LORECAST — ROUTE 66: A CENTURY OF STORIES
Editorial preview · Collection premieres November 11, 2026

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Twelve places. A hundred years. Lorecast's forthcoming Route 66 Centennial
collection brings short, source-linked audio stories from Chicago to Santa Monica
to listeners wherever they are.

EDITORIAL DESCRIPTION
A motel designed around the automobile. A cafe rebuilt after a fire. A carousel
building older than Route 66 itself. For the road's centennial, Lorecast brings
together twelve short stories about places along its route, ordered westward
from Chicago to Santa Monica.

Each story pairs English audio with a readable transcript and historical source
links. Listeners can choose a place without sharing their location and download
the collection for offline listening and reading. The complete collection takes
about ten minutes, making it an introduction to the road as well as something
to take along on a trip.

The established synthetic narrator Miles reads the collection. The scripts were
reviewed against their cited sources, and the developer listened to all twelve
recordings before accepting them. Lorecast is made by independent developer
Stanislav Karas.

WHY LORECAST EXISTS
Lorecast began on a drive from Tennessee to Texas. Bored behind the wheel, independent developer Stanislav Karas started asking an AI assistant about interesting places nearby. The discoveries made the journey more engaging, and he came home with an idea: an audio guide that could tell the stories of ordinary roads as well as famous ones.

That broader coverage is a long-term ambition. Today, Lorecast starts with selected routes while Stan tests whether travelers want the experience. Route 66’s hundredth anniversary inspired him to make its region free and create this twelve-story collection: a small invitation to look more closely at the places along the Mother Road.

FACT SHEET
Collection: Route 66: A Century of Stories
Edition: Centennial 2026
Stories: 12
Total audio duration: 9 minutes 48.64 seconds
Language: English
Narration: Miles (synthetic)
Access: Route 66 is free through December 31, 2027
Offline: Audio and text available after downloading
Location: Not required for this listening collection
Premiere: November 11, 2026
Review build: Access will be added when available
Website: https://lorecast.net
Contact: hello@lorecast.net

THE TWELVE PLACES
1. Where the road begins — Chicago, Illinois
2. Ambler's Texaco Gas Station — Dwight, Illinois
3. Standard Oil Gasoline Station — Odell, Illinois
4. Blue Whale of Catoosa — Catoosa, Oklahoma
5. Rock Cafe — Stroud, Oklahoma
6. Cadillac Ranch — Amarillo, Texas
7. Blue Swallow Motel — Tucumcari, New Mexico
8. El Rancho Hotel — Gallup, New Mexico
9. Wigwam Village No. 6 — Holbrook, Arizona
10. The road through Williams — Williams, Arizona
11. Kingman Grammar School — Kingman, Arizona
12. Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome — Santa Monica, California

NOTE TO EDITORS
The supplied images show the forthcoming collection in an iOS simulator.
The collection is not yet released; a TestFlight invitation is not yet supplied. The short film is an editorial montage, not a continuous app recording.
See credits.txt for photographic attribution and licensing.

CERTIFICATION
Lorecast’s Route 66 project received Route 66 Centennial Certification on
September 24, 2026. The certification applies to the Route 66 project within Lorecast.
https://route66centennial.org/