“Route 66”
Recorded by Nat King Cole
Written by Bob Troup, 1946
If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway that is best.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
It winds from Chicago to LA,
More than two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
Now you go through Saint Looey
Joplin, Missouri,
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.
You see Amarillo,
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Don't forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino..."

And on and on.

It's now a major state highway that runs about 80 miles through a bunch of suburbs & exurbs, though part of it is on interstate highways.
The route "kitsch" starts farther south than us where it just becomes frontage roads and othe state highways & city streets. I've never taken the road south of Bloomington though.

Less than half a mile from the junction of route 66 and route 150

More than 60 years later, I am about a mile and a half from that same junction

I haven’t gotten very far, but that is ok because I live in the best little city in the world!

to be pretty British maidens. I must admit to being stupidly disappointed . . .

Nevertheless happenstance can be really neat. Turn an otherwise normal day to a spirit raising experience. Remind a person it is good to be alive.

Thanks for the story.