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| This sleepy Arizona gas station on Route 66 provides little hint of the appeal that this historic highway once held for the American driving public. Constructed in the 1920s as part of the government’s programme of national highway development, Route 66 came to symbolize the mobility and spirit of independence that the age of the motor car brought to America. The route connected the urban metropolises of Chicago and Los Angeles with small town America, taking a diagonal course across the country through rural Missouri and Oklahoma to New Mexico and Arizona. American novelist John Steinbeck called Route 66 the “Mother Road” because many people fleeing the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma used it to migrate to California. Route 66 had become part of American cultural lore by the 1960s, when it was the subject of a TV series. Today many people travel Route 66 for a nostalgia trip. | ||||||
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