[HIGHLIGHTS] The melancholy of the last witnesses of Route 66: “There are very few of us left”

Documentary brings together the memories of three elderly people who remember well the glory days of the mythical highway that led to California. Route 66 was called the Main Street of America, and it connected Chicago with Los Angeles along almost 4,000 kilometers.

The documentary Almost Ghosts (Almost Ghosts, on Filmin and Prime Video) was filmed in 2018 by Spanish director Ana Ramón Rubio. The road was planned in the 1920s and was not paved until 1938. Its glory days came in the 1950s that marked architecture. But the infrastructure investments that Eisenhower initiated in that same decade began to replace parts of the route with modern highways.