A postcard from Oklahoma (Randi)
  • A postcard from Oklahoma (Randi)
  • A postcard from Oklahoma (Randi)
  • A postcard from Oklahoma (Randi)

A postcard from Oklahoma (Randi)

8 130Km

Date of dispatch : 2011-07-01

Country: USA

 U.S. Route 66 was a highway within the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 -- with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in America, originally ran from Chicago, through MissouriKansasOklahomaTexasNew MexicoArizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song (written by Bobby Troup, originally recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio in 1946, and later performed by such artists as Chuck BerryThe Rolling StonesThe Manhattan Transfer and Depeche Mode) and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.