Route 66 rumble strip

[J-BAR #18287]

Route 66 construction began in Springfield, Missouri in  November 1926, proceding eastward to Chicago and westward to Santa Monica, so there are some celebratory things in Springfield this year recognizing the 100th anniversary of this historic highway.

 

A rumble strip has been laid down on St. Louis street in downtown Springfield.  It plays a bit of "America The Beautiful" when you run your tires over it at 30 mph.

 

My speed control was not perfect, but you can get the idea.

 

 

 

[watab kid]

have an acquaintance here who intends to take his son on an extended run of route 66 this summer in their convertible - i see the allure but im not sure id spend the time and money on that  unless i owned a vintage vette - ill never be that guy , just have no interest , couple other friends do and they own the vettes but dont see the interest in route 66 either , 

 

there is a highway that crossed the country that i would find more interesting - route 30 ,i have my reasons rooted in personal history , but its not as famous as route 66 , yet i think it saw every bit as much traffic - it was called the lincoln highway , 

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

Route 66 is a bit of Americana that we will never see again.

 

When an independent diner, gas station, barber shop, tire store or motel could simply appear next to the road and thrive.

 

When the journey was part of the destination and "getting there is half the fun".

 

Those moments have been replaced with GPS guided cars in sealed closed air cocoons blasting satellite radio along featureless slabs of mind numbing asphalt and corporate hive mind offerings.

 

Painted Lady and I just took a short jaunt along Route 66 in Arizona a couple weeks back.

Hackberry General Store 

Dolan Springs on the way to Route 66

[El Chapo]

Love the rumble strip.  I have this dream of building up an old car, probably a wagon so we can take the dogs, and doing the whole thing.  It's a bucket list thing for me.

[Pat Riot]

That is really cool, @J-BAR #18287, thank you. 
 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Schoolmarm and I rode Route 66 from the Missouri/Illinois border to Clinton, Oklahoma and the Route 66 museum there.

 

Would have ridden further, but I was having back issues and we had to cut the trip short.

 

I had major surgery on my back when we got home, but we never got to finish the run!! We did get to visit the Will Rogers museum and the J. M. Davis museum in Cleremont, Oklahoma and spent two days at the Cowboy Museum in OKC.

 

There were numerous other places that we visited, but I don’t recall the names so much as the sites and scenery.

 

I’ve driven every mile to 66 that still exists at one time or another and ridden much of it on motorcycles as well!

 

The only Corvette that I owned wasn’t suitable for highway use!

 

 

[Jimmy Reb, SASS #54804]

8 hours ago, watab kid said:

 

 

there is a highway that crossed the country that i would find more interesting - route 30 ,i have my reasons rooted in personal history , but its not as famous as route 66 , yet i think it saw every bit as much traffic - it was called the lincoln highway , 

Rt 30 follows an older route. It basically follow the Linclon highway.

I believe that was the first transcontinenal auto route. The Lincoln highway roughly followed the original transcon railroad rt of 1866-1869.

[Windy City Kid]

Growing up, I lived 100 feet from Route 66 (Ogden Ave in Cicero IL). We had one of those muffler giants holding a hot dog (Bunyun's) down the street, as well as a bunch of kitchy places. Driving Route 66 from the start at Michigan Ave to Santa Monica is a dream of mine (I know parts are inaccessible). Oh for simpler days. 

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

KY3 just did an article about the rumble strip.

Many folks close to its location are not pleased about hearing it constantly, day after day.

Can't say I blame them.....

[Stump Water]

10 hours ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Route 66 is a bit of Americana that we will never see again.

 

When an independent diner, gas station, barber shop, tire store or motel could simply appear next to the road and thrive.

 

And byways all across the US.

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

18 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

 

And byways all across the US.

There is nothing like a back road, road trip.  

 

When your memories of a trip are just as much the things you saw, stopped at or experienced along the way as they are of the destination - you've accomplished something.

 

Bottle farms, greasy spoon diners, stained wooden floor hardware stores with a gun section tucked away in the rear.

 

Indian trading posts and tourist trap roadside attractions, alpaca farms and A&W root beer stands.

 

Old men in bib overalls sitting in faded webbed lawn chairs just waving at traffic as you roll by.

 

Five and Dime stores with tables on the sidewalk and gas station air hoses that dinged when you pulled over them.

 

Museums celebrating an areas forgotten  heritage with dusty relics behind smudged glass and fading description tags - and getting the "real" story from someone who grew up there.

 

Painted Lady and I spend a lot of time on our Spyder still looking for these things.

 

 

[ShadowCatcher]

J-Bar, Creeker, thanks for sharing those great pictures.  My wife and I have been talking of making the trip top to bottom one day soon,

it's the ultimate road trip in the U.S. as far as we're concerned.  The big debate for us is do we fly to Chicago and rent a car, switching

every few states, or drive to Chicago, do the road, then north to the Olympic peninsula (adding several thousand miles total)  Rental cars

aren't cheap, so we have yet to model it out in a spread sheet, but soon, very soon.

 

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/travelroute66/index.htm

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

16 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Route 66 construction began in Springfield, Missouri in  November 1926, proceding eastward to Chicago and westward to Santa Monica, so there are some celebratory things in Springfield this year recognizing the 100th anniversary of this historic highway.

 

A rumble strip has been laid down on St. Louis street in downtown Springfield.  It plays a bit of "America The Beautiful" when you run your tires over it at 30 mph.

 

My speed control was not perfect, but you can get the idea.

 

 

 

Now that’s some clever engineering! 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

"Musical" rumble strips... there's one outside of Palmdale, california, honoring the late R. Lee Ermey, who had been a local resident for some twenty four years or so.   

 

 

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Amazing!🤩 Thanks 

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

29 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

"Musical" rumble strips... there's one outside of Palmdale, california, honoring the late R. Lee Ermey, who had been a local resident for some twenty four years or so.   

 

 

 

 

On West Ave. N in west Palmdale.

[J-BAR #18287]

36 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

"Musical" rumble strips... there's one outside of Palmdale, california, honoring the late R. Lee Ermey, who had been a local resident for some twenty four years or so.   

 

 

 

 

My wife, who is not easily impressed, just said, "That's awesome!"

 

Naturally, I agree!

[watab kid]

13 hours ago, Jimmy Reb, SASS #54804 said:

Rt 30 follows an older route. It basically follow the Linclon highway.

I believe that was the first transcontinenal auto route. The Lincoln highway roughly followed the original transcon railroad rt of 1866-1869.

yes it did , my family has railroad roots and when i was in college i lived right on it , by the 70s it was nothing more than main street but there was a time when it meant something , in 1941 ir was the rought my father ands his best friend returned home after pearl to enlist , it was a two llane highway in iowa back then - it was four lanes through town when i was in school but the interstate that eisenhower built was the premier transpotrt rout then , I-80 was 30 miles south and few new what the incoln highway was by then other than the street was called  'lincoln way' , very few in town knew its significance - but i did , 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

On 6/11/2026 at 11:25 PM, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Route 66 is a bit of Americana that we will never see again.

 

When an independent diner, gas station, barber shop, tire store or motel could simply appear next to the road and thrive.

 

When the journey was part of the destination and "getting there is half the fun".

 

Those moments have been replaced with GPS guided cars in sealed closed air cocoons blasting satellite radio along featureless slabs of mind numbing asphalt and corporate hive mind offerings.

 

Painted Lady and I just took a short jaunt along Route 66 in Arizona a couple weeks back.

Hackberry General Store 

Dolan Springs on the way to Route 66

 

 

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