Rund Abdelfatah
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598 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Rund Abdelfatah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She talked about
sitting on the porch with her grandfather and his cronies.
And they'd watch the cars go past on the highway down at the end of the field.
And she said, inevitably, one of those men would say, if I had a nickel, just a nickel, for every car that goes past on this road.
Route 66 was always, always, slavery or not, it was always about money.
Getting people to drive in, get their car serviced, spend the night, eat in the cafes, and leave money behind.
Because there was not much chance
without the highways.
In the early 1930s, Cy Avery stepped away from the highway-making business.
But his dreams stayed alive.
Route 66 kept growing.
And by the end of the decade, the whole thing got paved.
The first U.S.
highway paved all the way west.
In the 40s and 50s, families, now with paid time off, set off on road trips.
And promotional films like this one sold them on every stop along the way.
You can hear how over the course of these decades, Route 66 starts to take on a new identity.
With ad copy that really channels John Steinbeck.
In the late 1950s, another literary giant, Jack Kerouac, left his own stamp on the Great American Road Trip, giving words to the feeling so many others have tried to describe.
Susan says if Cy Avery, the PR campaign, and the Bunyan Derby were what put Route 66 on the map, the people who drove down the road in the decades that followed were the ones who made it mean something.
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