This remarkable 26-minute documentary, “Route 66, The Main Street of America,” from 1988 offers glimpses of the Mother Road from nearly a quarter-century ago.
It’s dubbed in Dutch, but don’t let that stop you from watching. The interviewees all speak English, after all.
The film is even more notable because it has footage of Gladys Cutberth, Red Chaney, and Bobby Troup. Cutberth and her husband Jack ran the National U.S. 66 Association for many years from their home in Clinton, Okla. Chaney and his wife ran Red’s Giant Hamburg restaurant in Springfield, Mo. And Troup composed “Route 66.”
All of them are gone now, but I’m glad footage of them has surfaced.
It also has an interview with Angel Delgadillo of Seligman, Ariz., who seems little changed.
Great Find, Ron. I had not seen this one before.
To see Red. Gladys, Angel, and Bobby and hear the stories of their connections is priceless.
One of my observations is how the perception of Santa Monica Pier was the end of the Route back in 1988 even to these Dutch filmmakers and how vital it is to tourism economy even to this day, almost 25 years later.