 And Route 66 had a whole lot going on for it. In 1946, it was a Nat King Cole song. It was named after it. The band Depeche Mode in the 80s redid that song. It had a TV show in the 1960s. John Steinbeck's book, The Grapes of Wrath, called it The Mother Road. The Disney film Cars used Route 66 as the working title when they were making it. How did this get to be so well-known, and what happened to it?