Route 66 Marathon overview September 8, 2011
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If you’re unfamiliar with the annual Route 66 Marathon in Tulsa, this video explains this year’s event quite well:
Check out the medals that will be awarded at the race, about the 1:30 mark.
Hot summer road trip September 8, 2011
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Photographer Danny Griffin recently completed a Route 66 trip — starting in Tucumcari, N.M., and going west — for a shoot with model Jessica Vaughn.
You’ll see Tucumcari’s Blue Swallow Motel and a few other remote locations in Arizona. And don’t worry — this particular video version with Vaugn is safe for work.
Music is John Mayer’s version of “Route 66,” from the “Cars” soundtrack.
UPDATE 9/9/2011: The video has been taken down, and a re-edited video has taken its place. Kevin and Nancy Mueller, owners of the Blue Swallow Motel, objected to the use of the brief motel footage (in both the SFW version above and one containing nudity that I didn’t link) and asked that it be removed. Griffin obliged.
Griffin said no nude photographs or video was ever taken at the motel. He also said this in an email:
I did not mention that there would be nudity in photographs and video outside his property. It isn’t something I would think to say since it had nothing to do with the activities at his motel.
Despite his disappointment in not being able to use the motel in the video, Griffin said he remains a fan of the Blue Swallow and Route 66 in general.
UPDATE 9/18/2011: A few days ago, Vaugn sent this autographed photo to Frank Kocevar of Historic Seligman Sundries. The photo was shot in front of his 1955 Chevrolet wagon and Invader trailer.
From eyesore to eyeful September 7, 2011
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Ed Klein at Route 66 World made a very good video about the recent repainting of an abandoned gas station in Tucumcari, N.M., into an old-time Phillips 66 station.
I’ve been told that the Tucumcari volunteers will repaint another building in the coming weeks.
How Stuff Works takes on Route 66 September 7, 2011
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The HowStuffWorks.com podcast discussed “6 Cool Facts about Route 66,” although the hosts acknowledged that many more cool things exist on the Mother Road than just a half-dozen.
Seligman restaurant is setting for German reality series September 7, 2011
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Westside Lilo’s Cafe in Seligman, Ariz., soon will switch its owners and operators with that of a German family for a reality television series, reported the Kingman Daily Miner.
The swap is part of a German TV show “Switched” that seeks out people with German roots in other countries and asks them to swap lives with a family in Germany who operate a similar business for two weeks. [...]
The Russells will meet the German family who will be taking their place a few days before they leave for Germany in order to show them the ropes. Then Lilo, Echeverria, another daughter and her son will fly to Germany to take over the German family’s restaurant near Stuttgart in southern Germany. TV crews will film both families as they work. [...]
Echeverria and her mom don’t expect any to run into too many snags cooking traditional German foods. Lilo’s is as well known for its bratwurst, schnitzel, roladen, sauerbraten and goulash as its American strawberry tortes, famous carrot cake, and signature cinnamon rolls.
The show will be broadcast in Germany sometime in 2012.
The Route 66 restaurant’s matriarch was born in Germany, married a U.S. Army soldier, and came to America in 1962. Westside Lilo’s opened in 1996.
Ink for a drink September 7, 2011
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One day about a year ago, a tattoo artist by the name of Dave Francis from Swindon, England, strolled into Historic Seligman Sundries in Seligman, Ariz.
He asked owner Frank Kocevar whether he could get a free malt if he put a new tattoo on his body, showing the Route 66 business.
On Sunday, Francis returned Seligman Sundries and said: “I’m here to collect on my malt.”
Kocevar says Francis did the tattoo himself.
Kocevar gave him the malt, and one to Francis’ wife, too.
One has to wonder whether Francis bartered his skin space for free drinks and meals at other places on the Mother Road.
(Photos courtesy of Seligman Sundries)
Hello from the garage September 7, 2011
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Here’s one of the wildest versions of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66″ I’ve heard, by Paul Bearer and The Hearsemen.
The band was based in the Oregon during the mid-1960s, and it sounds like it could liven up a party.
Almost need a scorecard September 7, 2011
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Here’s the latest video entry from “Route 66: A Road Trip through the Bible.” This one focuses on the second book of John.
The King of the Jukebox September 6, 2011
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Here’s a treat … blues bandleader Louis Jordan and his terrific arrangement of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66.”
Route 66 TV’s newest episode September 6, 2011
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Route 66 TV has posted its newest video. This one details the Chinese officials taking Cadillacs down the Mother Road, along with a report on new board game and a Route 66 Rendezvous preview.