Editing U.S. Route 66 (section)

==In popular culture==
US&nbsp;66 has been a fixture in popular culture. American pop-culture artists publicized US&nbsp;66 and the experience, through song and television. [[Bobby Troup]] wrote "[[(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66]]", which was popularized by [[Nat King Cole]] with the King Cole Trio, and later covered by artists ranging from [[Chuck Berry]] and [[Glenn Frey]] to [[The Manhattan Transfer]], [[John Mayer]], and [[Brian Setzer]], as well as [[the Rolling Stones]] in their eponymous [[The Rolling Stones (album)|debut album]]. The highway lent its name to the ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' TV series in the 1960s,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Snyder |first=Tom |title=Welcome to the Old Road |publisher=St Martin's Press |year=2000 |location=New York |page=xii}}</ref> which itself had a [[Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Themes|popular theme song]] written and arranged by [[Nelson Riddle]]. The novel ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'', adapted to [[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|film in 1940]], depicts the Joad family traveling to [[California]] on US&nbsp;66 after being evicted from their small farm in [[Oklahoma]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |date=August 27, 2009 |title=''The Grapes of Wrath'' Revisited: Same Road, Same Grim Story, Same Sense of Optimism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/28/us-grapes-wrath-route-66 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003143111/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/28/us-grapes-wrath-route-66 |archive-date=October 3, 2016 |access-date=October 2, 2016 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref>

<blockquote>66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all of these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.<ref>''Grapes of Wrath'', chapter 12.{{full citation needed|date=January 2022}}</ref></blockquote>

The 2006 animated film ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'' had the [[working title]] ''Route 66'', and described the decline of the fictional [[Radiator Springs]], nearly a ghost town once its mother road, US&nbsp;66, was bypassed by [[Interstate 40]]. The title was eventually changed to simply ''Cars'' to avoid confusion with the 1960s television series.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=drmcreif |last2=paladin-64 |last3=preshusbane |year=2014 |title=Synopsis for ''Cars'' (2006) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317219/synopsis |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609060358/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317219/synopsis |archive-date=June 9, 2015 |access-date=November 18, 2014 |website=IMDb |publisher=Amazon}}</ref>

On April 30, 2022, the 96th anniversary of the route's numerical designation, Route 66 was honored with a video [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating Route 66 |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-route-66/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429225637/http://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-route-66 |archive-date=April 29, 2022 |access-date=April 30, 2022 |website=www.google.com |language=en}}</ref>