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A car is driven along Oatman Highway, historic Route 66, near Oatman, Ariz., Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)2026-04-08T04:01:48Z ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) There are faster ways to get from Chicago to Los Angeles, but none have the allure or cultural cachet of Route 66.To John Steinbeck, it was the Mother Road that led poor farmers from Dust Bowl desperation to sunny California. To Native Americans along the route, it was an economic boon that also left scars. To Black travelers, it offered sanctuary during segregation. And to music fans, it was the place to get their kicks.Route 66 marks its 100th anniversary this year. Despite losing its status decades ago as one of the nations main arteries, people from around the world still flock to it to take perhaps the quintessential American road trip and soak in its neon lights, kitschy motels and attractions, and culinary offerings.Each town has its own history and magic, said Sebastiaan de Boorder, a Dutch entrepreneur who, with his wife, breathed new life into The Aztec Motel in Seligman, Arizona.Its an essential part of American culture and history, he said of the highway. The historical aspect is just a very big important part of American culture, with its influence and its character. The dream Route 66, which runs for roughly 2,400 miles (3,860 kilometers) from Chicago through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica, California, was stitched together a century ago from a collection of Native American trading routes and old dirt roads with the goal of linking the industrial Midwest to the Pacific coast.Oklahoma businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the Father of Route 66, saw it as more than just a way to cross the country efficiently. It was a chance to connect rural America and create new pockets of commerce. A sign marking the beginning of historic Route 66 stands at the intersection of East Adams Street and South Michigan Avenue, in Chicago, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) A sign marking the beginning of historic Route 66 stands at the intersection of East Adams Street and South Michigan Avenue, in Chicago, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Avery knew the number 66 would be ripe for marketing and could be seared into drivers minds, and he was right: Route 66 has been immortalized in movies, books, including Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath and Jack Kerouacs On the Road, and songs such as Bobby Troups (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66, which served as an anthem for post-World War II optimism and mobility. Waves of migrationSince its November 1926 designation as one of the nations original numbered highways, the onetime Main Street of America has embodied the promise of prosperity. It became a literal path of hope for migrants escaping drought-ravaged farms and poverty during the 1930s Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. And during World War II, it was used to move troops, equipment and workers out West. A car is driven along Oatman Highway, historic Route 66, near Oatman, Ariz., Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) A car is driven along Oatman Highway, historic Route 66, near Oatman, Ariz., Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The postwar boom of the 1940s and 1950s were Route 66s heyday, as it became a popular vacation route. Cars became more affordable, disposable income increased, and people began chasing freedom on the open road. Read More People generally have a sense of adventure, a sense curiosity. And you can find that on Route 66. This is the road of dreams, author and historian Jim Hinckley said. Going mainstream Roadside diners and motels thrived, as crafty entrepreneurs dreamed up ways to part motorists from their money. There were rattlesnake pits, totem poles, trading posts, caverns where Old West outlaws purportedly hung out, and modern engineering marvels like St. Louis gleaming steel arch.Barns were painted with larger-than-life ads, billboards teased local attractions, and neon was everywhere.The cherry on top? The food. A person pulls up to a stoplight in Galena, Kan., Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) A person pulls up to a stoplight in Galena, Kan., Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More An astronaut figure is placed in front of a window opening at Meteor Crater, an attraction near historic Route 66, near Winslow, Ariz., Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) An astronaut figure is placed in front of a window opening at Meteor Crater, an attraction near historic Route 66, near Winslow, Ariz., Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More There were places to grab and go, but also to sit down and relish a slice of home. The Cozy Dog Drive In famous for its breaded hot dogs on a stick has fit both bills since 1949. Inside the dining room in Springfield, Illinois, travelers tell tales of life on the highway.The road wouldnt be alive without the stories of all the places along it that kept it going from town to town, third-generation owner Josh Waldmire said. We just survive off each other. The road feeds us, and as long as we put our feelings and love back into the road, it will reverberate with the travelers and the stories of the people. A divided highwayRoute 66 was an economic boon to the Native American tribes along the way. But although it brought tourists, it also left scars of eminent domain across tribal land and perpetuated stereotypes.More than half of the highway crossed through Indian Country, and vendor signs often made casual references to tipis and feathered headdresses symbols easily appropriated for marketing but not always representative of the distinct cultures found along the route.At Laguna Pueblo west of Albuquerque, restaurants and service stations sprang up, some operated by military veterans from the pueblo who were masters at fixing everything from flat tires to busted radiators. Pueblo women adapted too, turning utilitarian pottery vessels into works of art coveted by tourists. Homemade bread and pies sealed the deal.Laguna leaders have long considered the road or he-ya-nhee in the tribes language of Keres as the corridor of commerce, said businessman and tribal member Ron Solimon. Capitalizing on that potential, the tribe has built a multimillion-dollar empire of casinos, burger stands and other businesses. There were also dangers along the route, particularly during the Jim Crow era, when Black travelers had to rely on guides like the Green Book to find safe lodging and services.Especially for long-distance travel, segregation was a fact of life, said Matthew Pearce, state historian for the Oklahoma Historical Society. And so Black motorists needed to know a safe place to go.The Threatt Filling Station near the central Oklahoma community of Luther wasnt listed in the Green Book, but it did serve as a safe haven between two sundown towns, where people who werent white needed to leave by sunset. The station offered barbecue and even baseball.Edward Threatt, whose grandparents opened the station around 1933, recalled a TV program about travelers getting their kicks on 66. By and large, the Black traveler didnt get a lot of kicks on Route 66, he said. And if they got some kicks, it wasnt the kind you would think of.A new directionPresident Dwight Eisenhowers vision for a modern interstate highway system eventually led to Route 66 being decommissioned as a federal highway in 1985. Some towns along the route died, and it fell to local governments, state historical societies, and private businesses to preserve their sections of the famed road.A driving force was Angel Delgadillo, a barber who lobbied the Arizona Legislature to designate the road as a historic highway. He saved Seligman from turning into a ghost town and set the bar for preservation elsewhere.In New Mexico, original sketches for neon signs have been preserved, Route 66-themed murals abound and developers in Albuquerque have restored motor lodges along the longest urban stretch of the road still intact. A visitor poses for photos with the End of the Trail Route 66 sign on the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) A visitor poses for photos with the End of the Trail Route 66 sign on the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More More than 90% of the road is still drivable in California. Cadillac Ranch in the Texas Panhandle offers the chance to spray-paint half-buried cars. And at the Mississippi River, travelers can walk or bike across the old Chain of Rocks Bridge. More than 250 of the routes buildings, districts and road segments are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)2026-04-08T11:18:49Z WASHINGTON (AP) NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is expected to meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to try to smooth over the presidents anger with the military alliance over the Iran war. Trump had suggested the U.S. may consider leaving the trans-Atlantic alliance after NATO member countries ignored his call to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping waterway, as Iran effectively shut it and sent gas prices soaring. The Republican presidents meeting with Rutte, with whom he had a warm relationship, comes as the U.S. and Iran late Tuesday agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the strait. The nascent ceasefire was struck after Trump said he would strike Irans power plants and bridges, threatening that a whole civilization will die tonight.The plan to reopen the strait is still cloudy and is expected to be a central focus of the Wednesday afternoon meeting with Rutte. The White House said the meeting was expected to be behind closed doors. In the Trump administration, though, that can change at the last minute, and meetings can be opened to the press. Congress in 2023 passed a law that prevents any U.S. president from pulling out of NATO without its approval. Trump has been a longtime critic of NATO and in his first term had suggested he had the authority on his own to leave the alliance, which was founded in 1949 to counter the Cold War threat posed to European security by the Soviet Union. The crux of the commitment its 32 member countries make is a mutual defense agreement in which an attack on one is considered an attack on them all. The only time it has been activated was in 2001, to support the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Read More Despite that, Trump has complained during his war of choice with Iran that NATO has shown it will not be there for the U.S. Ahead of the meeting, Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, issued a statement Tuesday night in support of the alliance, noting that, Following the September 11th attacks, NATO allies sent their young servicemembers to fight and die alongside Americas own in Afghanistan and Iraq. McConnell, who sits on a committee overseeing defense spending, urged Trump to be clear and consistent and said its not in Americas interest to spend more time nursing grudges with allies who share our interests than deterring adversaries who threaten us.If Ruttes meeting does not alleviate Trumps frustrations, its unclear if the Trump administration would challenge the law barring a president from pulling out of NATO. When the law passed, it was championed by Trumps current secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who at the time was a senator from Florida. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. The alliance was already rattled over the past year as Trump returned to power and reduced U.S. military support for Ukraine in the war against Russia and threatened to seize Greenland from ally Denmark.But Trumps badgering of NATO intensified after the Iran war began at the end of February, with the president insisting that securing the Strait of Hormuz was not Americas job but the responsibility of countries that depend on the flow of oil through it. Go to the strait and just take it, Trump said last week.Trump was also angered as NATO allies Spain and France forbade or restricted use of their airspace or joint military facilities for the U.S. in the Iran war. They and other nations, however, agreed to help with an international coalition to open the Strait of Hormuz when the conflict ends. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has been a particular source of Trumps frustration, was set to travel on Wednesday to the Gulf to support the ceasefire. The U.K. has been working on developing a post-conflict security plan for the strait, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman through which about one-fifth of the worlds oil passes.Trump has previously threatened to leave NATO and often said that he would abandon allies who dont spend enough on their military budgets. Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in his recent memoir, said he feared that Trump might walk away from the alliance in 2018, during his first term as president.___Associated Press writer Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report. MICHELLE L. PRICE Price covers the White House. She previously covered the 2024 presidential campaign and politics, government and other news in New York, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. She is based in Washington. twitter mailto

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