The family on the 1991-94 puppet-based TV series “Dinosaurs” was named Sinclair, inspired by the green brontosaurus logo of the Sinclair Oil Company. Supporting characters named for other oil companies included Ethyl Phillips, Roy Hess, and B.P. Richfield.
The Sinclair Freeway (which is several hundred miles north of Route 66), can be found in San Jose and it’s suburbs in California. Made up of pars fo I-680 and I-280, it is named after Joseph P. Sinclair who was the District Engineer for District IV of the Division of Highways (now Caltrans) from 1952 to 1964, when the interstate highway program was in development and construction.
In 1971, 23 year old Margaret Sinclair married Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Their eldest son currently holds a position in the federal public service.
You know, I think I’ve heard of him…
During World War I, when the Dominion of Canada and the Empire of Japan were allies, Japanese warships patrolled the west coast of Canada at the request of the Canadian government. From 1939-45, not so much.
In December of 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third most powerful navy in the world. By May 1945, most of the Imperial Japanese Navy had been sunk and the remnants had taken refuge in Japan’s harbors. At the end of the war, the Imperial Japanese Navy had lost 334 warships and over 300,000 officers and men.
In 2015 several Route 66 aficionados in Japan officially formed the Route 66 Association of Japan.
https://route66.jp/ – but if you Google Translate the page you get Harley motorcycle info.
The Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) is a transcontinental federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the Atlantic on the east. Because decisions about highway and freeway construction are entirely under the jurisdiction of the individual provinces, route numbering on the TCH is also handled by the provinces. While most of the main route is designated as Route 1 in the western provinces, you can find a spur in Ontario that follows Route 66 for 36 miles before turning into Route 117 in Quebec.
The Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) is a pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. With 639 licensed beds and 465 beds in operation, it is the largest children’s hospital in the United States. It is affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine as that institution’s primary pediatric training site.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee was founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, with help from Lemuel Diggs and close friend, Miami, Florida, automobile dealer Anthony Abraham, on the premise that “no child should die in the dawn of life”. This idea resulted from a promise that Thomas, a Maronite Catholic, had made to a saint years before the hospital was founded. Thomas was a comedian who was struggling to get a break in his career and living paycheck to paycheck. When his first child was about to be born, he attended Mass in Detroit and put his last $7.00 in the offering bin. He prayed to St. Jude Thaddeus for a means to provide for his family, and about a week later, he obtained a gig that paid 10 times what he had put in the offering bin. After that time, Thomas believed in the power of prayer. He promised St. Jude Thaddeus that if he made him successful, he would one day build him a shrine. Years later, Thomas became an extremely successful comedian and built St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a shrine to St. Jude Thaddeus to honor his promise.
Texas attractions along or near Route 66 include (with image links; includes automobiles):[ul]
[li]Canyon TX: Palo Duro Canyon State Park — https://goo.gl/YmyahU[/li][li]Groom TX: Leaning Water Tower — https://goo.gl/WPkEc9[/li][li]Groom TX: The Giant Cross — https://goo.gl/83cCzo[/li][li]Conway TX: VW Slug Bug Ranch — https://goo.gl/wVc939[/li][li]Amarillo TX: Cadillac Ranch — https://goo.gl/hnViDo[/li][li]Amarillo TX: The Big Texan Steak Ranch — https://goo.gl/oEFru3[/li][li]Adrian TX: Route 66 Midpoint — https://goo.gl/cGUeXf[/li][li]Shamrock TX: The Conoco Tower Station and U-Drop Inn Café — https://goo.gl/4ySN6H[/li][li]McLean TX: The Devil’s Rope and Route 66 Museum — https://goo.gl/f6MEh3[/li][/ul]
A roadside attraction similar to Cadillac Ranch is Carhenge, in Alliance, Nebraska. It repeats the theme of a row of cars partly buried, with the twist that they are in a circle, except for some resting on others, and all painted gray to resemble the rocks at Stonehenge. It is something of a side trip from Route 66, which does not pass through Nebraska, although the Transcontinental Railroad does.
The Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin, the last battleship in the world to fire its guns in anger (during Gulf War I, when shelling Iraqi targets ashore; Steve Martin came aboard shortly before then as part of a USO tour), is a key feature of the Nauticus maritime-history museum in Norfolk, Va. She is still painted the same U.S. Navy gray she was at the time of her decommissioning.
“In The Navy” was the last Top 10 hit for The Village People. The video was shot in San Diego aboard the berthed frigate USS Reasoner, but in the end the Navy, unlike the YMCA, decided not to use a Village People song with homoerotic undertones in its advertising.
Chicago’s Navy Pier has attractions including sightseeing tours, dinner cruises, an IMAX theatre, restaurants, shops and fairground rides such as 150-foot-tall Ferris Wheel. There are fireworks on Wednesday and Saturday nights during the summer, and Friday and Saturday nights during the fall.
And yes mates, it’s along Route 66.
“The Night Chicago Died” is a song by the British group Paper Lace, written by Peter Callander and Mitch Murray. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974, reached number 3 in the UK charts, and number 2 in Canada. Though the song’s story is set in the United States, Paper Lace were unable to perform the song live in the U.S. at the height of its popularity because of contractual issues.
Billy Connolly’s Route 66 is a British travel documentary television series presented by Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly. It focuses on his travels along the famous United States highway, Route 66. The series, which consisted of four episodes, was shown on the British television network ITV. The first episode aired at 9pm on 15 September 2011.
The British Royal Navy currently has no operational aircraft carriers, but is expecting two in the near future, although their construction costs (with severe overruns and delays) and anticipated operating expenses are prodigious.
Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, served aboard the aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible, in 1982 and 83, including during the Falklands War. The British Cabinet wanted Prince Andrew to be moved to a desk job for the duration of the conflict. The Queen, however, insisted that her son be allowed to remain with his ship. Commander Nigel Ward’s memoir, Sea Harrier Over the Falklands, described Prince Andrew as “an excellent pilot and a very promising officer.”
In 1921 — the Federal Aid Highway Act, also called the Phipps Act as it was sponsored by Colorado Senator Lawrence Cowle Phipps, was the first coherent plan for the US’s future roads.
In 1922 — the Bureau of Public Roads commissioned Gen. John J. Pershing to draw up the Pershing Map for construction purposes and to give the government a clear understanding of which roads in the US were the most important in the event of war. The “Pershing Map” was the first official topographic road map of the US.
These events provided the impetus of US Route 66. Cyrus Avery, an Oklahoma state highway official, and Springfield, Missouri, entrepreneur John Woodruff mapped out Route 66′s diagonal course based on existing trails blazed by Native Americans, explorers and soldiers.
Lawrence Cowle Phipps, the namesake of Phippsburg CO, died in 1958 in Santa Monica CA which is the end of Route 66. He was entombed in the Fairmount Mausoleum, which houses one of the largest stained glass collections in Colorado, at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. A notable interment of the Fairmount Mausoleum is that of Edwin C. Johnson. The eastbound bore of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel on I-70 is named for Edwin Carl ‘Big Ed’ Johnson (1884-1970), former 26th and 34th Governor and US Senator. A notable burial of Fairmount Cemetery is that of pilot Lt. Francis B. Lowry.
Today, 85 percent of Route 66 remains drivable.
Cimarron County in Oklahoma is the only county in the U.S. that touches four other states: Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Kansas. It is also the westernmost county and the least-populous county in Oklahoma.