Route 66 Texas - all 19 towns including 7 ghost towns!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2021
- Even though Texas is one of the biggest states, Route 66 only passes through a small part of it. But it is still very interesting with a lot of unusual sights to see. Amarillo is the only real city on the route and there are several ghost towns that just have a few remnants of existence left. I really enjoyed exploring Texas!
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Nice video, thank you! I was in the first Grade at the Lela Junction High School in 1945-46. My Dad moved us from Oregon, the place of His birth in 1915, to the place my mother was born on a share cropper Farm in Denton County, TX in 1915, for the duration of WW2. After WW2 my dad, a USN CPO, returned after his discharge, about 1946-47 and moved us back to Oregon and eventually back to San Diego where he and mother had married and where me and my twin brother were born in 1939. The Lela school had a principal that used a Razor strap for discipline! It left an impression on some! I currently live in Washington state. Ron PTL USA, USN 1960-64.
Awesome! Thanks so much for the comment!!
I remember traveling with my parents to California once in 1956 on Rte 66! Too bad it's all gone now. I'll NEVER forget that! 😢😊
I bet that was a heckuva trip!!
I live in Amarillo and I had no idea there were so many ghost towns in the area, awesome video
Yeah Texas is full of them, especially along the route. I would definitely enjoy going back again and taking a close look at those places!
My Dad Bill Swan made a lot of iconic fiberglass statues which are placed along Route 66 some of which are in a short Amazon ebook for only 14.99 called "The man behind the mufflerman ".
Yessss! Thank you!
Best route 66 video I've ever seen, don't talk much, on screen just shown year build, location and population, thanks.
I appreciate it! I'd rather not look at me too haha! Too many cool things out there on the Mother Road!
That is so awesome. I've been up and down
I-40 many many times over the years. I don't mind saying I'd love to do it many more. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I’m hoping to go back to this area and explore more thoroughly someday!
Watching some of the videos I hadn’t seen yet. Really enjoyed this one.
Oh wow I cringe at these old videos so I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊
I think the tire shop in Cars was inspired by a service center in Holbrook Az, I stopped at it once to have a tire replaced, way back in the 70s!
Awesome! 😊
WELL DONE. MUSIC WAS A GOOD FIT. BRAVO😊
Thank you!!
Interesting section Route66 thru Texas. Nice murals at of viedo. Had alot of old car displayed
Bright ly painted motel outside had very nice room. The lamp would would give one bit of scarey feeling in the dark of nite. Ha!
Thanks! Definitely an area I want to explore further!
Another great video!
Next, New Mexico! 😄
Appreciate it! Lots of open spaces and small towns in Texas - just what I like!
I took that same route back in 1968 when the roadside businesses and souvenir shops were still thriving. Such a memorable vacation!
I’m jealous you got to see it during a much more popular time!
Gloria, I grew up traveling 66, and drove it myself for the first time in 66. What a glorious drive it was back then! Interstates may be bigger & faster, but they have taken such a toll on the small, wonderful towns! I can remember when the Navajos actually herded their sheep across the highway in Arizona!
@@bettyallen6372The young do not know the history that is dying with those small towns. We worked harder back then, but our times off were so much more fun. Always something to be done in those little towns when they were still vibrant.
You mentioned the Cars reference with that gas station, I have always been told that Baxter Springs, Kansas inspired the name of the town in Cars, Radiator Springs
Yes that’s correct about Baxter Springs. There are lots of “Cars” inspired places all along the route.
Again as always...another great video!! I have been through a hand full of the town in Texas that you went through. I loved Sherman Texas and the old gas station that was in the movie Cars. By the way....did you happen to stop in Eric,Oklahoma on your way through??? They used to have a museum there for Roger Miller. It was a great museum and had alot of original stuffing there like the songs that he had written and of course all of his albums and alot of great memorabilia. It was an awesome museum for such a small town. Plus the singer She Wooley was his uncle and lived there as well. Unfortunately the museum closed down a few years ago. Keep up the great work John. We are gonna have to get together sometime and I can take you around Wabaunsee County soon and show you all the historic towns and buildings. I really think you would enjoy it and it would make for some great content for your channel. Plus get alot more info from some of the ol timers. Like I always say...keep up the great content John. Keep on keeping on!!
Thanks! I really need to do some more exploring around Texas. So much wide open space and rural places find! I did stop in Erick, but the museum was closed (Covid). Route 66 is full of great little finds like that!
My Mother and I went to California in March 1979. We didn't take Rt 66 and I don't remember what route we did take. But I remember on our way back home we stopped in Amarillo Texas for the night. Mother had gone into a motel to register and came back out and asked if I wanted to pay the extra $25.00 so we could have a room with a sitting room. I did and it was a nice place to spend the night. The man at the desk told Mother that a convention would be in town the next day and we were lucky to have been there that day. We got up early and left for home. I drove from Amarillo all the way to Prairie Village Ks in one day. Boy howdy was I ever tired. Now I'm doing good to drive 25 miles to buy groceries in Paola Ks and back home. Getting to old I guess, of course with the price of gas now I only go to Paola three times a month. Happy trails to you and God bless. P.S. Once even longer ago my Mother, brother younger sister and I did take a trip and it seems we did pass Tucmucari New Mexico. We stopped in Tucson Arizona and from there I drove us back home but not in one day.
Tucumcari was definitely one of the more memorable places along RT66 on my trip!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I asked my brother if he remembers if we had stopped in Tucumcari and he said he seems to remember that is where we got taken. We had stopped for gas and the men at the station convinced my Mother to buy new tires (they were already new) a new battery (also new) and I don't remember what else. I kept telling Mother that Dad had already replaced the tires and battery. I guess the men had gotten frustrated by us kids because Mother told us to go to the cafe next door and wait for her. Also on that trip our low beams on the headlights failed so we had to use the high beams and the speedometer failed. Still we had a great time and camped near the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, which was a great place to visit. We also visited Old Tucson which many old western movies and TV shows were filmed. I read many years later that the museum has been built up a lot since we visited back in the early 1970s. And Old Tucson was the victim of an arson caused by an employee who was fired (I believe). I know you like ghost towns etc but you might check those two attractions out. Happy trails to you and God bless.
Good vid matey I’m planning to go to Texas next year from the uk
Thanks! Are you going to do Route 66 or be in other places in Texas?
Great video
Thank you!
Try Geuda Springs, KS next time you are in the area.
I was 11 years old helping my brothers and sisters pick cotton and other families that went to to work picking cotton from Tio Grande Valley in Shamrock Texas . It was in November 22 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated. I'm going on 72 and still remember that date like if it was yesterday.
Route 66 is my passion & obsession. Lovin’ the trips you share.
Thought you might like to know, Jericho was purchased by a descendent of the original family. He and his wife are bringing it back to life. It’s still in progress. You can reach them for info at Polk St Nutrition in Amarillo.
If you haven’t yet, when in Amarillo, be sure to travel Historic 6th Street aka Route 66. Bob Lile at Lile’s Art Gallery creates art & jewelry from the paint chips off the cars at Cadillac Ranch. Stop & say, hi to Dora Meroney at Texas Ivy Antique’s & Route 66 Visitor’s Center. Be sure to get your picture taken at the ivy wall in front of the big white Route 66 shield. Dora posts all her visitor’s photos on Facebook. Lotsa great eateries & bars with live music on 6th too.
The Milburn-Price Museum & Dot’s Miniature Museum are Vega’s claim to fame & worth a look see. Both are free but, donations area always appreciated.
Good Mexican food in Vega. And the best margaritas for miles at Rooster’s. The Hickory Inn does a great breakfast.
Hope you get a chance to cruise thru again & enjoy more of the Mother Road.
Thank you for watching and thanks for the comment! I remember driving through Jericho, but it was a quick pass through. Would love to come back again and make a more extensive video of the area! Always love my Route 66 travels! Thanks again!
You've probably seen the old Route 66 documentary from that amazing Irish filmmaker. If not, watch it.
I've watching quite a bit of it - loved it!
Check out Jefferson TX.
You should have gone to meteor crater, it was really cool!
Did you go by the Helium plant, or is it gone now?
I don’t remember seeing it.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy the helium plant is still there, just south of 66 on the east side of Amarillo - closed in 96, but has a historical marker. It was outside of Amarillo, but the city has grown so much that it is in the city now. Between Loop 336 & Helium Blvd.
John,
Do you think the Second Amendment Man was originally a Muffler Man with the arms changed?
Gord
It seems like that would be the case!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy They cheated...🤔🤣
Making a whole new statue of that size had to be more expensive than modifying the arms.
I wonder how many Muffler Men were produced? Shades of Nebuchadnezzar's colossal image...!
Gord
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_muffler_men
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Thanks for that reference, John. I went over there and checked out all the details. There are, by my count, 274 worldwide still in service covering the following eight modified types:
Classic
Bunyan
Cowboy
Indian
Big Friend
Hybrid
Mutant
UniRoyal Gal
To give an idea of the massive size of these fiberglass mouldings, the Cowboy version in Livermore, CA has a 600 gallon hat. Most versions are 21' tall. Those modified with extra large cowboy hats are 25' tall. Some custom versions are only 14' tall.
The lumber jack holding an axe was actually the first one made for the Paul Bunyan Cafe in Flagstaff. It still stands today.
Just moving these things around to a new home costs a small fortune. Semi tractor trailer flatbed with extra wide load precautions.
This is the story of the origins...
"Bob (Bobbie Lee Pruit), who preferred real horses to those made of fiberglass, sold his business (including the Bunyan mold) to Steve Dashew in 1963. It was Steve who realized that only a limited number of businesses would want a lumberjack, and who had the idea to broaden the appeal of the giant statue by modifying it with different versions: the clean-shaven classic Muffler Man (who often held giant automobile mufflers, hence the name), the cowboy, the Indian, the astronaut.
Steve's company, International Fiberglass, turned out thousands of commercial statues in the 1960s and '70s, including hundreds of Muffler Men. International Fiberglass took a single statue mold created for a Cafe and parlayed it into a roadside industry."
Gord
again its the video where u crosses the roads .
no detail of places being explorer .
where is the video where u explore the things ?
Since you use your fingers (digits) to count, I am assuming the highest you can count to is ten...unless you use your toes then you can count to twenty. Coach, I have an extra abacus if you need it. 🧮
Ha! I count on my hands for the followers who might not be as mathematically gifted as you :)