Route 66 On the Air!
7-15 September 2002
Westside Amateur Radio Club of Los Angeles

Along the Route...
Through West LA and
Santa Monica

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Dolores is one of the few remaining Route 66 vintage restaurants in
in West Los Angeles.  Coincidentally, a number of the WARC members often meet at Dolores for meal prior to the monthly club meeting held nearby at the Red Cross Facility in Westwood.  

Route 66 Kick-off dinner, September 6, at Dolores Restaurant with operators from K6L and K6M.  Clockwise from front left: N6HY, K0GI, K0OE, AA6IR, W6KC, K6FBI, KF6VQQ, KF6PIH, AC6AJ, W7RF and K6LMN.


The classic art deco Georgian Hotel was built in 1933.  It's located on Ocean Blvd just across the street at  the end of Route 66.  




Santa Monica's landmark pier is located just two block south 
of the official end of Route 66.



A brass plaque marks the official end of Route 66, the "Main Street of America," also remembered as the "Will Rogers Highway," one of many names the old road earned in its half-century of existence. The monument observes that Route 66 had also been called the Will Rogers highway in honor of the famed humorist and noted citizen of the world, who first left his home in Claremore, Oklahoma via Route 66. Rogers lived out his last years on a comfortable ranch (now the Will Rogers State Park) only a few miles to the north of the monument site.