US 66 has been a fixture in popular culture. American pop-culture artists publicized US 66 and the experience, through song and television. Bobby Troup wrote "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66", and the highway lent its name to the "Route 66" TV series in the 1960s, which itself had a popular theme song arranged by Nelson Riddle. "The Grapes of Wrath" (novel) and "The Grapes of Wrath" (film) each depict the Joad family, who has been evicted from their small farm in Oklahoma and travels to California on US 66.