JUKEBOX 66 ~

U.S. Route 66
Will Rogers Highway
Route information
Length:	2,451 mi (3,945 km)
Existed:	November 26, 1926 – June 27, 1985
Major intersections (In 1947)[1]
West end:	US 101 Alt. in Santa Monica, CA
Major junctions:	US 101 / US 99 / US 6 in Los Angeles, CA US 91 / US 395 in San Bernardino, CA US 89 from Ash Fork to Flagstaff, AZ US 85 in Albuquerque, NM US 60 / US 87 / US 287 in Amarillo, TX US-81 in El Reno, OK US-64 in Tulsa, OK US 71 from Joplin to Carthage, MO US 40 / US 50 / US 61 in St. Louis, MO US 51 in Normal, IL
East end:	US 41 / US 54 in Chicago, IL

(Wikipedia)

selections compiled by bob arnold

POSTCARD 9 ~

"Route 66"
photography by Andreas Feininger
Life Magazine
1955

A good friend just wrote after spending a day in Oklahoma on Route 66 ~
the possibility of having these same clouds from this grand photograph above.
This photograph always takes me back to the opening sequence of the outstanding film noir
 Out of the Past (1947)
directed by Jacques Tourneur
based on Daniel Mainwaring's novel Build My Gallows High
(revisions by James M. Cain) 
w/ Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and Jane Greer
up there in Bridgeport, California