Folk singer Woody Guthrie‘s many links to Route 66 have been long documented.
However, this excellent clip by filmmaker Aric Allen shows that Los Angeles played a crucial role in Guthrie’s road to fame in 1937.
Amazingly, many of the places where Guthrie hung around in L.A. still exist, as this film shows.
(Image of Woody Guthrie by James Ratcliffe via Flickr)