Arizona Podcast

“Arizona Podcast” shares the adventures of Chris and Mary who journey the highways and backroads of the Grand Canyon state. Their focus on the Mother Road, Route 66, leads them to popular tourist locations as well as many hidden gems across State 48. They hope their podcasts help others in discovering what Arizona has to offer. The events, people, places, food and music are endless. Special features include ”The Mother Road Minute” and ”Live From The Main Street Of America”.

Arizona Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #5

  The Crown Jewels of the Mother Road | Arizona Route 66: The Podcast | Season 4 Episode 5

  Aug 15, 202627 minS4

  Before Route 66 existed, Fred Harvey was already building something extraordinary along the Santa Fe Railroad corridor through Arizona. Hotels and restaurants that didn't just feed travelers, they made them feel like they mattered. And the young women he hired to run those dining rooms came west, stayed, and built the communities that Route 66 would later run right through. This episode is the story of the Harvey Houses. The ones that survived and the ones that didn't. The Harvey Girls who signed contracts, put on black and white uniforms, and showed up to a part of the country that was still being figured out. Mary Colter, the architect who designed La Posada in Winslow and called it her masterpiece. And the Hopi artist Fred Kabotie whose murals still cover the walls of the Painted Desert Inn inside Petrified Forest National Park. From El Garces in Needles, the crown jewel of the entire Harvey chain, to La Posada in Winslow, the only Harvey railroad hotel still in operation on Historic Route 66, we walk the Arizona stretch town by town and look at what Fred Harvey built here, what happened to it, and what's still standing. In 2026 Route 66 turns one hundred years old. Fred Harvey's first restaurant opened one hundred and fifty years ago. The two stories ran together for the better part of half a century and left marks on the Arizona landscape you can still find today if you know where to look. New episodes of Arizona Route 66: The Podcast release regularly at arizonapodcast.com. ️ Arizona Route 66: The Podcast is produced by Table 66 Productions and hosted by Chris and Mary Tuttle, semi-retired Chaplains traveling the Main Street of America. #route66 #arizonapodcast #motherroad #route66centennial #harveyhouses #harveygirls #lapasada

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  Episode #4

  The Towns That Refused to Die | Arizona Route 66: The Podcast | Season 4 Episode 4

  Jul 14, 202626 minS4

  When the interstate came it didn't just move the traffic. It made a decision about which towns mattered and which ones didn't. Most of the towns that got bypassed didn't make it. The diners closed. The motor courts went dark. The desert moved in and started taking things back one wall at a time. But not all of them went quietly. This episode tells the story of four towns on the Route 66 corridor that by every reasonable measure should have folded when the interstate came. Seligman, where a barber named Angel Delgadillo refused to let the road die and started a preservation movement that changed Route 66 forever. Hackberry, where an artist found a forgotten general store and something worth saving showed up right behind him. Amboy, California, the ghost town that ain't dead yet, where a father bought an entire town because he believed it was worth saving and a son kept the lights on after him. And Two Guns, the town that didn't survive but left a story too strange and too human to forget. Four towns. Four different outcomes. And one thread running through all of them. In every case what made the difference wasn't a government program or a corporate investment. It was a person who decided a place still mattered when everything else said it didn't. In 2026 Route 66 turns one hundred years old. The towns that held on are the reason there's something worth celebrating. This is their story. New episodes of Arizona Route 66: The Podcast release regularly at arizonapodcast.com. 🎙️ Arizona Route 66: The Podcast is produced by Table 66 Productions and hosted by Chris and Mary Tuttle, semi-retired Chaplains traveling the Main Street of America. #route66 #arizonapodcast #motherroad #route66centennial

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  Episode #3

  The Road Nobody Wanted to Build | Arizona Route 66: The Podcast | Season 4, Episode 3

  Jun 15, 202612 minS4

  Route 66 feels inevitable when you're driving it today. Like someone looked at a map, drew the obvious line from Chicago to Los Angeles, and said yes, that one. But that's not what happened. The road was fought over before it existed. The number was chosen because it rolled off the tongue. The path was chosen for commerce and politics. And when Arizona's stretch was officially established in 1926, the state didn't finish paving it for another twelve years. The people who drove it in those early years weren't driving a finished highway. They were driving a promise. This episode tells the real story of how Arizona's stretch of Route 66 almost didn't happen. The political fights before the first mile was ever laid. The grades through the Black Mountains that broke down cars and tested everyone who attempted them. The money that was never enough. The terrain that pushed back hard at every turn. And the gap between what was promised on paper and what drivers actually found when they got here. In 2026 the road turns one hundred years old. Arizona holds the longest continuous drivable stretch of original Route 66 in the nation. This is the story of how it got here. New episodes of Arizona Route 66: The Podcast release regularly at arizonapodcast.com. 🎙️ Arizona Route 66: The Podcast is produced by Table 66 Productions and hosted by Chris and Mary Tuttle, semi-retired Chaplains traveling the Main Street of America. #route66 #arizonapodcast #motherroad #route66centennial

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  Episode #2

  The Road That Was Never Supposed to Be Famous | Arizona Route 66: The Podcast | Season 4 Episode 2

  May 15, 202614 minS4

  Route 66 was not designed to be legendary. It was designed to move farm goods, connect small towns to bigger markets, and serve the interests of the people who helped lay it out. The number was chosen because it rolled off the tongue. The path was chosen for commerce and politics. And when it was officially established in 1926, Arizona did not even finish paving its stretch for another twelve years. So how does a dirt road with a number become the most beloved highway in the world? This episode tells the full story. From Cyrus Avery's political maneuvering in 1926, to the Dust Bowl families who depended on it with their lives, to the complicated truth about who the road welcomed and who it did not. From Bobby Troup writing a song on a drive west, to the afternoon in 1978 when the traffic through Seligman simply stopped. From the day Route 66 was officially decertified in 1985, to the barber in Seligman who refused to let it stay dead. In 2026, the road turns one hundred years old. Arizona holds the longest continuous drivable stretch in the nation. And the communities along it are not just surviving the centennial. They are building toward it. This is the story of how that happened. Not the bumper sticker version. The real one. New episodes of Arizona Route 66: The Podcast release regularly at arizonapodcast.com. 🎙️ Arizona Route 66: The Podcast is produced by Table 66 Productions and hosted by Christopher and Mary Tuttle, semi-retired Chaplains traveling the Main Street of America. #route66 #arizonapodcast #motherroad #route66centennial

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  Episode #1

  What Makes Arizona the Playground of Route 66? | Arizona Route 66: The Podcast | Season 4, Episode 1

  Apr 26, 202626 minS4

  <p>What Makes Arizona the Playground of Route 66? That's not a rhetorical question. It's 385.2 miles of answer.</p><p>Chris and Mary Tuttle are back on the Mother Road for Season 4, and they are driving the whole thing , New Mexico border to the Colorado River, east to west, the way it was meant to be traveled. </p><p>Nineteen towns. A meteor crater that trained the Apollo astronauts. Wild donkeys with their own main street. The longest continuous stretch of original Route 66 still in existence. And a road that turns one hundred years old in 2026 with everything still left to...

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