Website of panoramic Route 66 images is updated

About a decade ago, David Schaubert embarked on long Route 66 trips and used his hobby of panoramic photography to document many places along the Mother Road.

Those photos were posted on his website, 6t6kix.com. In recent days, Schaubert updated the format of the images so they could be accessible to view to almost everyone with an internet connection.

He wrote in a changelog on his site:

2/4/18 – QuickTimeVR to HTML5 Conversion is Complete
All 450 (+/-) QTVR panoramas have been converted to the html5 format and uploaded to the server. Internal site relinking is also completed and uploaded. PROJECT IS COMPLETE!
The next phase is to add all the photos and panoramas that have been taken since QTVR became non-functional a few years ago.

2/4/18 – QuickTime VR (QTVR) is no longer needed to view content.
As part of the html5 conversion, all requirements for Apple QuickTime VR has been removed from the site. Some QuickTime badging will remain for a while but can be ignored. All that is required to view content now is a modern browser that incorporates html5 (basically anything updated in the last couple years).NOTE: there are 2 photo slide shows that require Adobe Flash. They will be converted soon.

You can start here in Illinois to view the hundreds of images, which are sorted by state in an east-to-west format.

Some of those hundreds of panoramic images taken in 2007 and 2008 already have gained historical value.

• The Pig Hip Restaurant museum in Broadwell, Illinois, before it burned down.
• The Route 66 bridge at Route 66 State Park near Eureka, Missouri, before the bridge closed and the deck was removed.
• John’s Modern Cabins near Newburg, Missouri, when one of the cabins still was standing.
• Wrink’s Market in Lebanon, Missouri, when the son of the late owner, Glenn Wrinkle, briefly reopened it.
• Laurel Kane at her Afton Station in Afton, Oklahoma, before her death.
• Seaba Station in Warwick, Oklahoma, when it still was an antique shop. It now is a motorcycle museum.

And a few images I’m linking to, simply because I really liked them:

• Inside of one of the wigwams at the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona.
• Image at the long-closed Painted Desert Trading Post in eastern Arizona.
• Image of the ghost town of Glenrio, New Mexico / Texas.
• Inside the Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, Texas.
• Inside the Blue Whale of Catoosa, Oklahoma.
• Inside the visitors center at the Totem Pole Park near Foyil, Oklahoma.
• Inside Eisler Bros. Store in Riverton, Kansas.

And I haven’t even commented about the photos Schaubert took along Route 66 during the late 1990s. Among the people he captured with his camera who now are deceased are Lucille Hamons, Juan Delgadillo, and Bob Waldmire.

If you have a few hours to kill, you’ll enjoy the photographic journey Schaubert has compiled.

(Screen-capture excerpt of panoramic view of Eisler Bros. Store in Riverton, Kansas, in 2007)