According to the information with the video, this is a student film shot at Dry Creek Station on old Route 66 east of Barstow, Calif. It’s not an earth-shattering story, but it serves to show the value of slowing down and thinking about things — a Mother Road attribute if there ever was one.

Incidentally, it’s fairly obvious from its design that Dry Creek Station was a former member of mostly vanished Whiting Bros. chain.

Here on this version of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66,” you get not one, but two talented guitar-slingers in Popa Chubby (the bald, portly one) and Arthur Neilson.

Great stuff.

If you like football and the Mother Road, the Oklahoma Route 66 Association has an event for you.

The Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz of the Arena Football 2 league, along with POPS in nearby Arcadia, are hosting a Route 66 Night on April 27.

Association members can purchase tickets for $5 off. Members can buy their tickets by calling the Yard Dawgz at 405-228-3294. Callers will need to ask for Ryan and let him know they are part of the Route 66 group.

For Route 66 Night, the Yard Dawgs host the Austin Wranglers at Oklahoma City’s Ford Center at 3:05 p.m. Fan activities outside the venue start at 1:05 p.m. that day.

If you want to join the association, go here or call Marilyn at 405-258-0008.

There’s an excellent article in the Daily Oklahoman about Larry Nance, a photographer based in El Reno, and the impact he’s making with local preservationists.

It’s advisable to read the whole thing. But the gist is that Nance as a child suffered from epilepsy, and was unable to stay at Route 66 landmarks such as the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Ariz., during family vacations because problems with his seizures.

Nance was cured of his epilepsy in his early teens. As an adult, he opened a photography business in El Reno. In 2005, he rekindled his interest in Route 66 and decided to cruise the road westward in his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He finally got to stay at the Wigwam Motel, and along the way he documented the Mother Road with his camera.

Back at home, his images made an impression on the local movers and shakers:

Nance has shown his work to El Reno’s Main Street Inc., and city officials who have embarked on a preservation plan. His pictures are helping planners brainstorm and see what projects are possible. Seeing what has worked out-of-state is important, he said.

“If I don’t share this with the next generation, it will be lost,” Nance said.

Codie Lee Finnigan, tourism director of the El Reno Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Nance’s photography is important to the city.

“It’s my guess that he will be heavily involved in the future plans for Route 66 in El Reno,” Finnigan said. “El Reno is really just getting on that path.”

Nance said his next plan is for a Route 66 trip to Chicago, so that more pictures can reach more preservation committees. He said he thinks a revitalization of Route 66 in Oklahoma is attainable.

“We have to strive to get it restored with as much authenticity as possible,” Nance said. “That is one of my missions. I would like to bring back that nostalgia.”

Godspeed, Mr. Nance.