Route 66 Museum In Victorville California Part 1

(Best Syndication) On Saturday September 29th 2007 we traveled to the Victorville Route 66 Museum on D Street in Victorville. The museum is on the old highway which ran down D street and then up 7th street through the Cajon Pass and down the hill to the San Bernardino and Los Angeles basins.

The Mother Road, as it is sometimes referred to, ran from Chicago Illinois through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The end of this "Main Street of America" was initially Los Angeles, but later a leg was added to Santa Monica California which is on the Pacific Ocean.

Route 66 was part of the US Highway System. Although not completed, the route was established on November 11th 1926. The 2,448 mile highway was more like a road where businesses began to spring up all along the way. Motels and restaurants were created for the sole purpose of servicing the traveler.

The road went through Springfield Illinois, St Louis and Springfield Missouri, Tulsa Oklahoma, Amarillo Texas and San Bernardino California. There were many improvements throughout the route's lifespan, with alternate routes created.




During the depression the route was used for travel to the west coast. During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the migration supported the economies and communities along its path. In the 1950s it was unofficially renamed the Will Rogers Highway.




But nothing lasts forever. During the 50s and 60s the Interstate Highway system began to overlap with many of the routes. On June 27th 1985 the highway was officially removed from the US Highway system. Portions of the highway are being designated significant by the Department of Transportation's National Scenic Byway program.

At the Victorville Museum we spoke to Bruce Davis, who told us about the local portion of the route. He talked about Hulaville and the old drive-in theater in Victorville California.

This is that interview.

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[Route66Landrunner]

Pause the video at 1:20. The map that is shown at that point shows a town in Oklahoma along Route 66 named "Okemo". There is no town along the entire length of the Mother Road called Okemo. In fact, there is no town in the entire state of Oklahoma called Okemo. The closest sounding town name to that in Oklahoma would be "Okemah", which is on old US Highway 62 and the hometown to the legendary Woody Guthrie.

[Ammitt]

when I was 6 i came from my native arkansas over route 66...I still remember every mile. It was amazing even to a child as young as I was...now theres so little left

[stoatyboy]

got some old tools here hu? great interview technique.....

[BBDAWG26]

It burned down

[KrackaKillaKlan]

D street is full of crack-heads. Not the best part of 66

[shadowchucklez]

Just went to the classic car show sponsored by Route 66 museum in V.V..Thatz my zone...Thankz fer postin' and all y'all folkz come git your kicks on Route 66.{dOnT wOrRy,FoRrEsT pArK gOt RiPpeD oUt AnD tHe CiTy CoUnCiL iS "rEdEvElOpInG" oLd ToWn}:-}

[manoffire6580]

Springfield Missouri Birthplace of Route 66 - Officially recognized as the birthplace of Route 66, it was in Springfield on April 30, 1926, that officials first proposed the name of the new Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway. In 1938, Route 66 became the first completely paved transcontinental highway in America—the "Mother Road"—stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast.