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America: Route 66 "The Mother Road of America"
There is no highway in America where the culture
and the romance of driving are more connected as
route 66. Not for nothing is this legendary
route called the " Mother Road of America ." In
this film we are making a report for you about
the stretch of route 66 that begins on the
banks of Lake Michigan in the city of Chicago
and takes us through 8 states. Pioneers who in
earlier times travelled west in their covered
wagons made tracks in the landscape. It goes
without saying that the new route 66 would
follow the same track that was already entirely
paved in 1903.In the towns along the route we
cannot escape the numerous shops of nostalgic
bits and pieces and souveniers of route 66.The
route 66 Museum in Clinton exhibits an extensive
display of original history and life along the
legendary route. Enthousiastic volenteers place
themselves along the route to preserve the Route
66 sentimentality and so here and there the
picture is perfect.But as we near the end of
route 66 after 5000 miles,there is little about
the legend that remarkably and anonymously ends
at Los Angeles in the surf of the Great Ocean.