… have you been nice to your Mother Road lately?
Meanwhile, the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune had this item in its Moments of Motherhood:
1926: U.S. Route 66, stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles, is formally opened. While novelist John Steinbeck would call it the “Mother Road” in his 1939 “The Grapes of Wrath,” actress wannabes from across the Midwest would come to view it more as the “highway out of here.”