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66John Steinbeck had a talent for seeing the poetry in the commonplace, so naturally he was the American bard who founded the legend of Route 66 as the great American highway, a legend that has outlived not only Steinbeck but even Route 66 itself.arriving in Los Angeles.It was replaced by bigger highways decades ago and decommissioned in the 1980s, but nostalgists insist it never died and never should.For many it symbolizes the spirit of American history.Their enthusiasm breathes life into an affectionate but not uncritical tribute, A Route 66 Companion (University of Texas Press), edited by David King Dunaway of the University of New Mexico.That novel became the chief literary ornament of the Depression and John Ford’s 1940 film version, with Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, carved the sorrows of the wretched Okies even deeper into the public imagination.Steinbeck eulogized Route 66 as the mother road, the route of a people in flight.RelatedRobert Fulford: Gore Vidal: The no.anti-American AmericanRobert Fulford: A Habsburg Empire state of mindAmericans have always had an enviable way of wrapping place names in glamour.In 1885 Walt Whitman grew lyrical about towns called Fairplay, Tombstone, Whiskey Flat and Squitch Gulch.t, in a poem called American Names celebrated Harrisburg, Spartanburg, Painted Post, Nantucket Light and of course Wounded Knee (he also gave a friendly nod to our own dear Medicine Hat).If Steinbeck created the Route 66 myth, Bobby Troup, a pianist, actor and sometime songwriter, greatly enlarged it.In 1946, Troup wrote a piece that’s listed in the catalogues as (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 though it often appears as just Route 66.A kind of musical travelogue Wedding Accessories For Sale , it’s lasted six decades.At first Nat Cole seemed to own it, having made it a hit, but over the years Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Diana Krall and many others have recorded it.I heard it at a tender age, 14, and fell in love with it and its subject.Get your kicks on Route 66.It listed places totally unknown to me but endowed them with magic.Somehow, Route 66 became the highway of my dreams.I could recite Kingman, Barstow and the rest.I never did travel the route, but decades later, when I finally visited that region, the place names welcomed me like old friends.Flying toward the Grand Canyon in a small plane, I asked the pilot to point out Kingman.Today Kingman, Ariz.and has a Route 66 Museum located in an old powerhouse on Andy Devine Avenue, named for the raspy-voiced Kingman boy who ended up acting in 400 movies, several directed by John Ford.Troup’s song made the road so famous that Route 66 became a television series and lasted from 1960 to 1964.rootless loner from the wrong side of town.itself now a cherished, carefully preserved cultural treasure.Over the years artists have done their best to enhance the cultural status of Route 66.in 1974, Stanley Marsh 3, heir to an oil fortune, hired a San Francisco collective, 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