UPDATE 8/19/2011: Video links have been updated.
Brother, the company that makes label printers, took a film crew down Route 66 to get real people’s stories for what appears to be an ad campaign.
The main ad that puts them all together:
https://youtu.be/BIbEofkEKvw
Here’s a segment about Ron “Tattoo Man” Jones. This was shot at Afton Station on Route 66 in Afton, Okla. The segment winds up being quite poignant:
https://youtu.be/3wooBiR5BFE
And one of my favorites of the 14 videos is of Eugene, a retired English literature professor who lives in East St. Louis, Ill.:
https://youtu.be/AX3AANje4dA
More of the videos can be seen at Brotherlabel’s channel.
UPDATE 8/15/2011: Brother UK’s Facebook page has been running a series of Route 66 contests. And it posted this message there today:
For the last few weeks, we’ve been travelling down Route 66, looking at the many different cities that fall on the famous road. Later this week though, we’ll be giving you the chance to do the same, giving away a trip for 4 down the legendary Mother Road! Keep watching this space and all will soon be revealed…