I got this e-mail this afternoon from Bob Moore, the longtime executive editor of Route 66 Magazine:
As of the first of July I will no longer be affliated with Route 66 Magazine. Health issues and the opportunity to further my broadcast career have made this change necessary. It has been a great 16 years and over that time I have met many wonderful people along the Road. So please, if you have items for the magazine – news, stories, etc, please send them directly to Route 66 Magazine (go to www.route66magazine.com for contact information).Thanks to everyone for your support of the original Mother Road Journal and of my books. And I look forward to seeing some of you along the Road – I’ll always be HWYROVR on the license plate, so if you see me give a honk and maybe we can stop for coffee.
He will be missed. Moore was one of the early champions of Route 66 after it was decommissioned, and his guidebooks are still valuable in navigating down the Mother Road.
Moore has the Route 66 Radio Show and Don’t Start Me Talking on Bounceradio.net and KTOX 1340 AM in Needles, Calif.
I’m not sure what long-term implications Moore’s departure will have on Route 66 Magazine. Route 66 Magazine moved its offices to Florida a few months ago, but I thought it was important that Moore stuck around in the desert Southwest as a way to keep his finger on the road’s pulse and maintain the magazine’s credibility.
I’ll post any responses from the publication as I get them.
UPDATE 7/12/09: This is interesting. Sandi Taylor, co-publisher of the magazine along with her husband Paul, said in an e-mail Saturday that she was unaware about Moore stepping down. “Bob never said anything to us,” she wrote.
Nevertheless, Sandi Taylor said: “We have no intentions of discontinuing the magazine just because someone quits.”
That’s a shame. I just started subscribing to Route 66 Magazine. Thus far I’ve found it to be a wise “investment”. Hopefully it will continue putting out quality publications.
Bob Moore has been a friend and inspiration for many years. I can only wish him well in his future endeavors. Thanks for the memories, Bob. Travel well, my friend.
Wow.
You can taste the venom Sandi. Bob was a major part of Route 66 Magazine. I can’t imagine he would “quit” without notice or due cause. You might have thanked him for the years of work and wished him well with his health and in his future endevours. In any case, Route 66 Magazine will NOT be the same without him. Best wishes Bob!
See you on the Road!
Mary
Seems like a dick move for the guy to quit without saying anything to the publishers first. My first reaction would not be to wish him well, it would be to ask why he didn’t have the decency to communicate first.