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

Old Route 66: Finding America

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. Santa Fe Rockies 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

- Epilogue: The Route 66 of Indiana – US-12 Indiana Dunes
- Afterward: The Route 66 of Michigan – US-12 Pulaski Highway

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

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 – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Home & Monument To The Great Northern Migration
  8. Chinatown – Chinese American Museum of Chicago
7. Chicago – West Side
  1. West Loop – Union Station
  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

2.0 Midlands – Grand Prairie

Values

1. Pluralistic
2. Welcoming
3. Middle-class society
4. Political opinion is moderate
5. Government regulation is frowned upon

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 and 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. Gemini Giant
  2. Launching Pad Drive-In
  3. Town Square – Claire’s Corner Park
  4. Downtown
  5. Kankakee River – The Island City
  6. Island Park – New home for 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 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)
  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, Lincoln, Illinois (1953 replica of 1840 original)

3.0 Borderlanders – Land of Lincoln

Values – Lincoln Borderlanders

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

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)
    - 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’s Tomb
  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 Tomb State Historic Site
  8. Lincoln Home National Historic Site
5. Springfield – The Flower City (population: 113,000)
  1. Springfield Union Station
  2. Dana-Thomas House – Frank Lloyd Wright (1902)
  3. Springfield race riot of 1908
  4. Cozy Dog Drive-In
  5. Horseshoe sandwiches
  6. Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop
  7. Dew Chilli Parlor
  8. Route 66 Hotel
6. Litchfield & Mount Olive (Montgomery County & Macoupin County)
  1. Glenarm – Historic Sugar Creek Covered Bridge
  2. Auburn – Brick section of Route 66
  3. Virden – 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)
    - 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)
    1. Population: 7,000
    2. Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site
    3. Madonna of the Trail statue
    4. National Road Interpretive Center
  - East Saint Louis (St. Clair County)
    1. Population: 17,000 (peak population 1950: 82,000)
    2. Gateway Geyser
    3. Spivey Building
    4. Downtown East St. Louis Historic District

4.0 New France & Midlands – Saint Louis Route 66

New France Values

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

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. Metro Saint Louis
  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

5.0 Borderlanders – Ozarks

Values – Ozark Borderlanders

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

1. Pacific & 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 & Fanning
  - Cuba – Mural City (population: 3,000)
    1. Wagon Wheel Motel
    2. Phillips 66 Station
    3. Murals of Cuba
    4. Bob’s Gasoline Alley
  - Fanning – World’s Second Largest Rocking Chair
3. Rolla & Devils Elbow
  - Rolla (population: 20,000) – Totem Pole Trading Post
  - Devils Elbow
    1. Devils Elbow
    2. Hooker Cut
  - Hazelgreen – Gasconade River Bridge
4. Lebanon
  - Lebanon (population: 10,000)
    1. Munger Moss Motel
    2. Wrinks Market
  - Marshfield (population: 7,000) – Hubble Telescope Replica
5. Springfield, Missouri
  1. Population: 170,000
  2. Birthplace of Route 66
  3. Queen City of the Ozarks
  4. Rest Haven 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 – Kansas Route 66
  - Galena
    1. Cars on the Route/old Kan-O-Tex Service Station & Diner
    2. Howard Litch Memorial
    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

6.0 Native America – Oklahoma

Values – First Nations

(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

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
    - Gilcrease Museum
    - Creek Nation Council Oak Park
  2. Greenwood District
    - Black Wall Street – 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
    - Greenwood Rising Black Wall St. History Center
    - John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park
    - Mount Zion Baptist Church
    - Greenwood Cultural Center – Mabel B Little Heritage House Museum
    - Greenwood Centre (Former Gurley Hotel)
    - Former Tulsa Star
    - Former Stanford Hotel
  3. Blue Dome District
    - Blue Dome Building: (1924 filling station)
    - Hotel Indigo – Roof Sixty-Six Rooftop Bar
    - Andolini’s Pizzeria
    - JINYA Ramen Bar
    - Rabbit Hole Bar and Grill
    - Yokozuna
    - Mr. Kim’s | Korean
    - Astronaut Mural
  4. Tulsa Arts District
    - Cain’s Ballroom (former 1920s dance hall)
    - Tulsa Theater (1914)
    - Woody Guthrie Center & Guthrie Green
    - Bob Dylan Center
    - Tulsa Graffiti Wall & Red-brick warehouses
    - OKPOP Museum
    - Center of the Universe
    - Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
  5. Meadow Gold District
    - Meadow Gold Sign
    - There’s No Place Like Here Mural
    - Rosie The Riveter Giant
    - Buck Atom Space Cowboy
    - Stella Atom Space Cowgirl Statue
    - Cowboy Bob
    - El Rancho Grande
    - Howdy Burger 11th Street
  6. Tulsa East Side
    - Hank’s Hamburgers
    - Desert Hills Motel
    - Golden Driller Statue
    - Philbrook Museum of Art
    - Tulsa Air and Space Museum
    - The Outsiders House Museum
    - Council Oak Elementary School (former Lee School)
    - Lanier Elementary School (named for Confederate soldier Sidney Lanier)
  7. Tulsa West Side
    - Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza
    - Route 66 Historical Village – Red Fork Depot
    - Ollie’s Station Restaurant
  8. Bristow Train Depot
5. Lincoln County & Eastern Oklahoma County
  - Stroud
    1. Rock Cafe
    2. Skyliner Motel
  - Chandler
    1. Chandler Phillips 66 Station
    2. Museum of Pioneer History
  - Warwick & Luther
    1. Warwick – Seaba Filling Station
    2. Luther – Threatt Filling Station Route 66
  - Arcadia
    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 birthplace & Express Clydesdales
  2. El Reno – Twisters movie setting
  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
  8. Weatherford
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

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

1. Shamrock (Wheeler County)
  1. Conoco Tower Station & U-Drop Inn Cafe
  2. Western Motel
  3. Blarney Stone
  4. Pioneer West Museum
  5. Magnolia Gas Station
  6. Shamrock Water Tower
  7. Big Vern’s Steakhouse
  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 & Conway (Carson County)
  - Groom
    1. Leaning Tower (Gray County)
    2. Chalet Inn
    3. Groom Cross
    4. Stations Of The Cross
  - Conway
    1. Longhorn Trading Post (ruins)
    2. Six-Shooter Smokers
4. Amarillo (Potter County)
  1. Big Texan Steak Ranch
  2. Slug Bug Ranch
  3. Robert E. Lee Elementary School (renamed “Park Hills Elementary School”)
  4. Route 66 – Sixth Street Historic District
  5. Amarillo Helium Plant/Historic Marker
  6. 2nd Amendment Cowboy
  7. Cadillac Ranch
5. Palo Duro Canyon (Randall County)
  1. Palo Duro Canyon State Park
  2. TEXAS Outdoor Musical
  3. Randall County (named after Confederate Brigadier General Horace Randal)
6. Vega (Eastern Oldham County)
  1. Hickory Inn Cafe
  2. Roosters
7. Adrian (Western Oldham County)
  1. Midpoint Café
8. Tucumcari (Quay County, New Mexico)
  1. Blue Swallow Motel

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe

8.0 Santa Rosa-Santa Fe Route 66

1. Santa Rosa
  1. Blue Hole
  2. Silver Moon Cafe
2. Clines Corners – “Crossroads of New Mexico”
3. Villanueva – Historic Spanish Colonial Village
4. San Jose – Pecos River Valley Ford
5. Pecos National Historical Park
6. Santa Fe – Oldest state capital in the U.S.
  1. Santa Fe Plaza
  2. Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
  3. Palace of Governors and New Mexico History Museum
  4. Canyon Road Arts District
  5. Loretto Chapel
  6. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
7. Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway
8. Albuquerque
  1. “Duke City”
  2. Old Town
  3. Central Avenue
  4. KiMo Theater

9.0 Southwest Tribes Route 66

1. Petroglyph National Monument
  1. Ancestral Pueblo Art
2. Mesita
  1. Laguna Pueblo
  2. Owl Rock
3. Grants
  1. Acoma Pueblo
  2. Sky City
4. Gallup
  1. Zuni Reservation – “Heart of Indian Country”
5. Monument Valley
  1. Navajo Nation
  2. World War II Code Talkers
6. Petrified Forest National Park
  1. Painted Desert
7. Holbrook
  1. Hashknife Cowboys
  2. Powwows
8. Winslow
  1. Hopi Reservation

10.0 Arizona Route 66

1. Meteor City
  1. Barringer Crater
2. Two Guns
  1. Apache Death Cave
3. Flagstaff
  1. “City in the Pines”
4. Williams
  1. “Gateway to the Grand Canyon”
5. Grand Canyon National Park
6. Seligman
  1. “Birthplace of Historic Route 66”
7. Kingman
  1. “Turquoise Capital of the World”
8. Oatman
  1. Oatman Highway
  2. Wild Burros

11.0 California Route 66

1. Needles
  1. One of the hottest cities in the U.S.
  2. El Garces Hotel
  3. Topock Maze
  4. Topock-Needles Bridge
2. Goffs
  1. “Desert Tortoise Capital of the World”
3. Amboy
  1. Mojave National Preserve
  2. Roy’s Motel & Cafe
  3. Amboy Crater
4. Ludlow
  1. Mojave Trails National Monument
5. Newberry Springs
  1. Bagdad Café (1987 film)
6. Calico
  1. “California’s Silver Rush Ghost Town”
7. Barstow
  1. Rail Hub of the High Desert
8. Victorville
  1. “Key City of the High Desert”

12.0 Los Angeles Route 66

1. Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley
2. Los Angeles – East Side
3. Los Angeles – Chinatown
4. Los Angeles – Downtown
5. Los Angeles – Hollywood
6. Beverly Hills – 90210
7. Los Angeles – West Side
8. Santa Monica
  1. Route 66 End of the Trail (western terminus of Historic U.S. Route 66)
  2. Santa Monica Pier
  3. Pacific Ocean

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

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

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: