Route 66 Centennial Hats

U.S. Route 66 turned 100 on November 11, 1926, and 2026 carries a full centennial calendar: USPS centennial Forever stamps, a Google Doodle, and celebrations the length of the eight states the road still crosses, from Chicago to Santa Monica. That is a hard date with national coverage, but the road's souvenir market was never seasonal to begin with, so these hats are built to outlast the party. The badges name the road the way the shield signs do - ROUTE 66, HISTORIC ROUTE 66 - while the sentence designs carry its folklore. THE MOTHER ROAD is the nickname truckers and travel writers gave it decades before anyone called it historic. I GET MY KICKS ON ROUTE 66 borrows the most-recorded line about the highway and puts it in the driver's own mouth. CHICAGO TO SANTA MONICA states the run point to point, and I DROVE ALL 2,448 MILES OF ROUTE 66 turns the mileage into a bragging right. ROUTE 66 BECAUSE THE INTERSTATE HAS NO SOUL and I BRAKE FOR ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS are the two-lane loyalist's grievance against the interstates that bypassed this road, and ROUTE 66 CENTENNIAL 1926-2026 dates the collection plainly. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The two strongest lines, THE MOTHER ROAD and I GET MY KICKS ON ROUTE 66, each get a second colorway.