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	The Mother Road
Aribeth
8-20-2009 5:27 PM
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legendary, route 66 new mexico, icon
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8-20-2009 5:38 PM
foxyarse
Best song version "Route 66" by the Rolling Stones
8-21-2009 1:21 AM
lollipop10
Cool picture
8-22-2009 5:57 PM
abailart
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3456065
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/30883068-6a2a-4792-862f-c2d0fee61b79/13923A1F-EDDB-4301-8B97-785EF53ECD4E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html" href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.legendsofamerica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html"><P align="center"><B><FONT face="Arial">LEGENDARY 
      ROUTE 66</FONT></B></p> <P align="center"><FONT size="5" face="Arial"><B>The Mother Road</B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html"><P align="center" class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT size="2" face="Arial" color="#800000"><I>"Life doesn't happen 
          along the interstates. It's against the law."</I></FONT></B></p> <P align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <P align="center" class="MsoNormal">
          <B><FONT size="2" face="Arial" color="#800000">-- William Least Heat 
          Moon, <I>Blue Highways</I></FONT></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.legendsofamerica.com/img/59FC782E-1118-4485-845E-6FFD6CF14B3C" alt="Route 66 Postcard" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html"><A href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Mainpage.html">Mother Road</A> 
          is an experience, a feeling, a perception, a taste of sight and sound, 
          and a mystery that can only be resolved by driving the pavement 
          itself.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html">The 
          “super-highway,” as it was thought of in 1926, represented 
          unprecedented freedom to travel across the
          <A href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/LA-OldWestLegends.html">
          American West</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Info.html"><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial">
          <SPAN>
          <IMG height="176" border="1" align="left" width="179" alt="John Steinbeck" src="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/Route66/steinbeck.jpg" /></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN>John 
          Steinbeck, in 1939, proclaimed
          <A href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Mainpage.html">Route 66</A> 
          as the “<A href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Mainpage.html">Mother 
          Road</A>” in his classic novel <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I>. When 
          the movie was made just a year later, it immortalized
          <A href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Mainpage.html">Route 66</A> 
          in the American consciousness. Shortly thereafter, more than 
          200,000 people migrated to
          <A href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-California.html">
          California</A> to escape the Dust Bowl of the Midwest, symbolizing the 
          highway as the “road to opportunity.”</SPAN></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66" href="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66" style="font-size: 11px;">www.destination360.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66">Route 66 history dates back to November 11, 1926. Its 
  origins ran 2,448 miles from Chicago all the way to Los 
  Angeles.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66">1985</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66">officially decommissioned as 
  a federal highway</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.destination360.com/img/0AC0D5A3-454E-4515-86FC-A8CBBB649FAA" alt="Route 66 New Mexico" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66">"Get your Kicks on Route 66'</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66">Bobby Troup</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-mexico/route-66">1946</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13923A1F-EDDB-4301-8B97-785EF53ECD4E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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