Welcome To Our Website Dedicated To Route 66 ! This website has been created by two high school students within the framework of the Framed Personnals Works (TPE); it is suggested as a "final work". Its aim is to retrace the different points that we studied within our report on, as you could have guessed, Route 66.

On our website, you will able able to find the main and the most important information about the mythical Main Street Of America, answering to the problem we asked ourselves : What allow us to say that the borders that separate the different states crossed by Route 66 are more than just political and administrative borders ?
We divided the contents in three so it makes the nagivation easier. The first point is the geography of the road, including a short presentation of it, the differents states crossing it and the main cities on the Road. The second major point is the history of Route 66. Here, you will find listed the major events related to the road. Cultures of the states that crosses the road constitute the third part of our contents. There, we listed under different subjects - food, parties, traditions, the population and the myth - what makes Route 66, and the states crossing it, so special. Finally, you also will able to read a testimony of the leader of the Preservation Foundation of California, that we approached to collect his feelings and his opinions on the Mother Road.
 
You will find beneath on this page previews of the different explanatory comments you can read in their entirety by clicking on the links on the left menu.

So, here we are, I think everthing has been said. So enjoy your stay, and as the guys from Route 66 says it : "Get Your Kicks" on our webiste !

John Steinbeck was simply calling her "The Mother Road". For many American people, it is "The Main Street Of Americia".

Strolling on Route 66 is really similar to a nostalgic walk whithin the contemporary North American history. It is also a wonderfull tourist route who enables the travelers to experience other states than those in the West and the East coasts of this huge continent.

From its very first debute, the Highway 66 became popular; thanks to its course and to the diversity of the people who populated it, it also forged itself a strong reputation of a difficult, wide a soon a mythical road...

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Route 66 includes eight states and some of them are really different from each other. The cultures may not be the same all over the United States of America. That's why taking a ride on Route 66 is a real disorientation : you travel from state to state without seing the same kinds of people, the same traditions, etc. "The Mother Road" includes a incredible mix of cultures, especially with Los Angeles which is the multicural city above all else.

We chose to dwell on three points to study in detail the different cultures crossed by the Road : food, parties, traditions, population. Finally, you will see how and why we can conclude that Route 66 has become a real myth, truly a legend.

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At this spot of our ride, discover an incredibly affluent testimony from a member of the Route 66 Preservation Association (The California Route 66 Preservation Foundation) who tells about the road, what it represents for the American people, for himself, what is fighting against by his assocition... For him, "if we are not successful in preserving and marketing Route 66 then all the other roads will fail in their efforts too. I like to say that Route 66 is the Queen of the Ball but she has a lot of sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles. " You'll find more of his feeling about the Road in the "Testimony" section.

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At last, as our journey among the "Roadies" comes to an end, we referred you all the books, works and websites that help us throughout this report on Route 66, to set it up; a report that would have been nothing with all this major works, and also a report that had been an incredible experience for both of us.

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