Synopsis

Route 66, stretching across eight states from Illinois to California and spanning some 2,400 miles, embodied an American ideal—the promise of something better just beyond the horizon. Emerging in the early twentieth century, its rise was fueled by a convergence of factors: burgeoning automobile production, advances in steel construction and concrete paving, coupled with rapid population growth, westward expansion, and newfound prosperity following World War I. Responding to these developments, t