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Start a word with "Get those kicks on..." & most People in the usa will immediately complete the word with "Route 66". Path 66 conjures up visions of a fun road trip across the United States, whether it was a bird's vision view from a snappy convertible or from a station wagon hauling a truck. There is fun to be had around every switch. For thousands, Path 66 was far from fun. Path 66 was the way to an improved life. The celebrated Path 66 was commissioned in 1926 as the first highway linking Chicago to LA, and though most people today would avoid two-lane highways and only fast-moving interstates, the interstate system was still generations away at the time. Two of the few things modern America has in common with the America of the 1920s when it comes to streets and technology is the need to transport goods to advertise and the desire to start to see the great lands that form america. Shortly before the Great Depression, Path 66 was the road that offered both. In 1985, the last original items of pavement forming Path 66 vanished from maps, so officially, Path 66 has come and absent. But in a feeling, Route 66 won't disappear. It still left an indelible impression on American culture, and since its creation almost a century before, Route 66 is becoming so much more than a road; it is currently a myth, tale, and fantasy. Called "the most marvelous road in every the world", it offered a vacation through the center of America in every her glory, and some of her inglorious days.
