¡Colores!; 1201; Route 66 in New Mexico (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

SRT Captions File Generated by MXFplus >> MAJOR CORPORATE FUNDING FOR LIKE THE PROUD HIGHWAY, PHILLIP'S 66 HAS BEEN SERVING

YEARS. TO PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF >> ROUTE 66 IN NEW MEXICO, A SPECIAL COLORES PRESENTATION. ♪ ♪ >> THERE WAS ONCE A DREAM FOR ROAD FROM THE HEARTLAND TO THE

SEA. IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IS THE LAND OF ♪ ♪ "IF YOU EVER HAD TO MOTOR ♪ TAKE THE HIGHWAY THAT IS THE ♪ GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66. OR 2,000 MILES ALL THE WAY.... ♪ GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66. ♪ WON'T YOU GET HIP TO THIS KINDLY TIP; WHEN YOU MAKE THAT ♪ GET YOUR KICKS, GET YOUR

KICKS, GET YOUR KICKS, GET YOUR KICKS, GET YOUR KICKS, ON ROUTE 66, ROUTE 66. ♪ ♪ 66...... >> WHEN YOU ROLLED INTO NEW THAT BRILLIANT BLUE SKY, THOSE A WHOLE NEW RHYTHM ON THE BLACKTOP. YOU WANTED A TASTE OF SPICY FOOD THE ARCHITECTURE, THE LANGUAGE,

IT REFUELLED YOUR SPIRIT. >> BUT NEW MEXICO TO ME IS ONE OF THE BEST, BEST AREAS OF ROUTE 66. AND THE SIMPLE REASON IS BECAUSE THE WIDE OPEN SPACE. YOU CAN SEE ROUTE 66 FOR MILES. >> THIS HIGHWAY HAS ALWAYS LED SPACE OF NEW MEXICO, THAT WE HAVE ROOM TO REMEMBER THAT IT IS THE SIMPLE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE ♪ ♪ (ROCK AND ROLL) >> MY DAD LET ME DRIVE, HE

HIGHWAY, SO IT WAS OLD HIGHWAY 66 THAT I WAS ON AND LOVED IT. ♪ ♪ >> MORE IMPORTANTLY IS MAYBE ROUTE 66 IS NOT, MORE THAN >> I AM A RETIRED SOCIAL WORK PROFESSOR, AND THEN I STARTED TO ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER AND I KEPT ENCROACHING ON MY >> SPANNING EIGHT STATES, ROUTE IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THAT NEW MEXICO IS PART OF THIS MAJESTIC ROADWAY. WAS A LOOSE CONNECTION OF RUTTED

WAGON RUTS HELD TOGETHER WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS OF NEW MEXICO'S GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION. >> WASN'T ALL THAT EASY TO OLD MODEL A FORD AND NATURALLY THAT CAR THERE, THEY ARE NOT DOWN. AND THE ROAD, A LOT OF TIMES, WAS WASH BOARD, JUST SHAKE THOSE >> IN NEW MEXICO, AUTO TRAVEL ARROYOS THAT WHEN THEY DIDN'T THERE WERE MESAS, MOUNTAINS, TIRES RIGHT OFF THE RIM. IF YOU DIDN'T GET STUCK IN THE BUILDING ROADS BECAME A NATIONAL

ITSELF IN A UNIQUE POSITION. BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH FEDERAL LAND SPANNING THE STATE, THE NATIONALLY, AN IDEA BEGAN TO WHAT IF THERE WAS ONE ROAD THAT THE FATHER OF ROUTE 66 IS AN OKLAHOMA STATE HIGHWAY AVERY PROMPTED THE COMMITTEE FEDERAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM, TO CONSIDER A ROAD ALONG THE 35TH AND THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, THIS NEW AND THAT IS WHERE THE RAILROAD THERE WERE MANY GREAT REASONS TO

WAS EVEN, THE TOWNS HAD ALREADY AND TRADING CENTERS. CHARACTER ALL ITS OWN. HERE IS WHERE YOU SEE HOW, AS I MEXICO, HONORED THE LAND. IT COULDN'T, BECAUSE OF TECHNOLOGY, PLOW RIGHT THROUGH THE STONE AND THE BUTTES AND CONTOURS OF THE LAND, FOLLOWED THE LAND. LIKE ROUTE 66 HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUT THROUGH THE ACOMA LAND AND LOOK AT ROUTE 66 TODAY, SNAKING THROUGH THE LAND, AND YOU LOOK AT HIGHWAY 40, THE INTERSTATE, LIKE A DELINQUENT FULLBACK, JUST

RUNS RIGHT THROUGH EVERYTHING. YOU DON'T GO BY OLD STONE CHURCHES OR VILLAGES OR HORNOS BREAD. ECOLOGY LAND AS YOU ARE HERE ON >> WHEN YOU TRAVELED ROUTE 66 THE HIGHWAY. YOU BLAZED THROUGH THE YOURSELF TO A WARM BED AND A HOT AND HIS STRING OF HOUSES ALONG >> BACK IN THOSE DAYS, YOU AND THEY WOULD BE HUMMING AND THAT WOULD LULL YOU TO SLEEP. >> ON ROUTE 66 IN NEW MEXICO,

ROSA SPRING TO LIFE AS TENT >> MOST OF THE TENTS WERE FOR WE HAD A NUMBER OF OUTLAWS COME THROUGH THE AREA SUCH AS BLACK JACK KETCHUM, BILLY THE KID, A FEW OF THAT ILK AND SOME OF THE SETTLERS, MAYBE EVEN IN MY OWN FAMILY, HAD MOVED WEST TO SORT OF RUN AWAY FROM THEIR REPUTATIONS AND SETTLE HERE AND YET THEY WERE STILL MAYBE A LITTLE TRIGGER HAPPY AT TIMES. >> A NEW INDUSTRY, ONE THAT WAS

REACTED TO THE ROAD'S IN 1927, NEW MEXICO HAD OUT-OF-STATE LICENSE PLATES TRAVELING ACROSS ITS HIGHWAYS THAT MEANT A WINDFALL OF 16 MILLION-DOLLARS FOR A STATE >> THIS ASPHALT RIBBON IS IF YOU STOP AND THINK ABOUT THE 1920'S AND 30'S, IT WAS A TIME WHEN THE AUTOMOBILE WAS OFFERING THE PROMISE FOR MOBILITY, MOBILITY OF JOBS, OF LIVING LOCATIONS, AND EVEN OF SEEING INDIVIDUALIZED WAY THAN PEOPLE HAD PREVIOUSLY ON THE RAILROADS.

SO, THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE THE AUTOMOBILE BUT IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THERE HAD TO BE THE ROADS. >> IN THE 20'S AND 30'S, ROUTE SEPARATE AND QUICK. FROM GLEN RIO AT THE TEXAS JON AND TUCUMCARI, BUT RIGHT AFTER SANTA ROSA, IT TOOK A RIGHT TURN AND VEERED UP NEAR LAS VEGAS AND RIGHT THROUGH THE IT MADE A QUICK HOP FROM THE TOOK A TURN ON TO THE PATH OF THE CONQUISTADORS, THE EL CAMINO RAEL. >> IN SOME WAYS, NEW MEXICO HAS UP THE CAMINO RAEL, THE COMMERCE

DOWN THE SANTA FE TRAIL, AND THEN FINALLY, THE AUTOMOBILE TRAVELER TRAVELING EAST AND WEST ACROSS OLD ROUTE 66. >> WHEN ROUTE 66 LEFT SANTA FE HILL. >> IT USED TO TAKE YOU QUITE A THE REST OF THE PASSENGERS WOULD TO GET IT TO STOP IN CASE YOU HAD TO, AND GOING UP, OF COURSE, ENGINES DIDN'T HAVE OIL PUMPS THE GAS TANK WAS UP ABOVE THE DASH BOARD GRAVITY FED TO THE CARBURETOR AND IF YOU DIDN'T GO GO BACK AND BURN THE CAR.

THAT IS WHAT TOOK SO MUCH TIME, IN REVERSE, YOU KNOW, AND SO IT JUST TAKES A LITTLE WHILE. >> FROM LA BAJADA HILL ROUTE 66 ONLY CONCRETE BRIDGE ACROSS THE FROM THERE IT MOVED ON TO CUBERO, THEN THROUGH GALLUP TO THE STATE LINE. IF YOU HURRIED, YOU MIGHT MAKE IT ACROSS THE STATE IN FOUR OR >> BUT THE FORMER MAYOR OF GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO HAD "BYPASS SANTA FE," THEY SAID, "AND HAVE THE ROUTE HEAD

ECONOMIC CENTER OF NEW MEXICO." IN AN ACT OF POLITICAL REVENGE STRAIGHTEN ROUTE 66 WHEN HE LOST HIS BID FOR REELECTION BY WHO COST HIM HIS SECOND TERM. IT WOULD TAKE ALMOST 10 YEARS FOR HANNETT TO SEE HIS VISION IN 1977, THE NEW ALIGNMENT NOW ALBUQUERQUE LOST ONE ROUTE 66 BUT IT GAINED ANOTHER. ALL ALONG FOURTH STREET, YOU 66 WITH CAMPING COURTS, GAS STATIONS, AND THE RED BALL CAFE. >> I THINK THAT CHILI AND BEANS YOU KNEW THEM FROM WAY BACK, YOU

KNOW. GAVE ME A DIME FOR A TIP THAT WAS GREAT. >> IF YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF AT WHERE ROUTE 66 ACTUALLY CROSSES ITSELF. THE OLD ALIGNMENT ALONG FOURTH CAPITALIZE ON THE PROSPEROUS 20'S, DUST STORMS RAVAGED THE A GREAT MIGRATION OF DESPERATE AND SOMETIMES WALKED THROUGH NEW MEXICO ON THEIR WAY TO JOHN STEINBECK WOULD LATER CALL >> IN 1939, MY FATHER, CLAUDE

SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE HAVING HARD TIMES AS WELL WHO GAS, WHATEVER THE CASE MIGHT BE. AND, HE WOULD BRING THEM TO THE COURTHOUSE TO THE SHERIFF'S RESIDENCE, AND MY MOTHER WOULD TO HELP THEM GET ALONG THE WAY >> SOME OF THE BIGGEST INVOLVED THE WHOLE TOWN WOULD BE SCHOOL, THEY WOULD PUT THEM UP AND GOT THEM SOMETHING TO DRINK AND SOMETHING TO EAT AND TOLD THEM TO LAY DOWN AND REST UNTIL WE GOT THE ROADS OPEN TO GO AGAIN. IT WASN'T JUST ONE PERSON DEAL, IT WAS A TOWN WORKING TOGETHER TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.

AGAIN. IT WAS A TOWN WORKING TOGETHER TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. >> BECAUSE NEW MEXICO WAS A IMPACT IN PLACES LIKE WELL-TO-DO TOURISTS SEEKING THE LIKE GALLUP BY OVER 1 MILLION ♪ ♪

>> WHEN MAYOR CLYDE TINGLEY WAS DRAMATIC DECISION THAT WOULD ECONOMY. APPEARING IN AS FAR AWAY AS THE DEPARTMENT SENT OUT 20,000 ROAD MAPS, BROCHURES, AND POST 80 MILLION-DOLLARS ANNUALLY IN >> WALKING DOWN THE ROAD AND OURSELVES THAT THIS IS THE 1937 CAME WEST FROM ALBUQUERQUE. IT IS 21 FEET WIDE, THE STANDARD

WIDTH FOR ROADS IN THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM IN THE 1930'S. ARTHUR HANNETT, AND CLYDE TINGLEY'S DREAM OF HAVING AN EAST/WEST ROADWAY ACROSS NEW MEXICO, THAT WAS AS DIRECT AND EFFICIENT AS IT COULD BE. WITH THE SURFACING OF THIS ROAD TO SAY, NOW, YOU CAN DRIVE ROUTE 66 ALL YEAR IN HIGH GEAR. >> BY LATE 1937, THE ROAD WAS THEN SOMETHING TRULY EXCITING HAPPENED. A CULTURAL REVOLUTION BEGAN TO

THEY RISKED EVERY DIME THEY HAD AND CREATED GAS STATIONS, TOURIST COURTS, RESTAURANTS AND GARAGES. >> IN THE EARLY DAYS WHEN THE WAS RELATIVELY SMALL, MEASURED SOMETIMES IN THE HUNDREDS, IT TOOK A GREAT DEAL OF OPTIMISM TO THE ROAD. SUPPLEMENT YOUR BUSINESS, AND TO >> SOME OF THOSE EARLY OWNED A GROCERY STORE, GARAGE, HE WAS CALLED OUT ON THIS

TOWED THE FELLOWS CAR INTO HIS SO, BUD PROCEEDED TO PUT THE FAN SAID, "HOW MUCH DO I OWE YOU?" OUTRAGEOUS, HIGHWAY ROBBERY," OR SOMETHING. ARE ON YOUR OWN, PARTNER." >> AS THE NEEDS OF TRAVELERS ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD. DINNER. COTTAGE COURTS WERE NEXT WITH SHEETS ON THE BED. THEN CAME WHAT WE KNOW TODAY AS THE MODERN MOTOR INN AND HIGHWAY

>> AS THE NATION PLUNGED INTO LOST MOST OF ITS TRAVELERS DUE BUT IT SERVED AN EVEN MORE FOR GI'S TRAVELING TO THEIR NEXT ASSIGNMENT. >> YOU COULD HITCHHIKE, YOU COUNTRY AND PUT YOUR THUMB OUT >> IT IS THE SISTER AND BROTHER WAR, AND WE WERE VERY CLOSE, AND IT WAS VERY FRIGHTENING SO IF I KNEW HE WAS ON HIGHWAY 66, I

FELT LIKE HE WAS SAFE. >> DURING THE WAR, ROUTE 66 BEFORE. MAINTAINING THE ROUTE WAS LIMITS. TO BE THE SAVING GRACE IN A COMMERCIAL TRUCKS INCREASED, TRADERS TOOK THEIR WARES TO NEW SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN ART BEGAN. ALBUQUERQUE MOTELS WERE FULL OF IN GALLUP, COURTS FILLED WITH WHEN OUR BOYS CAME HOME, A RELIEF.

THE WAR WAS OVER. DECADES OF TRAGEDY AND SACRIFICE THE OPEN ROAD. GI'S WHO HITCHED A RIDE ON THE BACK TO SHOW THEIR FAMILIES THE >> I THINK IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE ON ROUTE 66, THAT IT WAS A TIME RELEASE REALLY CAME IN THE MOBILITY PEOPLE FOUND ON THE OPEN ROAD. ♪ ♪ (BEACH BOYS SINGING) "ROUND, ROUND, I GET AROUND, I GET AROUND. GET AROUND, ROUND I GET AROUND." >> IMAGINE IT, TWO WEEKS OF

OF A KEY, AND THE ROAR OF AN PACIFIC OCEAN, THE SANDIAS. RED ROCKS, THE RIO GRANDE. THE LANDS OF MYTHS AND LEGENDS WERE CALLING FROM THEIR FAMILIAR STRETCH OF HIGHWAY. ♪ ♪ (BEACH BOYS SINGING) "GET AROUND, GET AROUND, ROUND, GET AROUND, ROUND ROUND." >> FOR ME, ROUTE 66 MEANS IT REMAINS WHEN PEOPLE DIDN'T SUN OR GUZZLED COLD BEER OR GRAPE NEHI OR COCA COLA. WE WEREN'T INTERESTED IN DIET NOBODY KNEW ABOUT CHOLESTEROL. IT'S FAMILY VALUES WITHOUT HAVING TO USE THAT WORN OUT PHRASE BECAUSE IT WAS RIGHT

THERE. PEOPLE SET UP SELLING WARES, EXPOSING THEIR CULTURE TO PEOPLE THIS ROAD WAS THE MAIN STREET OF >> THE ROAD IS A PLACE OF THERE IS THAT DREAM AND HOPE THERE IS SOME PLACE I CAN FIND PLACE FOR ME AT THE RIGHT TIME, THEN I CAN MOVE ON AND CHANGE MY THE NEW PEOPLE THAT I COME INTO >> FROM THE BREATHTAKING ROUTE 66 BECAME THE PRINCIPAL

AMERICANS CAME TO KNOW NEW ♪ ♪ (BEACH BOYS SINGING) ROUND ROUND, GET AROUND, I GET >> IN THE 1950'S, 70% OF WHAT IS MORE, ROUTE 66 FOSTERED AT NO OTHER TIME IN AMERICA'S EACH TOWN, EACH CULTURE, WAS A PART OF THE ROUTE, IMPOSSIBLE TO BYPASS. >> FOR EXCITEMENT, YOU CAN'T (COUNTRY MUSIC) >> HOME OF THE FAMOUS TEEPEE MOTEL, OH, AND DANCING ALMOST EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK. >> "TUCUMCARI TONIGHT" SIGNS

MAJOR ADVERTISING TECHNIQUES. THAT SIGN HAS BEEN SCATTERED ALL OVER THE AREA IN OKLAHOMA, KANSAS, DOWN INTO TEXAS, IT IS HERE, THERE AND YONDER AND JUST THE STARKNESS OF TUCUMCARI AND, SO, THEY KEEP FOLLOWING THE SIGNS AND EVENTUALLY IT SAYS >> REMEMBER THOSE BILLBOARDS IT MAY BE GONE NOW, BUT YOU CAN GET A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST AT SO, WE ARE HAVING ALL THESE NEW TO FIND THE OLD SITES THAT THEY

ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SANTA 66, IS ONE OF OUR VITAL THAT SAME RESOURCE, THAT SAME THROUGH LAGUNA AND SANTA ROSA AND BROUGHT THE RAILROAD THROUGH POPULAR SITE BEING OUR BLUE THE BLUE HOLE PRODUCES 3,000 DIVING SPOTS IN THE U.S. IT IS ONE OF THE TOP 10 BY ♪ ♪ >> DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE WAS A

(JAZZ RHYTHM) >> "IF YOU EVER PLAN TO MOTOR THE HIGHWAY THAT IS THE BEST. GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66. ♪ ♪ >> ALBUQUERQUE WAS A STOP OFF YOU HAD ARRIVED SOMEWHERE. PANORAMA OF THIS WONDERFUL RIO AND ALONG CENTRAL AVENUE, THERE NIGHT OFF, GET A GOOD MEAL, SOME MASH POTATOES AND A GREAT MEAT UP AND KICKBACK; GET YOUR CAR SERVICED, MAKE SURE YOU HAD THE FLAT TIRES ON THE DESERT, THE NIGHT LIFE HERE JUST HUMMED

OF THE STATE COMMUNITIES. IT ALL ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF ERUPTS OUT INTO THE DESERT. "WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE, WHEN CALIFORNIA TRIP, GET YOUR KICKS >> CHECK OUT GRANTS, ONCE THE DON'T FORGET TO VISIT THE >> RIPLEY HAD IN THE COLUMN, >> AND THE COLORS OF GALLUP RUN >> YOU KNOW, GALLUP LIGHTS UP SOUTHWEST.

BECAUSE, WE PROVIDE COAL TO PHOENIX, TO TUCSON, TO LOS OUR COAL KEEPS THEIR LIGHTS ON >> TO EXPERIENCE THE OLD ROUTE BUDVILLE OR CUBERO. THESE TOWNS STILL SHIMMER WITH TAKE ENDEE, THESE PEOPLE REFUSE TO BE LEFT OUT OF THE ECONOMIC WHEN THE ROAD CHANGED LOCATION YEARS, THE ENTIRE TOWN MOVED WITH IT. >> MY GRANDDAD AND THEM HAD A SELL AT A STORE, FLOUR, GET RAINED THAT NIGHT AND RAINED

SEVERAL TIMES AND WHAT THIS GUY HE WOULD PULL THE TOURISTS OUT >> SINCE 1926, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOULDERS OF THIS ROAD TRYING TO AND THEY ARE STILL DOING IT NIGHT, OR AN ENCHILADA PLATTER PEEK AT THE SNAKE PIT OR A ENTREPRENEURS THAT ARE STILL OUT HERE, SOME OF THEM ORIGINALS, SOME OF THEM NEWCOMERS WHO HAVE TAKEN THE ORIGINAL'S PLACE THAT >> WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO AND, MY FRIEND ACROSS THE STREET THEM OVER EVERY DAY AND THEN

BECAUSE CARS DRAW CARS, I HAD TO THINK OF EVERY LITTLE TRICK I COULD TO BRING BUSINESS TO THE >> REMEMBER THE BUCKAROO OR THE DIFFERENT WITH ITS FLAT ROOFS REGIONAL STYLE. IMAGINE SITTING IN THE COURTYARD EXCHANGING TALES OF THE ROAD IT WAS AS IF THIS COMMUNITY OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS MUCH LIKE THE PUEBLO PEOPLE IN A PLAZA ♪ ♪ >> AND THEN ROUTE 66 GOT BUSY AND DRIVE-IN MOVIES WERE ALL THE >> OF COURSE, IN THE 50'S, CARS

>> SANTA ROSA, I MEAN THERE IS THIS IS A '57 CHEVY, 150 CALLED IT IS LIKE A LITTLE DRAG CAR. IT HAS GOT LT1 -- LET ME POP THE HOOD -- I'LL SHOW YOU. IT HAS GOT, YOU CAN EVEN READ IT HORSE WITH THREE ON THE TREE. THIS CAR IS WORTH $45,000. IT IS MINE. EVERYBODY LOVES IT, EVEN NOW TAKE DIRT FROM THE HIGHWAY, DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT. IT IS JUST TOO MUCH, YOU KNOW, ♪ ♪ >> DRIVING THOSE CARS WITH FINS

IT WAS A LIGHTED OASIS IN THE >> IN A WAY IT WAS THAT GREAT LONGED TO GET DAD TO STOP AT THE NEXT GAS STATION OR SNAKE PIT BUT HE WAS ON A QUEST. HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE TIME, BUT WHEN WE DID MAKE STOPS, THEY WERE GREAT, THEY WERE CLASSIC, THAT SHE HAD CREATED WITH HER THIS WAS TO WALK INTO THE LA FONDA HOTEL IN SANTA FE, TO WALK IN THE LA POSADA IN ALBUQUERQUE, TO SEE THE RIBBONS OF NEON, IT WAS AN EXCITING TRIP AND WE LOOKED FORWARD TO ISLAND HOPPING ACROSS THE WEST THROUGH THESE >> FROM GALLUP TO TUCUMCARI,

WALLS OF TRADING POSTS AND TOURISM BECAME A HUGE BUSINESS. >> ATKINSON WAS AN INDIAN JEWELRY, RUGS AND ARTIFACTS, OF PUTTING SNAKES IN THERE, UNDER GLASS, SO PEOPLE COULD IT BEGAN TO GROW AND GROW AND HE BEGAN TO BUY EXOTIC SNAKES. HE BOUGHT COBRAS AND PYTHONS AND AND THEN FINALLY ENDED UP BUYING A SNAKE THAT KILLED GRACE WILEY, A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER THEY FILLED UP THE PARKING LOT AND THAT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN GARDENS OR REPTILE GARDEN OR

WHATEVER. ♪ ♪ >> SOME OF THE 50'S KITSCH IS >> WE'RE STANDING ON OLD INTO LAGUNA AND THIS IS THE IT CHANGED THE PUEBLOS A GREAT TO COME IN AND IT GAVE AN OUTLET OPENED THEM TO THE OUTSIDE MEETING PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE IT WASN'T AS BIG A CHANGE, I THINK, AS THE HIGHWAY WAS. >> AN ENTERPRISING BUSINESSMAN CURIO SHOP OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF

BE INCLUDE IN THEIR MAPS EVEN THOUGH CLINES CORNERS WASN'T >> SOME OF MY FRIENDS THAT ENGAGE THE TOURISTS IN CONVERSATIONS AND FILL THEM FULL ONE OF THOSE STORIES HAS TO DO AND THAT SORT OF THING AND, TIMES, THE WIND WOULD NOT BLOW, IT WOULD GET TERRIBLY HOT IN THE SUMMER, SO RANCHERS WOULD TURN MAKE THE WIND BLOW, AND BY OF COURSE THAT WAS A NICE STORY, WERE TO HAVE FANS THAT WOULD

DAYS IN THE SUMMER OF NEW >> AND THEN THERE WERE THE ON PLATTERS AS BIG AS A STEERING ♪ ♪ >> MANY NEW INDUSTRIES WERE GARAGES, RENT-A-CAR SHOPS, IN ITS HAY DAY, NEARLY 400,000 PEOPLE A MONTH TRAVELLED THROUGH POPULATION OF ALBUQUERQUE,

MOVING UP AND DOWN THE HIGHWAY >> WE'RE OUT AT THE END OF WHAT ALIGNMENT AND OVER HERE ABOUT A SEEMINGLY REMOTE SECTION OF THE HIGHWAY. THIS PARTICULAR FAMILY HAD A THEIR GIMMICK WAS A BEAR WHO WAS REPUTED TO OPEN BATTLE CAPS. HE WOULD DO IT WITH HIS TEETH THEIR GAS AND DRINK A SODA. CASES OF BEER WITH BOTTLE CAPS AND WHEN THEY CAME BACK, THE BATTLE CAPS WERE REMOVED AND THE THAT STORY ACTUALLY CAME TO ME

OPERATED A GAS STATION SOME WHEN I TALKED WITH HER ABOUT HER THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF SPACE EIGHT, 10 MILES APART, THAT THE FOLKS WHO HAD THESE BUSINESSES ECONOMIC RESOURCE, ROUTE 66, BUT THEY ACTUALLY KNEW EACH OTHER, ELONGATING A LINEAR COMMUNITY THAT STRETCHED 400 MILES ACROSS >> AND ALTHOUGH THE EXCITEMENT BEHIND THE SCENES WHO TOOK EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF TAKE ROBERT CORDOVA IN SANTA

WITH ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL GARAGE WITH THE MONEY HE SAVED AND HE HAS NEVER LOOKED BACK. >> AFTER 40 BYPASSED US THINGS BUSINESS. AS SOON AS WE GOT OUR FEET BACK ON THE GROUND, I BOUGHT SOME INTERSTATE INTERCHANGE IN SANTA THERE. WHICH WE DID. >> THESE PEOPLE ARE TOTAL BUDVILLE OR GRANTS OR TUCUMCARI, YET THEY HAVE TRAVELED ALL OVER THEY ARE SO WISE, BECAUSE THE THEY HAVE PUMPED GAS FORK ERNEST

HEMINGWAY, BOB HOPE, ELVIS OF TOURISTAS AND THEY KNOW IT ALL. >> WHAT THOSE WISDOM KEEPERS ONE THAT COULD HANDLE THE THAT BEGAN TO CONGEST CITY STREETS AND CHOKE SMALLER TOWNS. >> ♪ ♪ (GUITARS AND SINGING.) "I DIDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY, DEAR LORD, I DIDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY." >> ♪ ♪ (GUITARS AND SINGING.) >> FOR ALL THE EXCITEMENT, WE HIGH SPEEDS, THOUSANDS OF

24,000 CARS PASSED DAILY THROUGH DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE. ♪ ♪ "THE CRASH ON THE HIGHWAY. I KNEW WHAT IT WAS FROM THE >> HERE WE ARE ON CENTRAL IN 1937, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE BECOME THE CROSSROADS OF NEW MEXICO. U.S. 85 CAME DOWN FOURTH STREET, AVENUE. FOR ALAS A DECADE LATER, A CONFLICT AROSE WHEN THE MAIN STREET OF ALBUQUERQUE AND THE EXPERIENCE GRIDLOCK, THUS UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERSTATE HERE ON CENTRAL AVENUE AND HALF HOUR TRYING TO GET ACROSS

>> INEXPERIENCED MOTORISTS SAFE PASSING DISTANCE OF >> YOU COULDN'T PASS JUST PEOPLE WAS GETTING KILLED TRYING ♪ ♪ (SINGING) ♪ ♪ (SINGING) "I HEARD THE CRASH ON THE HIGHWAY BUT I DIDN'T HEAR >> BY THE 1950'S, IT WAS IT WAS NO LONGER PRACTICAL FOR SUPER HIGHWAY SYSTEM, LIKE THE AUTOBAHN THAT WOULD LINK THE COUNTRY'S RESOURCES IN HOURS IT WOULD TAKE 30 YEARS FOR CONSTRUCTED, WE CHANGED HOW WE

TRAVELLED. TRAINS GAVE WAY TO THE MORE AUTOMOBILES BECAME A MEANS OF AND AIR TRAVEL REVOLUTIONIZED THE IMPACT OF THE SUPER HIGHWAY ON SMALLER TOWNS WAS IMMEDIATE. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT CHAINS BUSINESSES. TRAVEL GOT FASTER WITH PROCESSED EXPECTED EXPERIENCE. SPONTANEITY AND INDIVIDUALITY SADLY THOSE CULTURAL DIVERSIONS, GOLD MINES OF OUR HISTORY, WERE BYPASSED. A LOT OF THESE SMALL TOWNS, HIGHWAY SYSTEM. AND THERE REALLY EMERGED IN NEW

TOWNS AND EVEN THROUGH THEM IN THE CASE OF GALLUP AS WAS ORDER FOR THEM TO REMAIN VIABLE, HIGHWAY AND ALL OF THE CARS THAT WHOLE NEW BASICALLY FRANCHISED ECONOMIC SYSTEM HAS SPRUNG UP AT OF THE TOWNS. BUT, AT LEAST THE ROAD WAS STILL CONNECTED TO THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM SO THAT PEOPLE COULD AND INCREASINGLY NOW WITH THE GREAT INTEREST IN ROUTE 66, DRIVE THE >> WHEN THEY FINALLY, YOU KNOW, INTERESTING.

BECAUSE YOU BYPASSED THE HISTORY THAT I WANTED MY CHILDREN TO >> THE LADDER OF SUCCESS, I >> IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU CAN HEMINGWAY WROTE "THE OLD MAN AND AT ENDEE, WHERE IT IS STILL AN ROSA WHERE IT BECAME THE AIR STRIP. ALL ALONG I-40 ARE REMINDERS OF A PAST THAT IS BEING TENDED INTO >> TODAY ROUTE 66 IS STILL THE IT IS THE DESTINATION HOT SPOT CITY AND STATE OFFICIALS ARE

PRESERVE THE MANY ROUTE 66 LOCAL CITIZENS ARE ESTABLISHING THEMSELVES AS THE NEW BREED OF >> WE HAVE HAD MAGAZINES FROM GROUPS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO BE A PART OF ALBUQUERQUE'S >> OUR NEW MEXICO MAIN STREET THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF NEW COMMUNITIES AND INTO OUR URBAN INTERSTATE SYSTEM THAT BYPASSED >> SUPPORT FOR ROUTE 66 HAS AMERICA'S DREAMS AND AND ALL THIS NOSTALGIC SUPPORT

ISN'T GOING TO SAVE ALL THE WITH ROUTE 66. IN ORDER TO HAVE A LEGACY THAT OF SOME OF THESE OLD PROPERTIES, SO THAT THEY WILL STILL BE THERE TO TELL THEIR STORY. >> THERE IS MORE TO IT, THE OVER THE GRASSLAND NEAR SANTA ROSA, BUZZING IN THE NEON STRIPS OF ALBUQUERQUE, TO THE GALLUP..... >> IT IS THE HEART THING. IT IS THE ROAD TO FUN. IT IS THE ROAD TO VACATION; ROAD IT IS THE ROUTE TO GO WHEREVER YOUR HEART DESIRES.

>> ROUTE 66 IS JUST A BEAUTIFUL IT HAS CAPTURED ALL OF US, THOSE THAT SAW IT AND THOSE THAT ARE >> IN THIS LAND OF AND NATIVE AMERICANS, ROUTE 66 IN A LANDSCAPE WHERE TIME DELICIOUS RECIPE OF OUR MEMORIES AND DREAMS FUELED THE ONGOING REINVENTION OF OURSELVES. >> MAJOR CORPORATE FUNDING FOR

LIKE THE PROUD HIGHWAY, WE ARE THE PERFORMANCE COMPANY, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION. ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS PROVIDED THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF