Route 66 Ultimate Guide App: Zoom Meeting 7/24/2021
https://youtu.be/mQtCRN279m4 Join the California Historic Route 66 Association as we host Scott McCoy as he presents his phone app, Route 66 Ultimate Guide. Help support these videos by becoming a member today: https://route66ca.org/membership-…
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Route 66 – Update on the Damaged Bridges – Zoom Mtg 9/12/2020
Join the California Historic Route 66 Association as we host Brandon Biggs, Assistant Director-Planning and Operations Department of Public Works as he discusses the efforts to rebuild the damaged bridges along Route 66 in the Mojave Desert portion of Route 66. Help support these videos by becoming a member today: https://route66ca.org/membership-…
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CA Route 66 Designated a Scenic Byway!
The California Historic Route 66 Association and the Bureau of Land Management received word today from the US Department of Transportation that the section of California Route 66 between Needles and Barstow has been designated as a National Scenic Byway!
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Haunted Route 66!
Join us for this exciting Zoom meeting just days before Halloween on October 24, 2020!
Zoom on Out to Sun-Kissed California Route 66
We are all getting tired of being cooped up during the COVID-19 Pandemic. For our Route 66 enthusiast friends, the business owners along the highway, and those that are just learning what Route 66 is, the yearning – nay, CALLING – to be out on the open road is just too loud to ignore. Speaking
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COVID19 – A Long Road Ahead
We are facing a worldwide pandemic and crisis that has rarely been seen before, and which almost none of us have seen in our lifetimes. Overcoming it is not the question. The question facing Route 66 – and the world – is how we will respond afterward to get back to normal. All major travel
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Evanston Inn
The Evanston Inn, Pasadena’s only remaining wood-frame hotel from the 19th century, is an important reminder of the city’s historic economic development. Smaller and homier than large luxury hotels like the Raymond (1901) and Hotel Green (1899), the Evanston Inn provided a quiet retreat for its many winter visitors. The Inn opened in 1897, several years before many of Pasadena’s
Bekins Storage Company Roof Sign
The Bekins Storage Co. Roof Sign is locally significant for its associations with the historic context, “Influences of the Automobile on Other Businesses (1924-1944),” under Criterion A in the area of Commercial Advertising and Criterion C in the area of Commercial Signage as a locally significant example of early large roof signs and projecting signs in Pasadena
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Eagle Rock Branch Library
The Eagle Rock Branch Library is significant for its cultural role in the development of the Eagle Rock community, as part of the nation’s largest branch library system, and as a notable example of public architecture, designed by architects Henry C. Newton and Robert D. Murray. The library had its beginning in 1914, when a group of
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