Route 66 Podcast

Anthony Arno

Booking Overview

This is a niche travel-and-heritage interview show focused on Route 66, featuring local business owners, preservationists, historians, artists, transportation figures, and people with firsthand experience along the road. Agencies could credibly pitch Route 66 historians, roadside-business owners, heritage-tourism leaders, automotive experts, artists, and documentary or publishing professionals with relevant expertise; booking difficulty is generally low because the show favors accessible subject-matter guests over mainstream celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 72

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

route66podcast@gmail.com

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Host

Anthony Arno - Anthony Arno is the host of the Route 66 Podcast and presents multimedia programs about the history, people, and changing legacy of Route 66.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Direct experience with Route 66 through historic preservation, roadside business ownership, heritage tourism, automotive history, travel, public infrastructure, art, documentary filmmaking, or firsthand road-trip experience.

Required Achievements:

Operating or preserving a historic Route 66 property or landmark, Conducting significant Route 66 travel or automotive journeys, Writing or producing respected historical books and documentaries, Creating or preserving notable roadside or automobile-related public art, Working for organizations responsible for Route 66 sites and infrastructure

Recent Guest Discussions

Ed Fogle - Driving Historic Route 66 In A Century-old Automobile, Vehicle Breakdowns, Road-trip Preparation, And The Personal Impact Of The Journey.

Dayton Duncan - Horatio Nelson Jackson's 1903 Coast-to-coast Drive, The Origins Of The American Road Trip, Historical Documentation, And The Documentary Horatio's Drive.

Elizabeth Simmons - The History, Preservation, Public Access, And Future Of The Chain Of Rocks Bridge On Route 66.

Connie Echols - Historic Motel Preservation, Route 66 Hospitality, Roadside Businesses, Local Tourism, And The Wagon Wheel Motel's History.

Chip Lord - The Creation And Preservation Of Cadillac Ranch, Ant Farm's Experimental Projects, Public Art, And Automobile-focused Installations.

Recent Topics

Travel, Road Trips, Route 66, Automotive History, Roadside Attractions

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Route 66 Podcast

72. The Green Book: Black travel experiences along Route 66

September 28, 2026

Candacy Taylor was originally writing a Route 66 travel guide for Route 66 when she discovered the unfair treatment of black travelers along The Mother Road. Candacy immediately pivoted and would spend the next five years researching the history of black travel in America, bringing to light that half of the Route 66 communities were "sun down" towns. Join Route 66 podcast host Anthony Arno as he talks with Candacy about the not so popular side of Route 66 during its heyday, including the pop...

71. Driving a 100 year old automobile on Route 66 - Ed Fogle

August 06, 2026

During the centennial year of Route 66 many people will drive historic Route 66. However, Ed Fogle has driven the entire route in a 100 year old Hupmobile, an automobile that stopped production in the 1939. Join the Route 66 Podcast as Ed tells what it was like driving an "orphan" vehicle along Route 66, without any air conditioning, speedometer, odemeter, gas gauge, shocks, and wooden wheels! Highlights from the show include: Earlier memories of driving Route 66 in a '59 convertable locat...

70. Horatio Nelson Jackson: The first person to drive an automobile across America

June 16, 2026

In 1903 a Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric doctor from Vermont, makes a $50 bet that he can be the first person to drive an automobile coast to coast in under 90 days. Despite not even owning a car, having no driving experience, and no road maps to plan the route Jackson heads out within five days of making the wager. The story was first written in the book, Horatio's Drive: America's first road trip, by Dayton Duncan, who would later unite with documentary film maker Ken Burns to create ...

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route66podcast@gmail.com

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