Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66

Loved your YouTube series! Very well done! Somewhere on the Route...

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For me "King of the Road" is Roger Miller.
Day 4, headed west after a night stay in OKC, we were driving through "downtown" Erick, OK when I spied the not so well identified Roger Miller Museum and made a U turn. My daughter asked "do we really need another museum and who is Roger Miller"?
Now she knows... apologize for the snapshots.

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The lastest episode of Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66 has just been posted.

In this short episode we travel the remainder of Route 66 in Illinois till we reach the Mississippi River, stopping at a few places (one of them a hangout of Al Capone), and finally coming to the magnificent Chain of Rocks Bridge.

Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66, Episode 6

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I hope you enjoy.

Best,
-Tim
 
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Mmmmm, I always wished I'd been able to drive over the Chain of Rocks Bridge, but it closed when I was only six! One of these days I'll have to go and ride my bike over it. Carefully, though; some people have had their cars burgled while parked at either end of the bridge!


St. Louis has (or had) a lot of interesting bridges. One I just missed was the Macarthur Bridge which was double-decked; there were railroad tracks on the lower level and cars above. The road portion was closed in 1983 but only removed a few years ago. For 30+ years it was like a ghost bridge!
 
I guess I've been lucky, I've walked it a couple times, once parked on the Illinois side, and once parked on the Missouri side.

The Illinois side is more breathtaking IMHO. It truly is a mile long, and for the first 1/3 of a mile the bridge basically goes thru the woods of Chouteau Island, then you burst out of the woods at 50 feet above the water. My first time crossing was on a very windy day, and by the time you get to the middle of the river, high up in the air, a third of a mile from each side, it's a bit terrifying (if you're not comfortable at heights). Then you slowly descend to the west side of the Mississippi and level off when you hit Missouri.

I highly recommend the experience.

Best,
-Tim
 
That's very cool, thanks for sharing that. It looks like most of the motels he photographed were in the Southwest. I met a guy on my 2015 trip, in Tucumcari, who was doing that same thing with a large format camera. The night we met we were both staying at the Blue Swallow and I think he was shooting color.

Best,
-Tim
 
The lastest episode of Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66 has just been posted.

We head into Missouri. This episode also coincides with my first acquisition of a Leica M9, so just like in the 1960's when our family TV went from a black & white to "In Living Color", these Route 66 destinations got the full color treatment.

Also, the Wagon Wheel.

Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66, Episode 7

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I hope you enjoy.

Best,
-Tim
 
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The latest episode of Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66 has just been posted.

We travel from midway thru Oklahoma thru Texas and just touch a toe in New Mexico. Along the way we hear the stories of some great old abandoned roadsides and take in the beauty of the Conoco Tower Station in Shamrock Texas.

Gems & Hidden Histories on Route 66, Episode #9

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I hope you enjoy.

Best,
-Tim
 
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Thank you Rayt. When you say you don't venture beyond NM, are you coming from the Chicago direction or the Los Angeles direction?

I think a lot of folks, when they think of Route 66, they think of the Southwest, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. That's where we're venturing now.

Best,
-Tim
 
Timmyjoe said:
Thank you Rayt. When you say you don't venture beyond NM, are you coming from the Chicago direction or the Los Angeles direction?

I think a lot of folks, when they think of Route 66, they think of the Southwest, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. That's where we're venturing now.

Best,
-Tim
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I usually start out from San Francisco and there are days of distractions until I make it to Kingman where I officially start the RT66 drive. I either spend a few days in 29 Palms and then Amboy or Tonopah if coming from the north.
 
I'm not terribly clear on how YouTube works with the whole subscription thing. I subscribe to a number of different channels and what I've done with some success is bookmark one of the channels. Then whenever I pull up that channel, on the left hand side of the screen is a list of my "subscriptions" and next to any subscription, if there is a little dot, that means there is new content on that channel.

If you'd like to bookmark the channel page for Gems & Hidden Histories, you can do so at the link below:

Gems & Hidden Histories

Any other channels you subscribe to should be listed on the left hand side of that page.

Best,
-Tim
 
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