Scott Piotrowski
Scott Piotrowski was born and raised in northeastern Ohio. He moved to Southern California in 1996 to pursue a career in filmmaking. During that move, Piotrowski roughly followed the path of Route 66 from western Oklahoma to Los Angeles, and he became enamored with the highway. That interest in 66 has spread to other historic roads as well, and Piotrowski now frequently searches out the road less traveled.
In 1998, Piotrowski formed 66 Productions by filing a "DBA" in Los Angeles County. Originally, 66 Productions was conceived as a film and video production resource that would specialize in directing non-fiction films in general and historic roads films in particular.
By 2001, Piotrowski's vision had expanded to include photographing historical structures and giving presentations about Route 66 in Southern California. The first published photographs from 66 Productions appeared in 2001 in Jon Robinson's book "Route 66: Lives on the Road." About a year later Piotrowski gave his first Route 66 presentation to the Arroyo Arts Collective at the historic Judson Studios in Highland Park / Garvanza (in Northeast Los Angeles), a National Register of Historic Places Landmark.
It was also about this time that research began in earnest on "Finding the End of the Mother Road: Route 66 in Los Angeles County." With the expansion of 66 Productions from strictly film and television into photography, writing / publishing, and public speaking, the decision was made to become more active in the growing historic roads preservation movement. As such, 66 Productions has been involved in preservation issues in Los Angeles (the Southwest Museum and the Arroyo Seco Parkway Corridor Management Plan), Fontana (widening of Foothill Boulevard), Carthage, MO (Boots Motel), and York, PA (Lincoln Highway Garage). Piotrowski has also attended the Preserving America's Historic Roads Conference on more than one occasion.
