EZ UPDATES

For readers of the EZ 66 Guide for Travelers, I have provided free online updates to help keep your Route 66 experience as current as possible. As you might imagine, Route 66 is constantly undergoing changes, some good, others not so. Businesses open and close, roads are re-routed and street names change.

Please check back here just before your trip for the latest info. Entries are dated as to when they were added.

If you wish to purchase your own copy of the EZ Guide, please go here.

EZ 66 readers have been helpful in keeping me keep the guidebook updated in between my own road trips, so if you discover something that needs to be addressed while on your journey, please let me know!

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IL page-9 on Aug 09, 2010 at 10:38:25 am [Print]
The Riviera recently burned down, and the streetcar has been removed.

OK page 16 on Jul 16, 2010 at 10:42:15 am [Print]
My artwork is now hanging back in the McJerry's Route 66 Gallery at 306 Manvel, after the remodeling of the inside. Still much to do before my grand opening, but I welcome Rte 66 visitors anytime I am home. Give me a call (my phone's in the EZ)...I am not open regular hours but on a "luck or appointment" basis.)

BTW...I am within a block of 66 just north of downtown Chandler. As you motor in headed west, 66 begins a series of curves (past the armory/interpretive center). Look for the signs that indicate "To I-44" and OK Hwy 18, and turn RIGHT. Head downhill, and my galley is just past the second house on the right, at 306 Manvel (look for the antique gas pump). My main driveway is still bad, so use the next entrance and park on the grass.

Going EB, go past the traffic light at the top of the hill north of downtown, and follow the I-44 and OK 18 signs to swerve left back onto Manvel.

Call my cell (903) 467 6384) or knock next door at 310 Manvel.

OK page 16 on Jul 16, 2010 at 10:35:30 am [Print]
Whoops! meant to tell you that the Motorcycle Museum at Seaba Station in Warwick is NOW OPEN!

Its pretty cool and well worth the stop if you are into vintage bikes or cool old gas stations (Seaba was a DX station, and then a machine shop).


IL page-22 on Jul 03, 2010 at 4:44:36 pm [Print]
The Giant surfer dude and pink elephant that once where here are now at Livingston at the "Gymnasim" antique mall. This is off EXIT 37 on the 1950s era 66 (not part of the tour but worth a detour). They also have a flying saucer-like structure, etc.

IL page-21 on Jul 03, 2010 at 4:42:47 pm [Print]
Well, Route 66 lost another nice little bridge...a little brick-guard-railed structure on Cambridge Road between Girard ans Nilwood on the official 1926-1930 routing.

It is currently being replaced, and a detour will be in effect until work is done.

Also the affected map shows a side road (not 66), Greenbridge Rd, that connects to current IL 4 from Cambridge Rd...this is now blocked at the RR tracks.

Thanks to Kevin and Yvonne.

MO page-19 on Mar 16, 2010 at 11:07:48 am [Print]
The RV Express RV Park In Marshfield has CLOSED.

OK page-27 on Jan 22, 2010 at 8:03:27 pm [Print]
Its too late to wave HI or BYE to the Giant Indian that was in Clinton...he's moved to Hinton, Ok (south of 66 on Hwy 281).

MO page-7 on Oct 29, 2009 at 11:07:07 am [Print]
ROUTE 66 State Park: The old Route 66 bridge across the Meramec River that connected the east and west half of this park is now closed for "safety reasons."

For Route 66 travelers, access to the visitor's center and its exhibits will be most important. As before, exit I-44 at Exit 266 (Lewis Road).

But you won't be able to cross the bridge into the main park.

According to MODOT, here are directions to access the park on the west side of the river:

To access the park from westbound I-44, exit at Route 109 and turn around and take eastbound I-44. Exit at Williams Road, and take the first left onto the south outer road. Follow the outer road into the Route 66 State Park.

To access the park from eastbound I-44, exit at Williams Road, and take the
first left onto the south outer road. Follow the outer road into the Route 66 State Park.



OK page 23 and 24 on Oct 19, 2009 at 11:16:25 am [Print]
The washout on the tour route between Hinton Jct (near Bridgeport) and Exit 95 (east of Hydro) has been (temporarily at least) repaired. Warning signs at each end of this stretch (between Exit 101 (Hinton JCT) and Exit 95 (Bethel Rd) state "NO TRUCKS." So until they further repair this problem I am calling an RV ALERT.

RVs should detour around this stretch via I-40 between Exit 101 and Exit 95.

NM page-12 on Oct 13, 2009 at 1:17:22 pm [Print]
The La Posada De Albuquerque is now the Hotel Andaluz, reopened as a "botique hotel" after a $30 million renovation with 107 rooms and suites.
For green-minded folks, this is now the only silver-LEED-certified hotel in New Mexico and the only hotel on the National Register of Historic Places that is LEED-certified at any level.

reservation number: 505-242-9090
http://www.hotelandaluz.com/