‘Get your kicks on Route 66′
Mar 26th, 2008 by Malcolm Bowditch
On Tuesday 25th March we were all invited to get our ‘kicks on route 66’ when Jacky and Mike Smith took turns to give their very entertaining, slide-illustrated talk on the iconic, but now relatively little used, North American highway from Chicago through eight states to the Pacific coast at Santa Monica in California. Even though many of us have never travelled this road, we most of us felt a sense of nostalgia as the names and images of towns, made familiar in the popular western culture of the middle of the last century, were displayed and described. The last time we got our kicks with Jacky and Mike, we enjoyed their presentation on ‘The Tarrant valley’, a title which tripped off the tongue and made much more sense locally perhaps than ’Get your kicks on, and adjacent to, the B3082’.
Malcolm Bowditch
