Vintage shots from days gone by!

Man how could that guy ruin a classic Packard like that?

 

Lassie with a classy chassis!

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On this date:
Jun 27, 1985:
Route 66 decertified

After 59 years, the iconic Route 66 enters the realm of history on this day in 1985, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials decertifies the road and votes to remove all its highway signs.

Measuring some 2,200 miles in its heyday, Route 66 stretched from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing through eight states. According to a New York Times article about its decertification, most of Route 66 followed a path through the wilderness forged in 1857 by U.S. Navy Lieutenant Edward Beale at the head of a caravan of camels. Over the years, wagon trains and cattlemen eventually made way for trucks and passenger automobiles.

 

My Grandfather with his new Ford, taken in 1948. Strange 'cause he always had Chevy's. Kane, Illinois. Bare lot now.

 

Roodhouse Novelty Pottery Co., Roodhouse, Illinois. You can see where the kilns were in the grass now.

 

Okay, the last one that's not really a 'shot'!

 

1967

 

1965

 

Alabama 1973