Route 66 (now Main Street) passing through the business district of Barstow, circa 1948. This busy downtown district was bypassed when the 15 Freeway from Victorville to Barstow was completed in 1958.

Route 66 traffic became so saturated and unsafe in the postwar era that Oklahoma built a turnpike between Tulsa and Joplin, Missouri in 1957, the route's first major bypass.

Route 66 was the lifeblood for small desert towns, and many like this were bypassed by the new interstate system adopted in 1956. (Courtesy of Mark Landis) Expand ...

Formerly a gas station for Route 66 travelers, the building became a dental office in 1965, after Route 66 bypassed Edwardsville. The Illinois Department of Transportation purchased the site in ...

Whether you’re going to go the whole of Route 66, which in total takes 37 hours of driving, or just a segment, here's a guide for first timers.

Much of it has been covered by multi-lane freeways or bypassed and left to crumble into disuse but stretches of Route 66, the famed highway immortalised in song, are being renovated and revived in ...

Unfortunately for Texas travelers, Route 66 is mostly a ghost itself. Decommissioned in 1985, many sections of the route were swallowed up and made a part of other state, local or private roads.

Whether you’re going to go the whole of Route 66, which in total takes 37 hours of driving, or just a segment, here's a guide for first timers.

Edwardsville has a historic theater, Collinsville a giant catsup bottle and East St. Louis its jazz, all Americana from the glory days of Route 66. Now a series of 12 outdoor murals will link some … ...