I'm planning on small but important maintenance work on this website later tonight. So if you see anything hinky or strange late Thursday or Friday, you know the reason in advance. If all goes well, you shouldn't see anything different. In fact, this may make the site load faster, and other possible improvements. If the … Continue reading Programming note
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Kickstarter campaign begun for U.S. 40 book
Frank Brusca, a longtime researcher of U.S. 40, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help finish a book about the historic highway he's been working on for decades. This is a little off-topic, but Route 66 fans often are fans of other historic highways, including U.S. 40, aka the National Road. Brusca also has inspired … Continue reading Kickstarter campaign begun for U.S. 40 book
A Route 66 app that takes you there … with limits
Italian photographer Carlo Pinasco recently launched an application, "Image Route 66," for iPads, iTouches, and iPhones that contains more than 200 high-resolution images from a Route 66 road trip he took in May. With it, you can take a virtual trip down the Mother Road. But the most intriguing part of the app is each photograph … Continue reading A Route 66 app that takes you there … with limits
We’re back
Route 66 News returned to cyberspace today after about a two-day outage. I apologize for that, but it was due to a problem that wasn't foreseen. The website was chewing through truckloads of bandwidth and taxing servers. In essence, we were too popular. So HostGator suspended the account until we took action to correct that. A … Continue reading We’re back
Route 66 News now accepts your advertising
Here's the big news I've been hinting at -- Route 66 News is now equipped to take advertising from Route 66 businesses, authors, artists, or people who are plain enthusiastic about the Mother Road and/or this website. Readers may have noticed subtle changes after Route 66 News migrated to a new host and became a … Continue reading Route 66 News now accepts your advertising
Looks like we’re up
It appears the migration to a self-hosted site was mostly successful. You're looking at it now. The custom Route 66 News banner didn't make it over. But I've contacted WordPress.com and asked the folks there to retrieve it. I suspect everything will look 100% normal within a day or so. I'll be tinkering with a … Continue reading Looks like we’re up
Big move is imminent
I've been informed by the good folks at WordPress.com that Route 66 News will be migrated to a self-hosted site starting at 5 a.m. Central on Thursday. WordPress advised me not to count on posting anything for about 24 hours after that (although the down time probably won't be that long). In the interim, if … Continue reading Big move is imminent
Shimmering in the night
Here's a short-but-sweet new video of the great neon sign at the Supai Motel, along Route 66 in Seligman, Ariz. https://youtu.be/V7BistQ0xv4 The video was created by Andrew Wood, a professor at San Jose State University and a longtime roadie. He owns the Motel Americana website, and published "City Ubiquitous," in which Route 66 played a … Continue reading Shimmering in the night
On the road with a stuffed doll
Today, I received an email from a Spaniard taking in Route 66 with Stabri, a stuffed doll that travels "hand to hand" around the globe, documented by photos and video posted on the Internet. As of Sunday, Stabri and his companions were in Joplin, Mo. Here's another photo of Stabri at Ambler's Texaco Station in Dwight, … Continue reading On the road with a stuffed doll
New Route 66 photos site launched
Photographer Frank Gifford has launched a rt66pix.com site that not only is selling his images, but also merchandise that contains those images. The site contains more than 500 images, "and more images are being added." Gifford (who is no relation to the NFL Hall of Famer and broadcaster by the same name) said in a … Continue reading New Route 66 photos site launched