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Last weekend, I finally saw\u00a0Cars (2006)<\/a>. \u00a0What a good movie! \u00a0I didn\u2019t expect from the big-eyed automobiles that I saw in the toystores that this computer animated flick from Pixar\/Disney would have such lively characters, such a witty script, and such an evocative story. \u00a0One of its themes is the difference between the Interstate sensibility and the Route 66 sensibility. \u00a0(\u201cWell, the road didn\u2019t cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn\u2019t drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

I grew up in a little Oklahoma town right on Route 66. \u00a0And our relatives lived way down that same road, so we did a lot of driving on that mother road. \u00a0In fact, the town where I lived looked a lot like Radiator Springs in the movie. \u00a0The \u201cEAT\u201d cafes, the motels shaped like teepees, the tourist traps, all of those glamorous neon signs, and other imagery from the movie gave me a nostalgia rush. \u00a0(Also the \u201cGhost Light\u201d referenced in the movie would have been the mysterious apparition that occasionally appeared to freaked out motorists known as the \u201cSpook Light,\u201d just 20 miles or so from where we lived. \u00a0(No, I never saw it. \u00a0But we tried, venturing out on some scary drives.) \u00a0Then there was the teenager car culture that went with all of that, trying to turn our junkers into hot rods and dragging main. \u00a0And the road food. (We would never stop at a drive-in on Route 66, though such things had been invented. \u00a0We always stopped at a local restaurant for hour-long-lunches, finishing off with amazing pies.) <\/span>In the words of the song, I got my kicks at Route Six Six.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good movie that can bring all of that back.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"