| Introduction
Route 66 is often referred to as the Main Street of America, the Mother Road, or the Will Rogers Highway.
It starts from the Grand Park in Chicago, then it winds its way across
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexicao, Arizona, and California before it reaches its dead-end:
right at the crossing of Santa Monica Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, a beautiful town in suburban Los Angeles.
History
In the year 1926, Henry Ford decided to lower the price of cars, which changed the life of the Americans, and the whole world.
It reboomed people's desire for a better nation-wide highway system, which had almost faded away because of the convenient national
railroad network. People began building...[more] |
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