RT 66
Jul 13, 2020 16:25:22 #
Great photos especially #1. My Grandfather and Dad worked building Rt66 near Halltown, MO. They lived about 4 miles North of the highway. Walked there, worked 10 hours and walked home to farm chores
Jul 13, 2020 19:52:51 #
OneShot1
Loc: Wichita, KS, USA
Love the 1st one with the butter sky and all the road crack fill. Way cool!
Jul 13, 2020 20:24:11 #
Very nice photos, Rusty. Glad to see they're taring the cracks in the original pavement rather than resurfacing.
Jul 13, 2020 20:45:39 #
Jul 13, 2020 23:28:05 #
rusty nails wrote:
Take a ride on the original mother road
I've traveled the 66 many times...I have that first shot without the sun great photo.
I was on it one time pulling my trailer and ran out of road, it turned into gravel and quit at a farm. A few hundred yards from an old unused freeway entrance, so I cut across the knee high weeds and hot back on the 40.
Jul 14, 2020 01:02:00 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
Drove on parts of it in the 70's before all of I-40 was completed around some of the towns. Now when I head west, I detour onto some parts of it for a while, but if I want to make some miles, it's back on to I-40 & hammer down!
Jul 14, 2020 01:12:54 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
JRiepe wrote:
There are not so fond memories of all two lane highways before the interstates like getting behind a farmer on a tractor or getting behind a string of cars going 50mph in a 65mph zone and not being able to pass because of the hills and curves. Then there's going through all those small towns with 25mph and 30mph speed zones. And then putting up with that while traveling in the summer with no A/C. I'll stick with the comfortable modern automobile and the interstates.
I remember those days, too. Heading to Georgia from Pennsylvania was just a mess of little towns and speed traps run by the local police to augment their town's budget. After being stuck on a 2 lane road for a while, hitting a new piece of interstate was like going to heaven, at least for the 20 or 50 miles until the new highway stopped. Then it was back to puttering around behind a farmer in a beat up old pickup truck.
Jul 14, 2020 11:51:06 #
I was in AF, about 20 years old, driving to Calif. Saw nice looking girl hitch hiking out in the "boonies". Slammed on the brakes just when I saw a big brute carrying two suitcases come from behind a billboard. My Ford never peeled out so good. About 1955
Jul 27, 2020 16:54:59 #
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