Ruben makes his way to San Bernardino, California, and visits the Historic Original McDonald’s Museum to learn how it got started.
Officially, Route 66 ends at the intersection of Lincoln and Olympic Boulevards in Santa Monica — a stoplight in front of Mel’s Drive-In, about a mile from the water. Federal highway rules in 1936 wouldn’t allow a road to dead-end into the ocean, so that was that.
But nobody stopped at the stoplight.
