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By 46yblock - 12 Years Ago
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Somewhere in CA, kind of close to Needles, we turned off the main highway to let the dogs out. This during a recent return trip from AZ. I got out of the car and was surprised to see this: 
The stretch of old road was unmarked except for the original brand shown.
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By The Master Cylinder - 12 Years Ago
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Mike, yeah there are sections still around in California, San Bernadeno and Fontana come to mind. I also seen it in Williams and Kingman, AZ when we went to the Grand Canyon.
Cool you found a section without knowing.
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By Y block Billy - 12 Years Ago
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I love those signs that say you are entering a national forrest there in Arizona, and all that you see along the sides of the road for miles are dirt and shrubs like in your picture.
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By 46yblock - 12 Years Ago
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A few years ago we took a stretch of 66 from Needles to Oatman, AZ. Wanted to go back this trip but couldnt make it. Oatman is a strange little town refusing to die, with wild burrows wandering all over the place, even into some of the stores. Going down roads like this always gets my imagination going. I look for rusting hulks left along side the road many decades past. Once I came upon one, out in the Oklahoma panhandle. There wasnt much of anything in sight except sage, and a late 20's-early 30's sedan. It was off the road about 100 feet buried halfway up the doors in sand. Probably left during the Dustbowl migration west. A store in Oatman, 2008: 
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By PWH42 - 12 Years Ago
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If you want to take a long trip back in time,do the whole 66 thing.About 10 years ago we ran the whole thing from Chicago to Santa Monica.Most of the states and a lot of businesses on the route have done a lot to promote the Mother Road.My wife found a cassette published by a man named Tom Snyder that led us to every one of the things you'd want to see,including that patch of highway in your picture. Fun trip!!!!!
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 12 Years Ago
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To keep this thread Y-Block, my friend, Bob Bayles, was a stock class racer back in the '70s with a blown '57. He actually got me started with my own blown car. After a hitch in the Navy, he moved from Illinois to California, hoping to break into the movie industry. There he met and married actress Ronne Troup. Who is she, you ask? She's the daughter of Bobby Troup, co-writer of the Route 66 theme song.
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By Talkwrench - 12 Years Ago
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This is Koool !.. Anyone else have pics? My wife and I have been discussing doing Route 66, couldn't afford it this time, we are just looking around Cali in July.. but next time we come....
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By PWH42 - 12 Years Ago
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John,
Your friend Bob Bayles didn't happen to be from Loda Illinois ,did he?
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By pegleg - 12 Years Ago
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There's still a lot of the old 66 highway in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. You run right along it on interstates 55, 70, 40. I was surprised, I thought it was all gone. not so. Barstow Ca, has 66 running right through town, most everthing there is from that era.
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 12 Years Ago
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Paul: He lived in Danville. John
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By oldcarmark - 12 Years Ago
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Here is a book I was given.Author did a photographic tour from Chicago to California.Doing the original Route 66 wherever it still existed.Lots of pics of all the places left behind.Many small towns are still there-barely.Most are like ghost towns.Interesting book.MBI publishing.
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By PWH42 - 12 Years Ago
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John,
Thanks.I grew up with a Bob Bayles about 40 miles from Danville.Maybe a relative.
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 12 Years Ago
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Paul: Bob would have been born in the early '50s, his Dad, also Bob, would have been born about 25 years before that. I don't know here Bob Jr grew up, it was 1970 when I met him, they were both in Danville then. Sr ran a filling station then, Jr worked for him.
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By GREENBIRD56 - 12 Years Ago
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If you read through this whole blog - its a riot.............. http://mgroute66.home.comcast.net/~mgroute66/
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By PWH42 - 12 Years Ago
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John,
The Bob I knew was a year ahead of me in grade school,so he would have born in 40 or 41.Probably some kin to your Bob ,since they lived so near each other and have a fairly uncommon last name.
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 12 Years Ago
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Paul: The Bob I know has no knowledge of any other Bob except he and his Dad. John
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By 55vickey - 12 Years Ago
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Found this in front of the Naked Pirate bar at Pirates Cove in Needles Ca.
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