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A Route 66 museum is a museum devoted primarily to the history of U.S. Route 66, a U.S. Highway which served the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, in the United States from 1926 until it was bypassed by the Interstate highway system and ultimately decommissioned in June 1985.
Because it was named “U.S. 66,” via telegram at a meeting of highway officials in Springfield, Missouri on April 30, 1926. ... at the Route 66 Car Museum to ... Oklahoma Route 66 Museum in ...
Oklahoma Route 66 Museum is the state's official showcase of Route 66, operated by the Oklahoma Historical Society, and located on historic U.S. Route 66. [24] The Cheyenne Cultural Center was founded in hopes of preserving the Cheyenne people's way of life. The site has become a regional interpretive center for Cheyenne history and culture. [25]
On Tulsa's Southwest Boulevard, between W. 23rd and W. 24th Streets there is a granite marker dedicated to Route 66 as the Will Rogers Highway which features an image of namesake Will Rogers together with information on the route from Michael Wallis, author of Route 66: The Mother Road; [58] and, at Howard Park just past W. 25th Street, three ...
A Route 66 mainstay in the Springfield area just got a larger than-life-addition. Say hello to Big Ron. He’s three stories tall, surrounded by old-fashioned gas pumps and is the latest art ...
U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a former east–west United States Numbered Highway, running from Santa Monica, California to Chicago, Illinois. In Missouri, the highway ran from downtown St. Louis at the Mississippi River to the Kansas state line west of Joplin. The highway was originally Route 14 from St. Louis to Joplin and Route 1F from ...
Shea's was operated as a Marathon station on Peoria Road from 1955 to 1982 and later converted into a Route 66 museum. Last spring, the Springfield city council voted to accept a $623,000 State of ...
Route 66 Drive In (remains), Weatherford; McLain Rogers Park, Clinton ; Y Service Station and Café, Clinton ; Mid-Town Travel Inn, Clinton; Clinton Inn and Suites, Clinton; Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, Clinton (redirected to list of Route 66 museums) Pop Hicks Restaurant (established 1936, burned 1999), Clinton; Catholic Cemetery, Canute