafe, Amboy

11.0 California Inland Empire Far West

Values – Far West
    1. Radical individualism – personal freedom
    2. Self-determination
    3. Self-reliance, but with industrial-scale cooperation
    4. Deep suspicion of government and corporations
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Resurrection
    • Inner Journey: Final attempts; last minute danger
    • Topic: New paradigm for purpose
    1. Needles
      1. One of the hottest cities in the U.S.
      2. Needles Railroad Borax Wagon & Old Trails Inn/ Palms Motel
      3. El Garces Hotel & Needles Regional Museum
      4. Desert Mirage Inn & River Valley Motor Lodge
      5. Wagon Wheel Restaurant
      6. Rio Del Sol Inn & Fender’s River Road Resort
      7. Topock-Needles Bridge
      8. Topock Maze
    2. Amboy
      • 1883 Santa Fe Railroad ABC towns
        1. Amboy, Bristol, Cadiz, Danby, Edson (later renamed Essex), Fenner, Goffs, Homer, Ibis, and Java
        2. 1897 Klinefelter between Ibis and Java; and later Saltus and Bannock also not in alphabetic order
      • Goffs
        1. “Desert Tortoise Capital of the World” & Schoolhouse Museum
      • Essex
        1. Wellington’s Wayside Cafe & Market (abandoned)
        2. Mojave National Preserve
      • Chambles
        1. Cadiz Summit (abandoned) & Road Runner’s Retreat (sign)
      • Amboy
        1. Roy’s Motel & Cafe
        2. Amboy Crater
    3. Ludlow
      1. Mojave Trails National Monument
      2. Bagdad – Hallowed Ground
      3. General Patton Historical Campsite at World War II Desert Training Center
      4. Ludlow Cafe
      5. Ludlow Motel
      6. Murphy Brothers General Store (ruins)
      7. Ragtown Historic Mining Area
      8. Pisgah Crater Lava Flow
    4. Newberry Springs
      • Newberry Springs
        1. The Volcano House
        2. Whiting Bros Station (remains)
        3. Bagdad Café (see 1987 film)
        4. Old Henning Motel sign
      • Yermo
        1. Original Del Taco Location
        2. Liberty Sculpture Park
        3. Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner & Peggy Sue’s Diner-Saur Park
        4. Jenny Rose Restaurant Sign
    5. Calico
      1. “California’s Silver Rush Ghost Town” (site map)
      2. Calico Town Hall
      3. Calico Bottle House
      4. Lucy Lane Museum
      5. Maggie Mine – “Glory Hole”
      6. Calico Odessa Railroad
      7. Gold Panning
      8. School House
    6. Barstow
      • Barstow – Rail Hub of the High Desert
        1. Skyline Drive-In Theater
        2. Casa del Desierto Harvey House – Barstow Route 66 Mother Road Museum & Western America Railroad Museum
        3. El Rancho Motel & Route 66 Motel
      • Helendale
        1. Watson’s Richfield Station
        2. Sage Brush Inn
      • Oro Grande
        1. Bottle Tree Farm
        2. Mojave River 1930 Bridge
        3. Emma Jean’s Holland Burger
    7. Victorville
      • California Route 66 Museum – “Key City of the High Desert”
        1. California Route 66 Museum
        2. Victorville Amtrak Station
        3. Old Victor Park
        4. New Corral Motel
      • Phelan
        1. Mormon Rocks
        2. Camp Cajon Monument
        3. Santa Fe & Salt Lake Trail Monument
        4. Pacific Crest Trail
    8. San Bernardino Foothills
      • San Bernardino
        1. Original McDonald’s Museum
        2. Cajon Blvd Historic District
        3. Will Rogers Mural
        4. Santa Fe Smokestack
        5. San Bernardino de Sena Estancia – ranch outpost of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
      • Rialto
        1. Wigwam Motel
        2. Chris’s Burgers
      • Fontana
        1. Bono’s Italian Restaurant & Sand & Sage Motel
Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Pier

12.0 Los Angeles El Norte

Values
    1. Independence & Personal Sovereignty
    2. Self-Sufficiency & Hard Work
    3. Resilience & Adaptability
    4. Pragmatic Conservatism
Themes
    • Outer Journey: Return with elixir
    • Inner Journey: Mastery of problem
    • Topic: New vision for the future
Events
    • Los Angeles Chinese massacre (1871)
    • Zoot suit riots (1943)
    • Watts riots (1965)
    • Los Angeles riots (1992)
    1. San Gabriel Valley
      1. Rancho Cucamonga – Cucamonga Service Station & Magic Lamp Inn
      2. Upland – Madonna & Buffalo Inn
      3. Claremont – Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden & School House
      4. San Dimas – Pinnacle Pete’s Steak House
      5. Glendora – 1940’s Gas Station
      6. Azusa – Foothill Drive-In Movie
      7. Monrovia – Aztec Hotel
      8. Arcadia – 1967 Van de Kamp’s Holland Dutch Bakery (Denny’s)
    2. Pasadena
      • Pasadena
        1. Saga Motor Motel
        2. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
        3. Pasadena City Hall
        4. Gamble House – American Arts and Crafts Architecture
        5. Colorado Street Bridge
      • South Pasadena
        1. Fair Oaks Pharmacy
        2. Rialto Theatre
      • Northeast Los Angeles
        1. Chicken Boy
    3. Los Angeles – Chinatown & Little Tokyo
      • Chinatown
        1. Chinatown Central Plaza & Chung King Road
        2. Far East Plaza
        3. Chinese American Museum
        4. Thien Hau Temple
      • Little Tokyo
        1. Japanese Village Plaza
        2. Japanese American National Museum
        3. Koyasan Buddhist Temple
        4. Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple
    4. Los Angeles – Downtown
      1. Olvera Street – El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument (former El Pueblo de Los Ángeles State Historic Park)
      2. Los Angeles City Hall & Los Angeles Union Station
      3. Bradbury Building & Grand Central Market
      4. Mormon Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial
      5. Walt Disney Concert Hall & The Broad
      6. US Bank Tower & Los Angeles Central Library
      7. Angels Flight & Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
      8. Clifton’s Republic & Original Western Terminus of US-66
    5. Los Angeles – Los Feliz & Little Armenia
      • Los Feliz
        1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House (no tours; used in Blade Runner)
        2. William Mulholland Memorial Fountain
        3. Vista Theater (one screen – film, not digital) & Los Feliz Theater
        4. Shakespeare Bridge Garden & Tiki-Ti
      • Little Armenia
        1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site) at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Barnsdall Art Park
        2. Fountain Theatre
        3. St. Garabed Armenian Church & Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church
        4. Church of Scientology of Los Angeles
    6. Los Angeles – Hollywood
      1. Hollywood Sign
      2. Hollywood Walk Of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard
      3. Chinese Theatre & Dolby Theatre
      4. El Capitan Theatre & Egyptian Theatre
      5. Paramount Pictures Studio
      6. Sunset Boulevard
      7. Capitol Records Building
      8. Hollywood Forever Cemetery
    7. Los Angeles – Melrose-Bel Air
      1. Los Angeles – Melrose
        • Melrose Avenue (Melrose Avenue Shopping District)
        • Angel Wings Wall & The Pink Wall
      2. Los Angeles – Miracle Mile
        • La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
        • Gilmore Adobe – L.A.’s Original Farmers Market & El Rey Theatre
        • Los Angeles County Museum of Art & Public Art “Urban Light”
      3. Beverly Hills (separate from L.A.)
        • Rodeo Drive (Rodeo Drive Walk Of Style) & Golden Triangle
        • Beverly Hills City Hall & Beverly Gardens Park
      4. Los Angeles – Westwood: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
      5. Los Angeles – Brentwood: The Getty & The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Mansion
      6. Los Angeles – Bel Air: Mulholland Drive
      7. Los Angeles – Sawtelle: Kuruvungna Village Springs & West Los Angeles Streetcar Depot
      8. Culver City: Sony Pictures Studios & Amazon MGM Studios
    8. Santa Monica & Beachfront
      • Santa Monica
        1. Route 66 End of the Trail (western terminus of Historic U.S. Route 66)
        2. Santa Monica Pier & Palisades Park
        3. Santa Monica State Beach & Pacific Ocean
      • Los Angeles – Venice
        1. Venice Muscle Beach
        2. Venice Canals
      • Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades
        1. Pacific Coast Highway
        2. Will Rogers State Beach
      • Malibu
        1. Malibu Lagoon State Beach – Malibu Pier
Porter Lakefront, Indiana Dunes National Park
Porter Lakefront, Indiana Dunes National Park

Epilogue – The Route 66 of Indiana

Indiana Dunes National Park & South Shore Line
    1. Hammond/Whiting – Horseshoe & BP Oil Refinery
    2. East Chicago – LakeShore Coal Company
    3. Gary & Gary Airport – Downtown & U.S. Steel
    4. Miller/Lake Station – Miller Woods
    5. Portage/Ogden Dunes – Portage Lakefront & West Beach
    6. Chesterton/Dune Park – Indiana Dunes State Park & Chellberg Farm
    7. Beverly Shores – 1933 Century of Progress Homes
    8. Michigan City – Mount Baldy & Pinhook Bog
Classic Car Show, Downtown Niles
Classic Car Show, Downtown Niles

Afterword – The Route 66 of Michigan

Pulaski Highway (Western US-12 Byway)
    1. Michiana
    2. Grand Beach
    3. New Buffalo
    4. Three Oaks
    5. Galien
    6. Dayton
    7. Buchanan
    8. Niles
lakeshore-2014a
Chicago Lakeshore

The Mother Road: Route 66

    1. Los Angeles, CA (population: 3.8 million; metro: 12.8 million)
    2. Chicago, IL (population: 2.7; peak-1950: 3.6 million; metro: 9.8 million)
    3. Saint Louis, MO (population: 282k; peak-1950: 857k; metro: 2.8 million)
    4. Oklahoma City, OK (population: 703k; metro: 1.4 million)
    5. Albuquerque, NM (population:  560k; metro: 1 million)
    6. Tulsa, OK (population: 412k; metro: 1 million)
    7. Amarillo, TX (population: 202k; metro: 270k)
    8. Springfield, MO (population: 170k; metro: 475k)
    9. Springfield, IL (population: 115k; metro: 206k)
    10. Flagstaff, AZ (population 77k; metro: 145k)

Old Route 66, heading from east to west:

    1. Chicago Route 66
    2. Midlands Illinois Route 66
    3. Land of Lincoln Route 66
    4. Saint Louis Route 66
    5. Ozarks Route 66
    6. Oklahoma Route 66
    7. Texas Route 66
    8. Santa Rosa-Santa Fe Route 66
    9. Southwest Tribes Route 66
    10. Arizona Route 66
    11. California Route 66
    12. US12 – The Route 66 of Michigan