From Asia Times
''As much as Mad Men
- the best American TV has had to offer in ages -
is retelling the history of the 1960s, 66 keeps
retelling a perpetual trip to glory days past, way
beyond a Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath script,
with special emphasis on the non-stop traffic jam
of the affluent post-war 1950s all the way to its
sedimentation as the symbolic American West
asphalt river.
Yet 66's agony in fact
started way back in 1954, when president Dwight
Eisenhower, extremely impressed with the German
autobahn, created the basis for the interstate
highway system; 66 then became road kill for five
different, efficient, monotonous interstates.''
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