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Continue east on Colorado Blvd to Colorado Pl and Santa Anita Park ( GOOGLE MAP ;
tickets 626-574-6366; www.santaanita.com ; 285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia; admission general $5,
clubhouse $10, under 17yr free; racing season Christmas-mid-Apr, late Sep-early Nov, tram tours
8:30am & 9:45am Sat & Sun) , where the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races was filmed and
legendary thoroughbred Seabiscuit ran. During the live-racing season, free tram tours take
you behind the scenes into the jockeys' room and training areas; weekends only, reserva-
tions required.
Colorado Pl turns into Huntington Dr E, which you'll follow to 2nd Ave, where you turn
north, then east on Foothill Blvd. This older alignment of Route 66 follows Foothill Blvd
through Monrovia, home of the 1925 Mayan Revival-style architecture of the allegedly
haunted Aztec Hotel ( 626-358-3231; 311 W Foothill Blvd, Monrovia) .
Continue east on W Foothill Blvd, then jog south on S Myrtle Ave and hook a left on E
Huntington Dr through Duarte, which puts on a Route 66 parade ( ht-
tp://duarteroute66parade.com ; September) , with boisterous marching bands, old-fashioned
carnival games and a classic-car show. In Azusa, Huntington turns into E Foothill Blvd,
which becomes Alosta Blvd in Glendora where The Hat (
626-857-0017; www.thehat.com ;
611 W Route 66, Glendora; mains $4-8;
10am-11pm Sun-Wed, to 1am Thu-Sat;
) has made
piled-high pastrami sandwiches since 1951.
Continue east on Foothill Blvd, where two campily retro steakhouses await in Rancho
Cucamonga. First up is the 1955 Magic Lamp Inn ( 909-981-8659;
www.themagiclampinn.com ; 8189 Foothill Blvd, Rancho Cucamonga; mains lunch $11-17, dinner
$15-42; 11:30am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-11pm Tue-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri & Sat, 4-9pm Sun) , easily recog-
nized by its fabulous neon sign. There's dancing Wednesday through Saturday nights. Up
the road, the rustic Sycamore Inn ( 909-982-1104; www.thesycamoreinn.com ; 8318 Foothill
Blvd, Rancho Cucamonga; mains $22-49; 5-9pm Mon-Thu, to 10pm Fri & Sat, 4-8:30pm Sun) has
been dishing up juicy steaks since 1848.
Cruising on through Fontana, birthplace of the notorious Hells Angels biker club, you'll
see the now-boarded-up Giant Orange (15395 Foothill Blvd, Fontana; no public entry) , a
1920s juice stand of the kind that was once a fixture alongside SoCal's citrus groves.
Foothill Blvd continues on to Rialto where you'll find the Wigwam Motel (
GOOGLE MAP ; 909-875-3005; www.wigwammotel.com ; 2728 W Foothill Blvd, Rialto; r $65-80;
) , whose kooky concrete faux-tepees date from 1949. Continue east, then head north on N
East St to the unofficial First McDonald's Museum ( GOOGLE MAP ;
909-885-6324;
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