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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.
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 ...
Route 66 map route with select cities ... via telegram at a meeting of highway officials in Springfield, Missouri on April 30, 1926. ... of your adventure at the Route 66 Car Museum to enjoy a ...
Fire Museum of Missouri, Willow Springs [63] [64] First Due Museum, Hazelwood [65] Fred Bear Museum, Springfield, now incorporated into the Archery Hall of Fame; General Sweeny's Museum of Civil War History, Republic, closed in 2005 [66] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; Memoryville USA, Rolla, closed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
About 30 minutes west of Rolla is a large-format metal Route 66 Shield outside of the 1903 Route 66 Courthouse Museum at 303 Historic Route 66 East in Waynesville, which features displays on the ...