Museum & Gallery
The HOME 66 is also a small art gallery, presenting the works of recognized American photographers, graphic designers and artists creating their artworks on Route 66. These artists exclusively provided some of their works for our purpose, and thus significantly contributed to the promotion of Route 66 in Europe.
HOME 66 is also the basis for the planned European Route 66 Museum, which is being built with the support of official U.S. Route 66 organizations and individuals.
JIM HINCKLEY
Jim Hinckley was born in North Carolina but he is a product of the desert southwest with its vast, panoramic landscapes where spires of weathered stone cast long shadows under cloudless skies. For more than forty years he has explored its hidden places, hungered for its colorful history, wandered Route 66 across the deserts of New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and sought the road less traveled across the stark plains.
These adventures and a fascination for the history or America's most famous highway, as well as the automobiles that traveled it are the foundational elements of his published work. This includes more than one thousand feature articles for various magazines and newspapers, and eight books.
In addition, he and his wife are also photographers with a lengthy and colorful resume of work appearing in magazines and books, on corporate websites, in a wide array of promotional material, and in their gallery at the Brunswick Hotel in Kingman, Arizona
JERRY McCLANNAHAN
Award winning author, photographer and artist Jerry McClanahan began documenting Route 66 in 1981. His acclaimed EZ 66 Guide has helped thousands of travelers discover Route 66 since 2005. Jerry also paints Route 66 scenes, having established McJerry’s Route 66 Gallery (www.mcjerry66.com) in Chandler, Oklahoma, where he enjoys meeting with tourists from all over the world.
JIM ROSS
Route 66 authority Jim Ross is a writer, photographer, preservationist, and highway historian whose photographs and articles have appeared in dozens of books and periodicals.
He is the author of Oklahoma Route 66, co-author of Roadside USA, co-creator of the Route 66 Map Series, and co-author of Route 66 Sightings. He is a recipient of the John Steinbeck Award, the Will Rogers Award, and the Wallis Award. He is also an Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame inductee.
CHRIS ROBLESKI
Christopher Robleski is an American Photographer who loves to travel the back roads of the United States in search of history and culture.
Along the way he finds and captures abandoned structures before they collapse back into the earth. There is no computer-manipulation used in his photographs. Chris ventures out into the dark of night. He uses the full moon to expose the outside and colored flashes to light the inside of buildings and cars. Every location is an adventure and every photograph is a unique glimpse at places long forgotten.
FRANK GIFFORD
Frank Gifford began exploring the Mother Road and related interests after the year 2000.
In a video-dominated world where images jump, twitch and jiggle (but almost never linger) he prefers a still photograph that provides a License to Stare.
19 of the Mother Road images are also at the Route 66 Interpretive Center in Chandler OK.Rt 66 Pix makes for a convenient trade name (and a snappy URL) but the actual scope of the site is much broader. Perhaps one-third of the images were taken elsewhere. Separate galleries are devoted to artistic blur, street photography and other interests.
KEN THE LANDRUNNER TURMEL
Ken Turmel was dubbed as "The Landrunner" over 20 years ago. He was born directly on Route 66 at Saint John's Hospital on Santa Monica Blvd. in California.
Ken has been traveling on Route 66 each and every year to date since 1959. He is the creator of "Route 66 and More", which is the first and only official Route 66 Historic Postmark Document which he hand carried city to city during a two year adventure along the entire length of the Mother Road from Chicago to Los Angeles.
BOB CROCODILE LILE
Bob "Crocodile" Lile resides in Amarillo, Texas where he operates Lile Art Gallery, 2719 SW 6th Avenue (Old Route 66).
Croc has traveled Route 66 many times and been involved in the preservation, restoration and promotion of Route 66 since 1996 and gives tours of Route 66 in the Amarillo area. One of his greatest joys is spending time with travelers from all over the globe.
Lile Art Gallery & Bob Lile are both on Facebook. Official web pages: www.crocodilelile.com, email: crocodilelile@live.com.