A Personal Tribute to "Route 66"

Paying triubte to the 1960-64 CBS Television series that symbolized the restlessness of youth at the start of the Kennedy administration.

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• 1960s
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[Onamkwah]

Thank you all for your kind comments. I put this up on YouTube almost three years ago and am astounded by how positive the comments have been and how much appreciation there is out there for a TV series that sparked my creative potential when I was just a child. And as always, my thanks to Martin Milner and George Maharis (whom I have never met), and the late Glenn Corbett, for letting me tag along in the Corvette all these years.

[edybeast]

Great job. I love the song, still makes me think of when driving used to be fun. And I still covet that great car.

[THOMASOAKMAN]

This show was made back when tv, was actually TV. and not that Reality TV BS. I watched the 4 seasons of this show on a dvd collection box, and thought that show was the best. and this is coming from a person whose 15. Me. Great Video man.

[JUMPMASTER263]

Bravo ! Thanks for this ! I wish we could return to that simple place and time that America used to be.

[THOMASOAKMAN]

@tobian84 Thanks bud! I'm always questioning my generations future, to be honest my generation scares me with how many people wouldn't be able to sit down and watch something like this, ya know? Talent and intelligent also tends to help, eh?

It was a fantastic series, ashame tv stars today would struggle to reproduce such a show. That's one of a few things that make me wish I was born back then, you got to see it all when it was actually cool.

Take care, Oakman.

[tobian84]

@THOMASOAKMAN:

I applaud your excellent taste. It's comments like these that make me think there might be hope for the future after all. (No, I am not being sarcastic!) Well, that and having two talented and intelligent young sons. :-)

Yes, it was a great series--speaking as one who was not yet 8 when it premiered, but who still, thanks to my parents' open-mindedness (and my elder sister's insistence) got to watch it during its original airing.

Thanks, Onamkwah!

[lynnsp]

I was 8. Glued to that show (and Twilight Zone) every Friday night. That car, road, theme song, and those stories spoke to me in a huge way even then. Interstate was also just then being built through our city. I vividly remember the construction.. Lit fire smudge pots at night -no battery powered construction blinkers like now. That show bridged the 50's into the space age. The producers could not appreciate the importance of what they were capturing on film there in all those cities.

[trailboyus66]

Last Friday KYTV Springfield Mo. did an awesome Route 66 Tribute. Oddly enough KY3 is an NBC station and not on Route 66; but properly on what was Route 60-166 KOLR 10 CBS also located in Springfield Mo. is on YY-Division St. which was on

Route 66 back in the 1920's until Route 66 was later moved to Kearney St..

This is an awesome tribute to The Mother Road.

[Iptorres]

Just brings back great memories. The song just makes me want to jump in my car with my wife and just go on a long road trip cross country.

[doggsector]

Awesome video, I remember when this was on and my mom used to watch it. I was 7 when the show when off in 1964. I only remember watching bits and pieces of it and it was not until recently that I regained an interest in the show. I would have loved to done what these guys did. Just get in the car and drive across the country looking for one adventure after another. I will have to watch the entire series.

[haweye79]

I was not a big fan of the show. I was more into shows like "man from Uncle".........I thought they drove a 56 vette in this show...What I wrong?? Nice vid.

[TheObladee]

Like you i was 9 years old when route 66 went on the air at 8:30 pm on friday nights. I never missed an episode. But I do wish That was buz at the end of the last episode.

Great job

[bluejayday2009]

Thank you for this great tribute.

The Route 66 TV series is a treasured piece of Americana.

The 'Vette, Todd, Buzz, Link, the different places and stories done on location

around the USA--is American television at its best. Catch episode THIN WHITE LINE, where Marty Milner shows what a terrific actor he really is! There is a lot

of good in this series. Peace.