...Joad family out of rain-starved Oklahoma and down Highway 66 to southern California. He wrote that "66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from...from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership . . . they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country...

...'s house very slowly lifts up out of sight behind the truck.) MAN WITH GUITAR. (Singing.) Sixty-Six is the path of a people in flight Refugees from dust and shrinking land From the thunder of tractors From the twisting winds That howl up out of Texas From the floods And the twisting winds (The truck...

...mountains again and into the rich California valleys. 66 is the path of people in flight, refugees from the dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up and out of Texas, from the floods...

...came in 1985 when crews removed the last Highway 66 road signs. "The Road of Flight" "Route 66 was the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust...thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods...

...Okies, joining the Joads to chase hope down Highway 66, "the mother road, the road of flight . . . the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust...and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors." 4 On any given day in the '30s, two million refugees were roaming the country, riding the rods, hitching...

...and across the desert to the mountains again, and into the rich California valleys." Steinbeck wrote: "66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight." In 1946, an American songwriter and his wife drove across...

...Super Six sedan, and struggling to cross the dry plains, desert, and mountains to reach California. "66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from...the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership," wrote Steinbeck, "they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted...

...The Grapes of Wrath gave the road one of its more popular names: The Mother Road. Steinbeck wrote, "66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from...thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods...

...deprivations many experienced in the southern plains and elsewhere, as John Steinbeck aptly describes: 66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from...thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods...

...again, and into the rich California valleys. 66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from the dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods...