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California Route 66's 12 Most Endangered List
On the heels of similar recognition in June by the World Heritage Fund listing Route 66 as one of the 100 most endangered resources in the world, the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation (CART66PF) has developed its own list of twelve corridor resources in significant jeopardy of being altered, destroyed or forgotten.
The Route 66 corridor in California has a large number of fragile landmarks for which CART66PF is concerned with. Their list signifies the 12 primary objectives they are focusing on this year.
For more expansive information on these historic facilities and structures you can contact Glen Duncan.at (323) 344-8430 or click the link below.
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The Route 66 Preservation Foundation is committed to promoting the Mother Road and preserving what's left of old Route 66. Starting out as the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation it was soon realized that the scope of preservation was larger than any one state. To help preserve the Mother Road all eight states needed to be involved. The Route 66 Preservation Foundation was formed to address this. Jim Conkle, executive director of the foundation has been traveling the road, promoting, advising and bringing a new awareness to our national treasure. Over the past few years the foundation has been involved with Hampton Inn’s Save-A-Landmark Project and the Route 66 Caravan of 2003. In conjunction with the caravan and Route 66 Corridor Act members of the foundation have traveled to Washington D.C. on more than one occasion to lobby for Route 66. Jim Conkle and the foundation has also assisted in certain Route 66 events over the years. He worked with the city of Flagstaff, Arizona to help organize and promote the new Route 66 Days Festival. In 2006 the foundation took over the responsibility for the Steinbeck Awards and Route 66 Festival from the National Route 66 Federation. The awards were changed to the Will Rogers Awards with the first festival being held in Albuquerque in June 2006. The 2007 Festival and awards banquet is scheduled for Clinton, Oklahoma. There are many new projects lined up for the coming years.
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Jim Conkle and fellow concerned preservationists have travelled to Washington DC on more than one occasion to meet with members of Congress, the National Park Service and the Department of Interior to show the support for the preservation of Route 66 by the American people.
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Author Glen Duncan, with the help of Jim Conkle of the Route 66 Preservation Foundation, has compiled this tour along California's part of the two-lane corridor that Will Rogers called "Main Street America." With fascinating archival photographs gathered from many museum, library, and government collections, and current images of what still exists, they have created a mosaic of transportation, tourism, and wayside heritage along a blacktop ribbon that has been seminal to the American idea of "the road."
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Ron Warnick, though not directly affiliated with the Route 66 Preservation Foundation, is a true friend of the Mother Road. He lives in Tulsa, Okla., where he is involved with the Oklahoma Route 66 Association and holds memberships in several other state Route 66 organizations. He and his wife have participated in Route 66 preservation projects from northern Illinois to the Texas Panhandle. He's driven the road's full 2,200-mile length at least three times. Why re-invent the wheel? Ron's Route 66 News web site is the most current source for what's happening on Route 66 with blogs, events, preservation alerts and current news involving the Mother Road. Stay informed with Route 66 News.
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