Route 66: The Main Street of America
Directed by John Paget
Route 66: The Main Street of America is a centennial celebration of this legendary highway. It’s a powerfully moving feature-length documentary that travels the route, sharing unforgettable stories along the way. From unexpected roadside attractions to revitalized main streets, each encounter reveals communities finding new life and purpose—making new history—proving the most meaningful journeys often unfold on the… From TMDB
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Route 66: The Main Street of America is a 2026 documentary film, directed by John Paget.
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60 of 96 · most liked firstWhen the Road Moved On Route 66 California - feels like the Dust Bowl Days. CMEHA SMENA 8M camera with Lomography's Lady Greys black and white film. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #Route66
neutral · AI labelView post →Seems to me Lee Marvin and Sam Peckinpah should have made a movie together. At least they made an episode of ROUTE 66
neutral · AI labelView post →Roy's Cafe on historic Route 66 in Amboy, California on film 🎞 #filmphotography #filmneverdies #photography #believeinfilm #California #route66
neutral · AI labelView post →#RoadTrip #Route66 #Photography First chance to get off the highway and on to historic Route 66. We stopped in at the Bagdad Cafe. A movie by that name was made here, and it has a cult following.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was lucky to meet the filmmaker for this heartfelt doc. I love history & this was absolutely fascinating. Director John Paget has an additional 7 hours he hopes to show on PBS!🤞🏻A few stories brought tears to my eyes. See it, it's on the road!🛣️ #FilmSky #Documentary #Route66 #Centennial #RoadShow
positive · AI labelView post →Old Route 66, Arizona 📸Nikkormat FTN 🎞️NY, NY 400 #filmphotography #35mm #route66 #arizona #desertvibes
neutral · AI labelView post →We're back in the film fest circuit for 2026!!! My short film, JUST THE JANITOR, is playing Route 66's historic Coleman Theatre as part of the Sunny Side Up Film Festival! Hope to see you on June 13th in Miami, OK!
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – Ken's Ice Cream Sandwiches 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 📍 Tucumcari, NM
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – Tee Pee Curios 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 📍 Tucumcari, NM
neutral · AI labelView post →AP declares Democrat Deb Haaland as first female, Native American governor in US. Deb Haaland, a former U.S. interior secretary who previously represented New Mexico in Congress, made history Tuesday night as the first Native American woman in the nation to be elected governor. The Associated Press declared Haaland the winner in the race with an estimated 41% of the vote counted. Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo, watched results come in at the Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque along with…
neutral · AI labelView post →"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack squirrels leaping off the shoulder of Route 66. I've watched despondent producers' headlights glitter in the dark, near the Warner Brothers gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like NDAs in film."
neutral · AI labelView post →#musicchallenge #musicplaces Route 66 from the movie RV youtu.be/AYh9Zxrpe3g?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn’t know Route 66 is a real thing I thought the cars movie made it up
neutral · AI labelView post →#SoundtrackChallenge #MusicChallenge Song from an animated movie Cars Chuck Barry - Route 66 youtu.be/tg2EbJy-9dc?...
neutral · AI labelView post →PSA: I added a section with anniversaries coming up in the rest of 2026 including the 60th of Medicare going into effect in July, 40th of Pixar's first film and 180th of the Smithsonian in Aug, 95th of Al Capone's conviction of tax evasion in Oct, and 100th of both Route 66 and NBC Radio in Nov!
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – Blue Whale 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 📍 Catoosa, OK
neutral · AI labelView post →We ventured outside of Orange County for the day and hit a few spots along historic Route 66! Rancho Cucamonga, CA - 6/15/24 #cinestill #CineStill400D #OlympusPenEE3 #photography #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Good morning from the boots court motel on Route 66 Taken with a Pentax 17 and Kodak gold 200 #pentax17 #route66 #roadtrip #film
neutral · AI labelView post →#TeztunesMonthOfMusic #NewMusicChallenge 10/21 -a song that has the same title as a movie or TV series Route 66 - Depeche Mode
neutral · AI labelView post →#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 1. Movie outro/movie credits RV (Runaway Vacation) Closing Credits Route 66 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Ve...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a fun one we did as Route 66 marks its centennial. Lovely writing, and fun with the photos: all shot on disposable film cameras. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – Gary's Gay Parita Sinclair Station 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 📍 Paris Junction, MO
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – American Giant Museum, The Snerd 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 📍 Atlanta, IL
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – The Sign 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🔎 Carl Zeiss Planar 2.8/80 T* 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 🧪 Unicolor C-41 📍 Joliet, IL
neutral · AI labelView post →Route 66 has some weird stuff. We first saw these in Cars movie, but finally saw them for ourselves. This is hotel has been in San Bernardino since 1949. #wigwamhotel #weirdcalifornia #route66 #photography #roadtrip flic.kr/p/2qAdCe2
neutral · AI labelView post →And let me just add that the Route 66 Theater is pretty close to the Platonic ideal of the small town movie theater.
neutral · AI labelView post →Images from Route 66 – Gemini Giant 📷 Hasselblad 203FE 🎞️ CatLABS X FILM 100 Color 📍 Wilmington, IL
neutral · AI labelView post →Recently road tripped for the holiday on Route 66. Film snaps to come. But the burgers were ample along the way.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you’ve been wondering if the old “Route 66” still exists, yes, yes it does. And it has some photogenic abandoned buildings, like a movie set. And yes you can still get your kicks on Route 66.
neutral · AI labelView post →From a 1920s lifesaver for Route 66 travelers to ruins blown up for a movie set (Universal Soldier), Cool Springs Station is the ultimate Arizona comeback story. Now beautifully restored, its iconic stone pillars are a must-see for any Route 66 road trip. #route66 #travel #history #getyourkicks
neutral · AI labelView post →Driving friends to east SoCal and being like THIS IS ROUTE 66 FROM THE MOVIE CARS 1
neutral · AI labelView post →99 yrs ago today, U.S. Highway 66 was established! To mark the anniversary, @savingplaces is proud to partner w/ First+Main Films on Route 66: The Main Street of America, a documentary celebrating the legendary highway's past & future! Learn more at ow.ly/Bmt350XpBZ8
neutral · AI labelView post →Route 66 Car Show in Amboy on Harman Phoenix 200 film
neutral · AI labelView post →Back in Miami, Oklahoma today to see a Christmas classic film in one of Route 66's most beautiful venues!
neutral · AI labelView post →I drove the length of Route 66 in Arizona and wrote about it. I quote John Steinbeck, Robert Penn Warren and … “Cars.” Yes, the Pixar movie. All seem appropriate and important. I enjoyed this trip and I enjoyed writing about it. There’s a link in the comments where you can read it. I hope you will!
neutral · AI labelView post →The best thing you can hope for with a Ghost Rider movie is a modest but dedicated success as an unexpected genre experiment. I envision some kind of Route 66 Cramps phantasmagoria, but it doesn’t have to be that . Just something specific and weird. It’s absolutely not a star vehicle.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't forget that John Mayer did a version of Route 66 for the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The score for #TheSpyInTheGreenHat was done my Nelson Riddle (TV's "Route 66", Kubrick's "Lolita", "The Great Gatsby" etc..) ... and (of course, the 1966 "Batman" movie) ... I knew the "vibe" seemed familiar. 🧐 #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blue Whale of Catoosa on Route 66 on film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably check out my hometown on Route 66. Also, that movie documentary has a script by Norman Corwin, so it should be damn good.
positive · AI labelView post →Wonderful night at Tulsa's Circle Cinema for a screening of John Paget's 1995 documentary Route 66: An American Odyssey as a lead-in to a new Route 66 film he's filming now for the Centennial.
neutral · AI labelView post →After 9 days of driving, from the Midwest to the west coast, the journey through (2/3’s of) Route 66 was finished. Now to develop the handful of film I went through and hope we got some good shots in. #photography
neutral · AI labelView post →Another tenuous Silliphant MST3K connection: Legend has it that Harold P. Warren, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, met Stirling when they were making a Route 66 episode in El Paso. Hal bet Silliphant that anybody could make a movie if they just raised enough money. And doggone it, he sure did!
neutral · AI labelView post →Cars is like so very catered to my interests. As a car nerd who also loves historic Route 66 and has a very soft spot for American cars of the early 50’s, how have I not seen this movie before
neutral · AI labelView post →My wife and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary this evening. We went to a sushi joint for dinner, stopped by Pops on Route 66 for a couple of sodas, took a nature walk at Bluff Creek Park, and finished it up watching the 1988 British Horror film Lair of the White Worm. Kinda sums us up.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Dust to Malibu," a movie filmed almost entirely in Springfield, will make its world premiere at Moxie Cinema during the Route 66 Centennial Kickoff Celebration. Read it: sgfcitizen.org/springfield-...
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 6- A song with the same title as a movie, book or TV show. Route 66/TV Program/1960 - 1964 Route 66/Nat King Cole/1946 youtu.be/92iO86SzLGY?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sterling Silliphant #botd — A prolific screenwriter with more than 700 hours of prime-time television drama to his credit, including Naked City and Route 66, he won an Oscar for his screenplay for Norman Jewison's acclaimed 1967 film In the Heat of the Night.
neutral · AI labelView post →George Reeves was born on this day in 1914. I invite you to watch this scene showing the values of tolerance and compassion his Superman stood for. The Route 66 Spirit of America Museum will celebrate this film in the fall. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @variety.com #USA250 youtu.be/xGVYK9GOVzI?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Radiator Springs of the Pixar movie Cars only exists at Disneyland. Producers did travel Route 66 getting inspiration from many historic places like a restored circa 1934 Kan-O-Tex service station in Illinois where a rusted 1951 International Harvester tow truck "Tow Tater" inspired "Tow Mater."
neutral · AI labelView post →I really like that movie, for all the reasons you've mentioned, plus it always makes me nostalgic for the Route 66 trip I did in 2007. The soundtrack's good too - Real Gone and Life is a Highway are *great* opening tracks and really energise the first 10 mins or so of the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →This sort of parallels what happened to Route 66 when the interstate highway system was created, as portrayed in the Pixar movie Cars, doesn’t it?
neutral · AI labelView post →Calming shelf before the storm (and dust) on our 8th #ICECHIP deployment on a QLCS in the TX panhandle. Stayed the night along Route 66 (they should make a Cars movie with storm chasing armadas)
neutral · AI labelView post →Route 66 by Depeche Mode on radio. Another fragment from Earth Girls Are Easy which is a great terrible movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm selling & signing "Inland Empire & San Gabriel Movie Theatres" today at the Route 66 Mother Road Museum's grand reopening event in Barstow. Classic car show, food vendors, live music, historical & community organizations, etc. 10am-2pm at the historic Harvey House complex, Casa Del Desierto.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you never watched Cars? (A much-maligned Pixar movie, but one I love for its depiction of the landscape of the south-western US and the mythology of Route 66.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Cars is a pretty okay movie. Haven't seen 2 or 3. But the best thing about Cars is it was the basis for CarsLand/"Route 66" in Disney California Adventure. youtu.be/O1F7cryHV9o?...
neutral · AI labelView post →merchandise and nothing more, especially since most of the Disney stuff I’ve seen through the years at the store where I work is Disney Princesses for girls…and Cars for boys. Cue gigantic eyeroll. However, when the movie reaches the scene in which we catch a glimpse of the glory days of Route 66
neutral · AI labelView post →@willmckinley.bsky.social Music/movie birthday. Bobby Troup 1918-1999. Jazz pianist wrote the song Route 66. Appeared in the 1959 films The Five Pennies, The Gene Krupa Story. Played Dr. Joe Early on the TV series Emergency! with his wife Julie London.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tucumcari MainStreet welcomed director John Paget at the Oct. 3 screening of "Route 66: The Main Street of America" at the historic Odeon Theatre! The film screening was a great way for locals and tourists to celebrate the iconic highway's Centennial. www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2026/1...
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