Ten For Today: Route 66

George Maharis, Nat King Cole, Joyce Paul, Charley Pride, The Kinks, The Vaselines, The Stray Cats, The Magnetic Fields, Son Volt, AC/DC

On this day in 1960, the great but very strange television show Route 66 premiered, and it ran for four years. There were 116 episodes, and with very few exceptions, THEY WERE SHOT ON LOCATION in the place where they were set. This is very unusual, and I am guessing, very expensive. I wasn’t yet around when it first burst onto the scene, but I was mildl…