An old fire truck outside the Route 66 Car Museum in Springfield, Missouri, through which a portion of the historic two-lane road still zig and zag. Known as the “Mother Road,” Route 66 from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, was the nation’s first all-paved long-distance highway. It got its name at a meeting of highway planners here in Springfield in 1926. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2020.