Jon Fasman
speaker
573 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The Economist.
That was Alita Stowe, who volunteers as a guide at the U Drop In in Shamrock, Texas.
The U-Drop In is a restored gas station and diner.
It's a beautifully proportioned, low brick building with some art deco touches.
And it might look familiar to fans of Pixar films.
It was the model for Ramon's house of body art in the film Cars, which had a huge impact on Route 66.
But first, let Olita tell you about what happened to Shamrock starting in nineteen seventy-four when the interstate arrived.
Eighty three.
When you say a dive, what does that mean?
What did it feel like?
She's right that you can go much faster on interstates.
Route 66 is picturesque because it's Main Street in so many small towns.
But you can't drive down Main Street like a bat out of hell.
Congress allocated money for a new system of high-speed interstate highways in 1956.
I-40, which runs from Wilmington, North Carolina to Barstow, California, functionally replaced much of Route 66.
By 1970, another pair of highways running from Chicago to Oklahoma City via St.
Louis replaced most of the rest.
It didn't physically replace the road, of course, it just made Route 66 slower and less convenient.
I spent hundreds of miles driving a windy two-lane road next to the interstate, watching cars pass by at double my speed.
When those drivers needed to eat or fill their fuel tanks, there were rest stops right off the interstate.
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