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Mar 15, 2022 · In a time of misogyny and limited opportunities, Route 66 offered women a chance to make their mark on the American experience. In the summer of 1934, 24-year-old hairdresser Darlene Dorgan and four friends embarked on an epic journey that would last almost a decade. The young women, nicknamed the "Gypsy Coeds," took off from Bradford, Illinois ...
Love American History? Watch the documentary series Route 66: The Untold Story of Women on the Mother Road to explore how women overcame gender discrimination and segregation on America's most beloved road.
- She Got Her Licks on Route 66
- The Green Book and Safe Passage
- The Women Behind Monrovia’s Strawberry King
- The Mitla Café Story
- The Chicken Boy
- We Drove Through Cities and Towns
Cynthia Troup, the spouse of Bobby Troup. The two traveled from Pennsylvania to California, taking Route 40 and then Route 66 in their 1941 Buick across Route 66. The trip inspired Bobby to write a song. He originally was going to write a tune about Route 40, but Cynthia suggested the title "Get Your Kicks on Route 66". Despite her contributions, C...
Documentarian Candacy Taylor, who authored "Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America", described Victor H. Green’s "Negro Travelers’ Green Book" in the second clip shown at the Petersen. Taylor described the Green Book’s historic role in identifying hotels, gas stations, drug stores, barbershops and other commerc...
Keiko Sakatani, granddaughter of Yutaka Uyeda, Monrovia’s Strawberry King, told the story about how her family grew and sold strawberries along Route 66 on Huntington Drive. After the film clip, Sakatani took to the stage, along with Pasadena City College Associate Professor and LACar writer Susie Ling. Professor Ling asked Sakatani about the early...
The story behind San Bernardino’s Mitla Café was told in the Katrina Parks film by Irene Montanyo, the daughter-in-law of its founder, Lucia Rodriquez, and by Patty Oquendo, her granddaughter. "She brought her daughters to work with her to help, so it was all women", said Oquendo. The Mitla Café on Route 66 in San Bernardino thrived, particularly i...
Perhaps the wildest presentation of the evening was of the famed Route 66 landmark, Chicken Boy, and the efforts by book designer and graphic artist Amy Inouye to save and ultimately preserve the Chicken Boy. Inouye took to the stage after the film clip to share more stories about the iconic landmark on Figueroa Street in Highland Park.
One of the more touching moments of the evening came when Keiko Sakatani read Steve Garnaas-Holmes’Stories from Unfolding Light. Sakatani thought it reflected perfectly the untold stories of Route 66 when Garnaas-Holmes wrote, "We drove through cities and towns… Each house a story. So many stories… The people we saw - the people you pass by - every...
Meet Fabiola, Alberta, and Marilyn, a few of these incredible women whose stories and influence on Route 66 is being captured. In 1894, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca was born to a ranching family in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Jun 30, 2016 · Founded by filmmaker Katrina Parks, the oral history project seeks to gather the stories of the females who lived and worked along Route 66, just like the many male travelers whose stories have...
Sep 6, 2018 · Etched in the Mother Road are the stories of the fascinating women of Route 66 who paved their own path along the 2400 mile stretch of road during its broken history. Women of the past and the present, each of them blazing their own trail along America’s first freeway.
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Mar 29, 2022 · From Pueblo women opening up roadside stands in New Mexico to an African American hotelier in Springfield, MO listed in the Green Book, women overcame segregation and gender discrimination to succeed on Route 66.
