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How Route 66 got its kicks

Here & Now by WBUR

May 29, 202619:33Society & Culture

Route 66, known as “America’s Main Street” is not the longest or most-travelled American highway. Fully paved in the 1930s, it became a Depression-era migration route for poor farming families fleeing the Dust Bowl for a...

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How Route 66 got its kicks is an episode from Here & Now by WBUR. Route 66, known as “America’s Main Street” is not the longest or most-travelled American highway. Fully paved in the 1930s, it became a Depression-era migration route for poo...

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Published May 29, 2026, 19:33 long, audio available.