A final meeting for public comment will be Monday at 5:30 p.m. at Clinton Middle School in west Tulsa about the Route 66 Master Plan: Red Fork Streetscape Improvements, according to Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers.
The project area includes Southwest Boulevard between 25th West Avenue and 27th West Avenue. […]
Citizens are welcome to comment on features such as enhanced sidewalks, trees, street lights, and crosswalks. […] The project is scheduled to bid this summer, with construction to begin in the fall.
Downtown Red Fork businesses are emerging in restored old buildings. This Route 66 project will continue to encourage historic preservation-based commercial revitalization.
— Alan Dunn, aka Mr. Zip66, saw his blog post about tracing the path taken in the classic 1969 motorcycle movie “Easy Rider” touted by About.com. Dunn deserves prominence for his post; his research was exemplary. The path seen in the movie included portions of Route 66 in California and Arizona.
— Read Claudia Heller’s latest in her ongoing series about Route 66 in California’s Mojave Desert. This one is about the town of Newberry Springs.
— Christian Chensvold, a writer for The Huffington Post, writes about “Route 66” composer Bobby Troup. The story includes a video of Troup performing his signature song.
— Warren Keating writes for Gather.com about his family’s experience at Meteor Crater off Route 66 in Arizona.
— Here’s an excerpt of the new book “Appetite for America” by Stephen Fried, published by the Wall Street Journal. The book details how Fred Harvey built his famed Harvey Houses and changed the West and United States transportation forever. Harvey’s railroad stops also inadvertently paved the way for Route 66.
— Steve Anchell is exhibiting his black-and-white photographs shot on Route 66 from 1981 to 1989 at the Emerald Art Center in Springfield, Ore., through March 27. Many of Anchell’s Route 66 photos can be seen here.
— Edwardsville, Ill., this week scheduled its Route 66 Festival for June 11-12. The festival took a one-year hiatus in favor of a Fall Fest in the city, but the latter event was poorly attended.
— Gordo at Handcolored66.com has just posted his first in a series of color photographs from the Mother Road on his site. They’re available as postcards, prints, etc.
— Here’s a brief update about the two Memphis teens who are bicycling east on a chunk of Route 66 to help raise funds to build wells in earthquake-stricken Haiti. The two were going through the Texas Panhandle this week. The boys’ Water Cycle site is here.
— A family of four is blogging nearly daily on One Journey At a Time about their trip to the West, including Route 66.
— Read about Jeff Burton, who plans on bicycling Route 66 in May from Santa Monica to his hometown of Stroud, Okla., to attend his 50th high-school reunion. He wants to raise money on the 1,500-mile trip to benefit Stroud High School girls athletics.