The Route 66 Centennial Kicks Off

PART 2
DRIVIN’IN MY CAR At the new Birthplace Plaza, fans ofTheToday Show brought some innovative photo props. If you want to get a copy of the book we’re holding, email us at Route66Ramble@gmail.com or find it on Amazon.com.
DRIVIN’IN MY CAR At the new Birthplace Plaza, fans ofTheToday Show brought some innovative photo props. If you want to get a copy of the book we’re holding, email us at Route66Ramble@gmail.com or find it on Amazon.com.

It probably took longer for the army of NBC-TV producers and grips and camera operators to capture the Today Show’s 20-second “Third Hour Live” opener that morning than it did for Cyrus Avery and his fellow highway promoters to debate the relative merits of “66” versus “62” a century earlier.

Kay and I watched with interest from the rail of the crowd barrier as a straw-hatted Al Roker stepped into …