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2 OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES

3 MEMBERSHIP MATTERS Robert Gehl

4 NEWSFROMTHEROAD

10 ROUTE 66 IN MISSOURI A 90thANNIVERSARYTIMELINE

20 THE BIBLE OF BLACK TRAVEL Joe Sonderman

24 VESTIGES OF ROUTE 66 IN VALLEY PARK Joe Sonderman I Douglas Schneider

30 PURE COUNTRY CLOSE TO THE CITY STOVALL'S GROVE Joe Sonderman

34 CRUISING DOWN HIGHWAY 61 , THE ANNIVERSARY TOUR Kipe Welborn

39 NEW MEMBERS Robert Gehl • 40 BUSINESS MEMBER DIRECTORY Robert Gehl

48 THEN AND NOW Joe Sonderman

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FUTURE MEETING DATES Saturday, April 8, 2017 - Belmont Vineyards & Winery, Leasburg, MO / Saturday, July 8, 2017 - Oasis Convention Center, Springfield, MO Saturday, October 14, 2017 - KirkwoodStation Restaurant & Brewing Co.,Kirkwood,MO

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Show M~ Route 66 Magazine is the official publication of The Route 66 Associadon of Missouri. Show M~ Route 66 Magazine is published quarterly and is distributed free of charge to all paid members in good standing of The Rome 66 Association of Missouri. Additional copies may be purchased for the COSt in advance of $6 USD each including postage. Request for additional copies may be made direct to The Route 66 Association of Missouri, P.O. Box 8117, St. Louis, Missouri 63 t 56. Manuscripts and photographs submitted for publication are welcome and should be sent electronically to Joe Sonderman, Magazine Coordinator, Route 66 Association of Missouri, at [email protected]. Reproduction of this magazine in part or in whole, is prohibited without written permission from the President and/or Board of Directors of The Route 66 Association of Missouri. The Route 66 Association of Missouri and rhe production staff are not responsible for errors or omissions contained herein. The Roure 66 Association of Missouri and the production staff retain the right ro edit any submitted materi- als and to not publish an article of questionable content or that goes against the purpose of The Rome 66 Association of Missouri. The Route 66 Association of Missouri is a non-profit corporation established to preserve, promote and develop Old Route 66 in Missouri.

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OFFICERS PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER Tommy Pike James Crooks Tonya Pike Robert Schulz 1602 East Dale St. 2540 Christopher Oaks Ct. P.O. Box 9623 708 South Market St. Springfield, MO 65803 St. Louis, MO 63129 Springfield, MO 65801 Waterloo, IL 62298 (417) 865-1318 (314) 293-2540 (417) 872-7280 (618) 939-7021 furyon66(a)earth Iink.net jimmy52(a)att.net tjp_666(a)yahoo.com schulz(a)htc.net

BOARD OF Jerry Benner Robert Gehl Bob Schwartz James J. Thole 1115Chatelet Dr. 1667 Timber Ridge Est. Dr. P.O. Box 498 1264 Jade Wind Cir. DIRECTORS Ferguson, MO 63135 Wildwood, MO 63011 Osage Beach, MO 65065. Manchester, MO 63011 (314) 521-4255 (636) 458-4585 office (573) 348-4053 home (636) 227-2258 fj benner(a)m indspring.com (314) 971-6366 cell (314) 650 5767 cell 66thole(a)sbcglo baI.net rgehl66(a)ea rthlin k.net bobobeck1(a)msn.com David J. Eslick Diane Warhover 3311 South Elmira Jerry L. Law Mark Stauter 418 Cloister Walk Springfield, MO 65807 434 N. 5th Street 309 Hutchinson Dr. Kirkwood, MO 63122 (417) 889-9332 Wood River, IL 62095 Rolla, MO 65401 (314) 965-5751 djeslick(a)undata .com (314) 440-0040 (573) 341-2932 warhoverdiane(a)gmail.com thelaw1(a)sbcgloba I.net markcstauter(a)gmail.com Larry Frickenschmidt 2131 S. Farm Road 199 Joe Schulte Springfield, MO 65809 940 Saint Antoine St. (417) 861-2969 Florissant, MO 63031 Imfnations(a)aol.com (314) 921-1329 GJoes99(a)yahoo.com

COMMITTEES HISTORIAN I MEMBERSHIP MOTOR TOUR PUBLICATIONS ORAL HISTORY SERVICES Robert Schulz Diane Warhover, Jerry Benner, Chairperson Robert Gehl, Director 708 South Market Chairperson 1115Chatelet Dr. 1667 Timber Ridge Est. Dr. Waterloo, IL 62298 418 Cloister Walk Ferguson, MO 63135 Wildwood, MO 63011 (618) 799-8021 Kirkwood, MO 63122 • (314) 521-4255 (636) 458-4585 office schulz(a)htc.net (314) 965-5751 fj ben ner(a) mindspri ng.com (314) 971-6366 cell warhove rdiane(a)gm aiI.com Tommy Pike rgehI66(a)earthlink.net 1602 East Dale St. NEON HERITAGE SHOW ME ROUTE 66 Springfield, MO 65803 PRESERVATION MISSOURI HISTORIC MAGAZINE (417) 865-1318 James J. Thole, Chairperson ROUTE 66 BYWAY Joe Sonderman, Editor furyon66(a)earthlink.net 1264 Jade Wind Cir. CONTACT 1710 Coachway Lane Manchester, MO 63011 Tommy Pike Hazelwood, MO 63042 INTERNET SERVICES (636) 227 -2258 1602 East Dale St. (314) 609-6370 Chris Debosek, 66thole(a)sbcglobal.net Springfield, MO 65803 stlrt66(a)aol.com Director (417) 865-1318 637 Rayburn Ave. PRESERVATION furyon66(a)ea rth Iink.net Crestwood, MO 63126 Jane Dippel, Chairperson (314) 609-6927 7920 Captain Conn Dr. cd kd(a)earthlink.net St. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 843-7132 vestaon66(a)att.net membershif2-0atters ,00

BY ROBERT GEHL, DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP SERVICES, (314) 971-6366 OR RGEHL66(Ci)EARTHLlNK.NET

agercustomers vie for space inside and restoration often breeds more of the the door hard on this busy Route 66 same. In the case of Donut Drive-In, it is Epathway through the city of St. Louis. a magnet for locals and Route 66 travelers It's not unusual on a Friday or Saturday alike, all seeking pleasures created inside each evening to see a dozen devotees of day - and perhaps pausing for a moment doughnuts packed shoulder-to-shoulder, to enjoy the experience of a classic roadside searching the glass cases or the rolling racks business that now appears today much as it just beyond the counter for their favorites did 55 years ago. or perhaps a new choice to try. We're here As many of YOLknowl , in addition to at Donur Drive-In, just a few blocks east Membership Services, I am privileged to of Ted Drewes, one of the two beloved serve as the Team Advisor on our eon institutions along Chippewa from the high Heritage Preservation Committee, and on season of Main Street USA. behalf of our team, I wanted to express Now historic preservation and our appreciation to the many members restoration work never stops - perhaps who have supported our neon restoration pauses just long enough for a doughnut- projects over the past 10 years. Your and such was true on the misty morning of participation in past relighting events, your December 23'd 2016, just two days before words of encouragement, and your generous Christmas.With the valued assistance donations co our dedicated Neon Heritage of a 50/50 cost-share grant from the Preservation Fund within the Association has • arional Park Service's Route 66 Corridor been so important to our efforts. Just this Preservation Program, deteriorated plastic past year, a total of $1,967.69 was donated panel signs on three sides of this 1952 white cinder-block building to our neon fund. That came from many individuals who added were replaced with stunning new panels. These new "DONUT dollars with their new or renewing memberships and from vendor Drive In" sign accurately replicate the appearance of the original members who designated a portion of their Route 66 merchandise painted signs, long since replaced many years ago by the interior sales when participating at events along rhe road.An example of illuminated sign panels. As you may note in the accompanying the use of our neon fund happened just over a year ago, when the photograph during the installation process, the degraded signs had Association acquired the "Motel St. Louis" neon sign from its place simple non-descript letters affixed to the face of the signs and paid of exile in St. James, MO. It is now on display through July 16, 2017 no historic tribure to the early version rhey replaced. Addirionally, at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis as part of the "Route 66: the old fluorescent bulbs were updared to LED rechnology, and Main Street Through St. Louis" exhibit. Thank you to everyone rhe new panels shine specracularly as nighttime falls and customers who treasures our neon sign heritage along Route 66 and for your repeal' well-rehearsed riruals, once again drawn by some of rhe continued interest and generosity. finest doughnurs in the land. David Hurson, our fellow Associarion One quick additional opportunity to help raise money for our member and master neon crafrsman and owner of eon Time in neon fund - if you live in the greater St. Louis area or one of the St. Charles, MO, designed the new panels based on the original other communities served by Schnucks Markets, their on-going lettering style, fonts, and colors. Signcrafters of St. Louis provided eScrip affinity card program is designed to support nonprofirs by fabricarion and insrallarion under David's direcrion. donating 1 to 3% of a participant's purchases to the organization of The four Schwarz families who own rhe Donut Drive-In have their choice. My wife Yvonne and I have used our two cards for the maintained a close working relationship wirh our Associarion and past 4 years with the Association the recipient of the contribution are proud to be one of long-term Business Members. In facr, rhey back, resulting in $200.93 generated for our neon fund.Please were the first ownership group co take a chance on an enthusiastic call or Email me and I'll send you an eScrip card and register your but inexperienced team, the Neon Heritage Preservation card in the Schnucks system for you.All you need to do is show the Committee, in the restoration of their iconic Donut Drive-In cashier the card at check-our - it costs YOLlnothing to use and all neon sign (see in background of accompanying photo after dark). the proceeds generated are assigned to our dedicated eon Heritage Having successfully restored their neon sign in 2008 (also executed Preservation Fund. We had 15 members sign up for eScrip cards at by David Hutson), they were open to our entree again some eight the October meeting. Thank you for your consideration and suppOrt years later to replace their problematic and increasingly unsightly - this is free money for our preservation efforts! sign panels with not only a maintenance-free solution but one that brings back the "period" look of the establishment. It's often said Hope to see you on the road! "success breeds success;" it can also be said that quality preservation Bob GeW "TRVL66"

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HALLTOWN MERCANTILE CLOSES

Halltown, Missouri is one of those towns hit hard by the Interstate, and it is even quieter today after losing its landmark business. The Halltown Mercantile had held on for over 30 years, with an eclectic mix of trash and treasures and healthy dose of personality from operators Jerry and Thelma Whire. Thelma left us in April of 20 10 and Jerry closed the store following the holidays this year. Jerry's daughter Anne and another woman were sorting and clearing things out when Cheryl Eichar [err visited in late November. Anne said Jerry is in the hospital with a serious infection and will go into a skilled care facility when he leaves the hospital. Jerry, age 83, had remarked thar he was thankful for his customers, many of whom became friends. Some other factors also came into play, TIMES BEACH BRIDGE WILL STAND such as the ownership of the false-front building that dares back to BY JOE SONDERMAN 1900. Jerry and Thelma never owned the building and it had been in probate since the previous owner passed away. As this issue was going to press, word was received that the The building once housed the Halltown Post Office and the Times Beach Bridge may get a reprieve.It was reported that an general store. The second story served as a meeting place for the announcement would be coming soon and that it would be good International Order of Oddfellows fraternal organization, as well news. Details of a breakthrough involving a major donor and the as several other groups, making it the social center of this tiny Missouri State Parks Foundation were expected to be released in the town. The old timers gathered around the por belly stove to, as coming weeks. The agreement would keep the bridge from being Jerry recalls, "solve the problems of the world." During rhe Route demolished in 2017 as previously scheduled. 66 era, Charley Dammer's Las Vegas Horel and Cafe was across the The ownership of the bridge is expected to be transferred from road. Dammer was a barber who left for California and hit it big the Missouri Department of Transportation to another state agency in Las Vegas before he returned to his hometown and finished his with private assistance. There are no additional details yet, bur it buildings in stucco, the style he saw on his travels.Jerry said the does appear that the bridge will be standing for some time to come, possibly for generations. It would serve bicycle and pedestrian traffic only. The Warren deck truss bridge over the Meramec River opened in 1932 and served local traffic to and from Times Beach after Interstate 44 was constructed in 1967. The entire community of Times Beach was leveled due to dioxin contamination in 1983. The historic structure served as the entrance to Route 66 State Park after the site was cleaned up. Bur years of deferred maintenance took its toll, and the bridge was closed due to safety concerns in 2009. A Warren deck truss bridge is very rare and only two remain in the state. The design places the trusses on the bottom of the deck, to provide an unimpeded view. The official announcement will be posted on the GoFundMe Page at gofundme,com/Meramec-66-Bridge and on Facebook. Ir will also be posted on the Route 66 Association of Missouri site at m066.org.

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highway was so busy when Ar rhe same rime as he was growing up rhar rhis plaque was originally people had ro run across dedicared in 2009 ar Fanning ro avoid being srruck by a Outpost, an award Fran won vehicle. ar an Inrernarional Roure 66 Afrer Inrersrare 44 was Fesrival and some of Fran's consrrucred well ro rhe Roure 66 belongings were sourh in 1965, rhe rown also dona red ro rhe Crawford found new life as rhe County Museum. They are self-proclaimed "Antique srill on display rhere roday. Capiral of rhe World." Ir Ar rhe ceremony, Pike rold rhose presenr abour meering Fran did boasr seven anrique in rhe lare 1980's when rhe Roure 66 Associarion of Missouri was srores in a rown wirh a just getting started. Fran became a Charter Member, served on rhe popularion of less rhan Board of Directors, and photographed all rhe Missouri Roure 66 WHITEHALL MERCANTILE Hi,tllflt R.llif (\6 200. Jerry said there bridges, evenrually crearing a now legendary t-shirt of rhose bridges. fl.lllt()Ull, Hi nun was one shop called rhe Bur more rhan that, Fran assisred with Membership. Ir was ofren HALLTOWN MERCANTILE POSTCARD Doll Casrle, wi rh every said in the Associarion mar if you opened a business in Cuba, jusr kind of doll imaginable. Orhers sold lamps or furnirure or borh. go ahead and join rhe Roure 66 Associarion of Missouri as well, so Jerry rold us thar rhe srores didn't compere againsr each orher; rhey Fran didn't come camp on your property unril you did. Fran was "complimented each other." a bulldog when it came ro gerring people on board wirh Roure Thelma and Jerry were borh educarors, who mer when Thelma 66. Even ro presenr rime, Cuba has more business members in the was arrending Ozark Bible College in Joplin and were married Association, per capita, than any other city in Missouri - and a large in 1953. They raughr ar several differenr schools around rhe srare part of that has ro do with Fran's efforts even ro presenr day. and in 1974 moved ro rhe farm sourh of Hallrown where Jerry "I remember Fran telling me that she was sad. She saw Cuba was born and raised. Thelma rerired in 1985 ro devore her rime ro dying, all the young people moving away, and she honesrly believed running rhe Hallrown Mercanrile.Meering rhe people rraveling and Roure 66 was a way ro slow, if not srop, that," Pike rold those working on Roure 66 led her ro cofound the Roure 66 Associarion present at the ceremony. "While there have been people in Cuba • of Missouri wirh Jim Powell in 1990. She also wrore a shorr book who have done a lot for Roure 66, like the Viva Cuba Committee called "Personalities of Roure 66." and Connie at the Wagon Wheel,Fran was the first ro say, hey, look Wirh rhe closing of rhe Hallrown Mercanrile, Missouri's Roure at Route 66, we have something here that makes us special." 66 has lost parr of its personality. Fran traveled the road extensively, and Pike showed those presenr a picrure of Fran taken at the last Route 66 Festival she was able ro attend in 2007 in Litchfield, Illinois. Fran was in chemotherapy REMEMBERING then, and hair loss due ro treatment had left her wirh a Mohawk. FRAN EICKHOFF She wore a hat but would take it off and joke with her friends about BYTONYAJO PIKE what color should she dye it? Even knowing the diagnosis wasn't good,Fran remained upbeat about her siruarion and promoted On Sarurday, Ocrober 15, Roure 66 ro the very end. a short ceremony was held at Fran was called "Ms.Roure 66" parrly because of her desire and Missouri Hick BBQ ro honor willingness ro meet those traveling the road. She would often meet rhe lare Cuba resident Fran tourists on a phone call's notice as they came thru Cuba. Part of the Eickhoff. Fran was rhe owner original idea of putting up the sign at Fanning Outpost was idea of the "Route 66 Lounge" in that Fran, via her plaque, would still be greeting Route 66 rravelers. Cuba for many years bur she was By meeting rravelers, Fran made friends around the world. Friends, probably besr known for being a Pike rold the group, that often still come ro see Fran and leave prominent Roure 66 ambassador flowers at her grave in Cuba. . and fervenr Cuba promorer. The ceremony was attended by Dennis Meiser's 13-year-old-son Fran died from small cell lung cancer in April, 2008. In April, Ryan. In ending her commenrs at the ceremony, Pike rold Ryan that 2009, a plaque honoring Fran was dedicared and placed by rhe fronr door ro rhe Fanning Outpost. However, wirh rhe closing of Fanning Outpost lasr monrh, the plaque needed a new home. Roure 66 Associarion Secrerary Tonya Pike conracred Fanning Ourposr immediarely upon hearing of rheir closing. Wirhin a few days, she nor only procured rhe sign bur a new locarion for it in Cuba. The sign honoring "Ms. Roure 66" now hangs ro rhe left of rhe door ar Missouri Hick BBQ, rhanks ro owner Dennis Meiser. Dennis was a long-rime friend of Fran's, and was very willing ro give rhe sign a new place ro hang our.

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the plaque was now his respon ibiliry, "I don't expect Missouri Hick layout featured three trains running simultaneously and included to close anytime soon," she told him. "But if that day ever does, I representations of Rome 66 icons such as the Coral Court, a hope your dad and I are very old people. And it will be up to you to Meramec Caverns barn and a vintage drive-in theater. find a new home for Fran's plaque, so that part of her is always still greeting Route 66 travelers.Or get it put in the rawford ounty Museum with her award and 66 belongings that are there." The Route 66 Association of Missouri would Like to thank Dan Sanazaro for aLLthe years that he and his family LetFran's plaque reside at Fanning Outpost and Dennis (6- Ryan) Meiser for giving it a new home at Missouri Hick BBQ.

DOCUMENTARY ON 66 MISSOURI

The exhibit Route 66· Main Street through St. Louis at the Missouri History Museum continues to increase interest in our beloved road. The latest project in conjunction with the exhibit is a 90 minute documentary produced DONUT DRIVE-IN FACELIFT by the museum. " how HARKENS BACK TO BEGINNING Me 66: Main treer BY JIM THOLE through Missouri" made its debut on On December 23,2016, the Donut Drive-In, a long-time Route ovember 10. 66 fixture in the city of St. Louis, took on its original appearance The film is directed with newly-replaced Plexiglas sign faces on three sides of the by Andrew Wanko, building. Public Historian at These box signs on the building facade had been changed to the mu eurn, and Eric very undistinguished, generic upper case letters sometime back Wilkinson. in the 1980s; but now the original script font has been revived, "Part travelogue concurrent with new internal electronics that will keep them and part historical brightly lit. Recurring sign outages had become a problem for the narrative," the film last couple years. explores the sights This renaissance was made possible by a 2016 ational Park and experiences on Route 66 in Missouri. It also tells the story of Service COStshare grant through its Rome 66 Corridor Preservation the road's birth in Springfield, the effects of World War II and the Program. The grant application and restoration of these Plexiglas construction of Ft. Leonard Wood, as well as its decline during the signs were facilitated by the Mi souri 66 Association's Neon inter tate era and present day rebirth.The documentary includes Heritage Preservation Committee (" HPC"), even though no interviews with many people familiar to Missouri roadies including neon was involved, because of the relationship established between Ted Drewes, Michael Walli , David Hutson, Ruth Keeney, Irv the Donut Drive-In owners and the NHPC back in 2008, when Logan, Kaitlyn McConnell, Tom Peters, Terry Prirnas, John Sellars, their neon sign became the very first project for the NHPC. The Sharon Smith and Joe Sonderman. It also includes historic photos beautiful neon sign still glows brightly and steadily on Chippewa and rare vintage color film. treet, with its alluring animation of donuts seemingly dropping Show Me 66· Main Street through Missouri aired a couple of times down a pole. on the public television station in St. Louis, KETC, Channel ine. The historic Donut Drive-In has served its local residents, as There will be additional screenings at the museum on Tuesday, well as the traveling public, for 64 years on historic Route 66 in February 7, 2017 at 10:30an1 and Thursday, February 23, 2017 at St. Louis. It was constructed in 1952 to serve its pre ent purpose, 7:00pm.The exhibit continues through July 16, 2017 and admission on the classic corner known as "the wedge" at Chippewa Street is free. DVDs are available at the museum gift shop, which also stocks and Watson Road. Ownership of the property would stay in the a nice selection of books and other Route 66 items. original founding family for 44 years, until the Schwarz brothers During the television premiere of the new documentary, bought the property and business from them in 1996. members of the Route 66 Association of Missouri answered phone The four Schwarz brothers (john, Jim, Paul and Chuck) were calls during the pledge breaks. It was an interesting behind the born and reared in the St. Louis Hills neighborhood where the scenes look at how they really work. Donut Drive-In is located. According to Paul, "we had fond On the opening weekend of the new Toys of the '50s, '60s and '70s memories of visiting the Drive-In during our formative years - it exhibit at the History Museum, the American Flyer "S" Gaugers of was a Sunday morning ritual to Stop by and pick up doughnuts t. Louis displayed their portable 11' x 26' model train layout. The for our breakfast after church." So when the opportunity to

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purchase the property and business presented itself, they seized that PHELPS SCHOOL WEST ELEVATION opportunity ro operate the business that had meant so much to them as young boys - and they have now owned it for 20 years. The Donut Drive-In is located at 6525 Chippewa Street; and just a few blocks to the West is the world famous Ted Drewes Frozen Custard store, Together these two iconic establishments and their signage form a dynamic duo that nicely accent this short section of Route 66, making it reminiscent of the peak years of the Mother Road.

2016 PRESERVATION AWARDS BY GLENDA PIKE

Preservation Awards for 2016 were presented to one Route 66 Business, Circle Inn Malt Shop, LLC and two Route 66 Icons, Phelps School #25 and Jensen Point. These awards were given in recognition and support for their efforts roward completing a preservation and/or resroration project at their location.Each was given a letter conveying appreciation and support and a monetary award of $500. Roure 66 Association of Missouri project was started in 2000. Over the years, this has been diligently promoted by Jane Dippel, Chairperson of the Preservation Committee. The awards are largely funded by the 50-50 drawings at each Association meeting • and motor tour, by occasional donations, and the proceeds of the silent auction at each year's annual motor tour. 1935 and 1940, this building was renovated and an addition added. Forty-one such awards In 1952, Phelps School #25 was consolidated into the Miller R-2 have been presented to School district. In December 1952, the school and one acre ofland date and the monetary were deeded for one dollar as the Phelps Community Center. The award has increased over building was refurbished and served various community needs. the years. It is hoped that The building became inactive over the years to come and fell the monetary awards will into disrepair. In September 2014, the Phelps Community Center/ continue to grow in the School was reorganized as a Missouri non-profit organization and future. once again, plans and action began again to "restore and preserve" Association President Tommy Pike, Secretary Tonya Pike and the Phelps School #25 for use as a Community Center, possibly a Glenda Pike, attended the Phelps Community Center's annual potential County Schools Museum, and/or a Route 66 Information meeting September 3'd held at the PHELPS SCHOOL #25, Center. Once again, Phelps School #25 has a renewed future and is located on Route 66 in Phelps, Missouri. Tommy presented Phelps becoming a showplace on Missouri's Historic Route 66 Byway. Community Center President Monty West with a framed citation JENSEN POINT in Pacific, Missouri was the location of the recognizing the importance of restoring the Phelps School #25 as second 2016 Preservation Award presentation. On September 22, a significant landmark on the famous "Mother Road" and a $500 President Tommy Pike along with wife Glenda, met with officials check. Tommy believes the school may be the oldest located along in the Jensen Point stone pavilion. Tommy declared that the Jensen the entirety of Roure 66. Tommy also said that The Route 66 Point site an important historic landmark of the City of Pacific Association of Missouri appreciates all their efforts to preserve a along Missouri's Historic Route 66 Byway, is now beginning a new Lawrence County Route 66 icon with a colorful and varied history preserved life, once again welcoming travelers and area residents to dating back many years before Roure 66 was born. the social, cultural, historical and architectural past it represents. The one room log school originally was built in the 1850's about Tommy then presented the framed letter of appreciation and support one mile north of a community that became Phelps and on what, and a check for $500 to Alderman Steve Myers for the City of many years later, became Missouri Route 66 (now MO Highway Pacific. The money was designated to support the expenses required 96). The log building was replaced in the 1870's with a frame for additional security for the site. building that was destroyed by an arson fire in 1882. In 1888, The Pacific area's history includes significant Civil War a new one room school building opened. In the years between involvement. Jensen Point was a project of the Henry Shaw

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all the Route 66 memorabilia and historic photographs from the region on the walls. As their advertising states, Circle Inn Malt Shop is a true BLAST FROM THE PAST! The Circle Inn Malt Shop is a long time Association business member as evidenced by all the Association Business Member stickers they proudly display in their front window. The Route 66 Association of Missouri congratulates these three Missouri Route 66 locations and is proud to have all of them as Gardenway Association. It was built in 1939, on the summit of the business members. When you visit these locations, please let them sandstone cliff east of Pacific by Co. 1770 Civilian Conservation know you are also an Association member. Your support will be Corps under the design and supervision of the National Parks appreciated. Service and in cooperation with the Missouri Highway Department. Contact Jane Dippel if you know of a Route 66 business The site consists of three large stone patio areas surrounded by stone or icon with a completed preservation project that you would fencing. A large gazebo covers the top patio. The roof of the gazebo like considered for a 2017 Preservation Award. Jane's contact was constructed of hand hewn timbers supported by huge cut stone information can be found in the front of this magazine. Your pillars. Jensen Point derives its name from Lars Peter Jensen, who suggestion must be submitted to Jane in written form. All was a nationally known horticulturist and the first president and suggestion will be welcome and considered, as is your continued manager of Shaw's Arboretum at Gray Summit,Missouri -later support of the 50-50 drawings, specified preservation donations, known as Shaw's Nature Reserve. The dedication of the pavilion to and the motor tour silent auction. Lars Peter Jensen took place in June of 1941. Unfortunately, time, vandalism, abuse and neglect took toll of the property and it was eventually closed to the public. Fortunately MAKE 66 A NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL in 1991, Wayne Winchester purchased the property, quickly BILL THOMAS, CHAIRMAN falling in love with it and developing a passion to keep it from Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership disappearing. In 2015, Mr. Winchester agreed to sell the property to The City of Pacific after many months of negotiations with Pacific Three years ago, the National Park Alderman-Ward 2, Steve Myers. With successful grants, donations, Service and the World Monuments Fund cleanup and restoration labor, the area is now a useful, beautiful helped facilitate a meeting of Rt, 66 preserved Pacific City Park. AGrand Re-opening dedication was stakeholders in Anaheim, California. The held on Memorial Day, May 30,2016, marking the 77th anniversary result of that meeting was the creation of of the original dedication of the Jensen Point site which was also the Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership. held on Memorial Day in 1939. The mission of the Road Ahead Partnership is to revitalize and The third Award was presented on October 8th to CIRCLE INN sustain Route 66 as a national icon, for the benefit of all Route MALT SHOP, LLC, located in Bourbon, Missouri on Highway 66. 66 communities, travelers, and businesses/attractions, through Association members Preservation Committee Chairperson Jane collaborative partnerships focused on promotion, preservation, Dippel, President Tommy Pike, Secretary Tonya Pike and Glenda research/education, and economic development. Pike met with current owner/operator Josh Ware. After visiting and One of the priority projects of the Road Ahead Partnership is enjoying ice cream with Josh, he was also presented with a framed to pass Federal legislation that designates Route 66 as a National letter of appreciation and support and a check for $500, recognizing Historic Trail. Important work on this initiative has already been the recent building and equipment upgrades. Josh was also done. In 1995, the National Park Service - as authorized by reminded that The Route 66 Association of Missouri appreciates Congress - conducted a Route 66 Special Resource Study. The his efforts to continue the operations of an "authentic type" Route study determined that Route 66 met the criteria in the National 66 diner. Josh immediately stated the check and said it would go Trails System Act for designation as a National Historic Trail. It towards replacing the shop's chairs. is now time to move forward with making Route 66 a National History states the Circle Inn Malt Shop was originally built Historic Trail - and we need your help. in 1955, by Bud and Marie Ware. It was passed to their son Bob Securing National Historic Trail designation will ensure a Ware and is now in the capable ownership and operation of Josh permanent federal focus on Route 66. This is especially important, Ware. The tradition of diner style food, ice cream and breakfast given that the only current federal focus on Route 66 is via the all day continues to attract Route 66 travelers as well as local National Park Service'sRoute 66 Corridor Preservation Program. residents. Walking into the shop is like stepping back in time with This program is scheduled to sunset in 2019, and is unlikely ro

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be reauthorized.A Route 66 National Historic Trail will promote But the most valuable aspect of the book is that it documents collaboration among the communities, non-profit organizations, and Route 66 as it actually was. The photos cover a roughly 60 segment state Rt, 66 Associations that, together, are working to preserve and of the route around berween the Greene County line and Kansas, promote Route 66. including Carthage, Webb City and Joplin.There are glimpses of Please join us in this important effort. Together we can secure long gone gas stations, neon signs, billboards and the road itself, the future of the Mother Road we all love. The sample letter of with its narrow bridges, lack of shoulders and dangerous hills. support provides information regarding where to send your letter. It Duncan says he obtained information on several of the also asks for your contact information so we can stay in touch as we accidents from the Carthage Press. Most of the negatives he worked work on this initiative. Thank you in advance for writing a letter of with included little more than a location and a date. There is nor support! a tremendous amount of text in this book. The pictures are worth Will you please write a letter stating your support for designating thousands of words. Route 66 as a ational Historic Trail? Route 66· ATrail of Tears is available at the Powers Museum in You can download a digital copy of the sample letter of support Carthage, the Mother Road Coffee House, also in Carthage, or on by accessing the Road Ahead website at: https://sites.google.com/ Amazon.com. site/66roadahead/. Once on the homepage of the Road Ahead website, click on the "National Historic Trail Information" link in the left-hand menu bar. This will take you to the page from SAVE THE DATE which you can access & download the sample letter of support. Questions or requests for additional information can be The Hot Summer ighr's theme for June 9th is: "It's a 66 Day- forwarded to:Bill Thomas, Chairman, The Route 66 Road Ahead Route 66 Returns." Love to have you all join us at Hot Summer Partnership at: [email protected]. ights for this event. We will be setting up the Route 66 Village again at Luby's Plaza on the strip in Lake Ozark, MO for this event. Mark your calendar and plan ro support this event and the BOOK SHOWS BLOODY 66 Route 66 Association with your attendance. The Association can always use your help at this annual event. Through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia, we sometimes forget that there was a deadly dark side ro Route 66 and it was sometimes • known as "Bloody 66." A new book provides the photos ro remind us while at the same time offering glimpses of long lost sites on the Mother Road in ourhwest Missouri. Route 66· A Trail of Tears is a hefty self published work by Carl Duncan, who rook on the task of searching through thousands of negatives taken at accident scenes by and former mayor and Carthage Press photographer William Carl Taylor from the 1950s ro the 1970s. Taylor also rook photos for the Highway Patrol and sold them ro insurers and lawyers. His archive is housed at the Jasper County Records Center. Duncan himself served on the Carthage CAMELS STILL "HUMPIN'TO PLEASE" Police force for over 30 years and worked hundreds of accidents. ON ROUTE 66? BY GLENDA PIKE The author rook great care ro not include any gruesome images of dead bodies in the massive work of over 500 pages, but there is Several weeks ago as we were coming home from a visit to still enough twisted metal, bent steering columns and broken glass Carthage, I was watching the miles of the Missouri Route 66 to give one pause. All manner of classic cars and trucks are shown Historic Byway go by when I did not believe my eyes. I immediately smashed and crumpled amid pools of fluids. They are a reminder of told Tommy ro turn around and slowly retrace the last couple miles. how far we have come in terms of vehicle safety. The pictures often And YES, I saw it again! CAMELS on 66. show big crowds of onlookers, something that first responders do Right there on rop of a hill on the north side of Route 66 (MO not allow at accident scenes today Highway 96) in amongst a herd of Angus and Holstein cows were at least, 3 camels. This is east of Lawrence County road 2059 and west of Lawrence Country road 1195 and Johnson Creek-about north of Spencer. The nearest mailbox address was 19512 Hwy 96. There was no one at home to talk with. We were back that way a few days ago and the camels were still proudly milling around in the same location with the cows. Again, no one was home. I have not been able to find out why they are in Missouri enjoying the traffic on Route 66 or how long they will be there. All I know is at this time camels are still "hurnpin' to please" in Missouri. Hopefully, someone will soon inform me. For interesting reading about camels on 66 and Campbell 66 Express see http://campbe1166express.com/.

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TO MARK THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF ROUTE 66, HERE IS A LOOK BACK ATTHE EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE HIGHWAY THROUGH MISSOURI.

August 10, 1821 - President November 12, 1837 - The first January 6, 1868 - John T. July 6, 1907 -Curtis Hill of Monroe signed the bill admitting group of Cherokee to follow Woodruff was born in Franklin t. Louis was named as the first Missouri as the 24th state. By that the "Trail of Tears" in Missouri County, Missouri.Woodruff State Highway Engineer. State time, the Trail of the Osage, or crossed the Mississippi near would become the greatest civic lawmakers had established the the "Kickapoo" Trail had already Cape Girardeau.This group of leader in the history of Springfield, office as part of the Board of been in use for hundreds of years. 365 picked up the Springfield Missouri and a strong proponent Agriculture. Hill was directed In 1825, the trail rook on more Road, reaching Springfield on of good roads. He helped insure to immediately begin planning importance when Thomas James December 17.Eleven adults that the Ozark Trail, and later US a highway between Kansas City and Samuel Massey established and four children died on the 66, came through town and served and Sr. Louis. the Meramec Iron Works near journey. In all, about 11,000 as the first president of the 66 November 10, 1910- present day St. James. Indians forced from their homes Highway Association. Ceremonies marked the by the US Government crossed January 25, 1835 - Sr. Louis dedication of the McKinley the trail to the Indian Territory in County began planning a road Bridge over the Mississippi the winter of 1837-1838. About linking the village of Manchester River at Sr. Louis. The bridge is 1,700 never made ir. with Jefferson City, via Union and named for Congressman William Mount Sterling. The road would February 5, 1845 - A group of McKinley, then president of the become Manchester, the first state St. Louis County residents, led Illinois Traction Company, later road in Sr. Louis County, later by Wesley Watson, filed a petition the Illinois Terminal System. His designated as US 50, 66 and then for a road "from Cooper's Farm firm built the bridge to carry its MO 100. on the Old Manchester Roads, interurban trains. The bridge was thence to the River des Peres near the original U.S. 66 Mississippi the mouth of the Lick Branch, crossing. from thence the most practical April 17, 1912 -The National

route to the ferry landing AUGUST 31, 1871 Old Trails Road Association opposite the town of Fenton." was founded in Kansas City to The road would be named after August 31, 1871 - Cyrus tevens promote a coast ro coast trail Watson. Avery was born in Stevensville, from Baltimore ro Los Angeles, Pennsylvania. The "Father of Route with branches ro ew York July 21, 1865 - The first classic 66" became a Tulsa businessman and San Francisco. It followed Wild We r shootour occurred and highway official. As a member historic routes such as the at Springfield, Missouri.Davis of the committee that numbered National Road and the Santa Fe Tun claimed Wild Bill Hickok the U highway system, he Trail. It mostly became US 40. owed him a gambling debt and proposed the route from hicago From Santa Fe to Los Angeles, humiliated Hickok by taking his to Los Angeles and made sure it much of it became US 66. gold pocket watch as a ransom. came through his home town. February 6, 1837 - The State of Each man stood about 75 yards March 22, 1913 -The state Missouri authorized a road from apart on the Public Square and June 4, 1903 -A law regulating created the Missouri tate Sr. Louis to Springfield along the opened fire. Tutt missed and was automobiles was passed by the Highway Department, taking old Osage Trail. The "Springfield killed.Eleven years later, Wild state. It required a $2 yearly responsibility for the roads Road" would become a stagecoach Bill met death in Deadwood, license and also required drivers away from the Agriculture route and was known as the South Dakota. Broken ose'' Jack to announce their presence with Department, Missouri also "Wire Road" after the government McCall, shot him from behind a horn or bell before passing a introduced registration fees strung the telegraph lines between as he held a two-pair poker hand horse drawn vehicle. Violations for vehicles and authorized the St. Louis and Fort Smith, Arkansas of aces and eights, now known as were punishable by a fine of up to designation of routes between in 1858. the Dead Man's Hand. a $1,000 or six months in jail. county seats as state roads.

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July 10,1913 -The Ozark become the first State Highway time, most hotels were oriented Trails Association was organized. Superintendent. This section of towards rail traffic. But Woodruff William Hope "Coin" Harvey led road became part of U.S. 66. foresaw that St. Louis Street the organization ro promote good would become a major highway July 31, 1921 - Missouri's roads in the Ozarks, a nerwork and motorists might prefer a General Assembly passed the connecting with his resort at location in a quiet setting. The Centennial Road Law, which Monte Ne,Arkansas. The trail hotel opened on July 24, 1926. created the state highway system had several branches, basically and shifted highway building August 12, 1925 - The St. berween St. Louis and Santa Fe, from the local to the state level. Louis Times newspaper platted and was marked with white The measure authored the state a summer resort community on obelisks, seven of which survive highway commission to designate the Meramec River named Times today. as "higher type than claybound Beach. With the purchase of a six December 12,1914 -The gravel" about 1500 miles of month subscription, the paper American Association of State primary roads connecting the offered a lot for $67.50. Highway Officials (AASHO) population centers and 6,000 was founded. The group sets miles of secondary routes. By Subscribing for Six Months to October 11, 1926 - The standards used in highway THE ST. LOUIS TIMES "Glorious Cillioz" Theater in November 3, 1923 - The Abou You Can Secure a Summer Home Site at design and construction across TIMES BEACH Springfield opened. M.E. Gillioz Ben Adhem Shrine Mosque On the Meramec the nation. In 1973, it became couldn't find a location on 66, in Springfield, Missouri was AASHTO, the American so he bought property a block to dedicated. At the time, it was hailed Association of State Highway the north, leased a 20 foot wide as one of the largest auditoriums and Transportation Officials, frontage on St. Louis Street and west of the Mississippi. Elvis For OnIY167F...1ioD~~;r~Monthly recognizing its involvement in linked it to the theater 130 feet Presley played a concert here in other forms of transportation. ,If!----~;=~-=~-··I=a[way. The 1,100 seat theater, 1956. Presidents Truman and where Elvis Presley watched a July 11, 1916 - The first Reagan also appeared there. ":"'n!:= ~.!=- .-..---- movie before his 1956 concert, measure for federal highway July 4, 1924 - Dedication AUGUST 12, 1925 closed in 1980 but was restored funding in the United States ceremonies were held for the in 2006. was passed. First introduced newly completed bridge over the September 15, 1925 - Cyrus by Dorsey Shackleford of November 11, 1926 -The U.S. Big Piney at Devils Elbow. 0.0. Avery and the four other Missouri, it provided $75 million Secretary of Agriculture approved • Chrisman, head of the highway members of the committee ofFederal money in 50-50 the federal highway system department right of way division appointed by the Secretary of matching funds to the states. and Route 66 was officially was one of the main speakers at Agriculture to map out the The Missouri General Assembly commissioned. At this time, the dedication of the 580 foot proposed U.S. Highway system formally assented to the federal U.S. 66 was 2,448 miles long long steel and concrete bridge. met for the last time at the act with the passage in March and used Manchester Road west Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis. They 1917 of the Hawes Road Law, from St. Louis to Gray Summit. agreed to a system giving the named for its chief author, State The federal highway system east-west routes even numbers Representative Harry B. Hawes. encompassed some 96,626 miles with the most important of roadway. January 20, 1917 - The long- transcontinental routes numbers awaited Municipal of "Free" ending in "0." Avery used his February 4, 1927 - Cyrus Bridge over the Mississippi River influence to win the number Avery of Oklahoma and John T. at St. Louis opened to traffic. "60" for his proposed highway Woodruff of Springfield met with The Municipal Bridge, renamed berween Chicago and Los representatives of communities in honor of General Douglas Angeles, even though it wasn't a along the route in Tulsa to MacArthur in 1942, carried transcontinental route. form the U.S. 66 Highway Route 66 traffic from 1929 ro November 10, 1924- Association. Avery suggested the April 30, 1926 - A lengthy battle 1935, and City 66 from 1936 to Ceremonies at Miller, Missouri group promote Route 66 as "The over the number of the proposed 1955. marked the formal dedication Main Street of America." US Highway from Chicago to of the the newly paved MO 14 March 4, 1918 - A contract Los Angeles was settled. The July 3, 1927 - Spencer Groff berween Joplin and Springfield. was signed for the first concrete Governor of Kentucky demanded opened the Diamonds Restaurant Governor Sam Baker addressed road in Missouri built with that US 60 be assigned ro a in a large frame building at the the crowd and the citizens federal assistance. Completed in transcontinental route through intersection of MO 100 and of Miller made it a two-day late 1920, Federal Aid Project 2 his state. Missouri had already newly paved U.S. 66 at Villa celebration combining with the stretched 7.4 miles from Webb printed up highway maps Ridge. He had been selling Armistice Day observances the City ro the Kansas Line. John showing the Chicago to L.A. produce and a handful of other following day. Malang of the Joplin Special route as 60.Angry telegrams flew items from a ramshackle building Road District was in charge March 31, 1925 - Work began until Avery and his supporters jokingly dubbed the "Banana of the project. He pioneered on the Kenrwood Arms Hotel, met in Springfield,Missouri Stand." The new restaurant the use of mining waste, or constructed by John T. Woodruff and agreed to accept the catchy was named for the shape of the "chat" to pave roads and would in Springfield. Prior to this sounding 66. property.

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March 4, 1928 - A 3,422 mile 66 came through Stafford and long transcontinental footrace, down M0125 to Division dubbed the "Bunion Derby" Street, over ro Glensrone Avenue, began in Los Angeles. The US 66 onto St. Louis Street and into Highway Association teamed with Springfield's downtown. flamboyant promoter CC Pyle July 16, 1928 - The first of to stage the event. Participants the lavish Pierce-Petroleum ran in snow, rain and blazing heat Terminals opened at 510 St. while the promoter cut corners, Louis Street in Springfield. raising the mileage each day and Pennant hotels were first skimping on lodging and food. class at a time when roadside Andy Payne of the Route 66 accommodations were often town of Foyil, Oklahoma won, crude at best. The terminals and Route 66 gained tremendous included a restaurant, car wash July 20, 1929 - The new Chain Highway Commission said that publicity. and even a hospital. Other of Rocks Bridge over the bypass routes like Lindbergh were terminals were outside St. Louis Mississippi at St. Louis opened. the future. He added, "Speed is (Des Peres) and at Columbia The bridge carried Route 66 from the desire of the moment." and Rolla, Missouri. They were 1936 to 1965. The unique bend January 5,1931 - The final also located in Miami, Tulsa and in the middle was ordered by the section of pavement on original Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. government to prevent the span Route 66 in Missouri was from hindering navigation. The completed. The last section (FAP August 1, 1928 - The Pierce- bridge closed in 1970. Pennant Tavern in Rolla opened. 176c) was in Phelps County near It became the Pennant Cafe and October 29, 1929 - Billions of Arlington. Workers tossed coins Hotel Martin in 1946. Badly dollars were lost the stock market into the wet cement to celebrate crashed on "Black Tuesday." damaged by a 1953 fire, it was the occasion. Motorists continued demolished for a new Hotel During the Great Depression to detour via Newburg until the Martin, which no longer stands. many families searching for new pavement was opened to work headed west on Route 66, traffic three weeks later. • November 6, 1928 - Missouri called "The Mother Road" by voters approved Proposition 3, John Steinbeck in the "Grapes of March 15, 1931 - More than a bond issue which also provided Wrath." 8,000 people gathered in Rolla for authorization and funds for a parade and speeches celebrating November 4, 1929 - The April 21, 1928 - Runners in "Traffic Relief" Roads in St. the completion of paving on Pennant Hotel in Rolla opened. the Bunion Derby got a hostile Louis and Kansas City, including Route 66 across Missouri. Just It became the Carney Manor in welcome in Carthage. The city the New Watson Road from St. three days after opening, the 1963. The Pear Tree Inn, formerly had planned a big celebration. Louis to Gray Summit. (US 66TR) Hotel Edwin Long hosted the the Drury Inn, stands on the site But the Joplin Chamber of The Traffic Relief designation was celebration. It was built by bridge today. Commerce offered more money a way around regulations that and road contractor Maurice to have the race stop there and restricted state construction of January 21, 1930 - Honorary Ernest Gillioz and named for promoter c.c.Pyle found roads in urban areas. Colonel Arthur T. Nelson opened Senator Edwin Long, a former an excuse ro change plans. In the Nelson Tavern at US 66 and Rolla mayor who died in 1928. January 1, 1929 - Route 66 Carthage, the crowds booed the MO 5 in Lebanon and surrounded was shifted to the Municipal April 23 1931 - The 56th runners, and a barrage of rotten it with trees and lush gardens. It or "Free" Bridge at St. Louis. General Assembly authorized eggs greeted the pilot car. was demolished in 1958. The route would then follow creation of the Missouri Highway April 27, 1928 - Weary Chouteau, Manchester, In 1933, Nelson said a design Patrol. The measure authorized a participants in the Bunion Boyle, Clayton, McCausland for a tourist court came to him force of 125. But due to budget Derby transcontinental foot race and Manchester. The former in a dream after he saw a musical constraints, the agency originally arrived in St. Louis. Once again, McKinley Bridge Route would fountain at the Chicago World's consisted of 55 officers and a few promoter CC Pyle didn't get the become Optional 66 in July Fair. Across 66 from the tavern, civilians. welcome he expected. The St. 1929. records played over a loudspeaker August 20,1931 - The first Louis Chamber of Commerce as colored lights lit the fountain. April 10, 1929 - The Pierce- clover leaf interchange west of refused to pay Pyle's $12,000 fee, His "Dream Village" was in Pennant Company opened the the Mississippi River opened at so he routed the racers south of business until 1977. Big Chief restaurant and tourist MO 77 (Lindbergh) and Watson downtown and attempted to pass cabins on Route 66 (Manchester December 13, 1930 - New Road just south of Kirkwood. through quietly. But huge crowds Road) at Pond, now Wildwood. Lindbergh Boulevard (MO 77, Watson Road became Route 66 greeted the runners anyway. With 62 cabins, the tourist court Later US 66) between St. Charles in 1933. Route 66 was moved July 2, 1928 - Paving was was one of the largest in the Rock Road at Pattonville and to Lindbergh Blvd. in 1936 and completed on Route 66 between state. The motel units are gone, Lemay Ferry Road at Mehlville Watson became City Route 66. Springfield and Strafford. but the restored restaurant is now was dedicated. E.E. Cramer, Mainline Route 66 came back to Between 1926 and 1928, Route the Big Chief Road House. secretary of the Missouri State Watson in 1955.

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Visit Hooker Cut, Elbow Inn and BBQ Pit, the 1923 Steel Trestle Bridge, Gascozark, and buildings and architecture from the past. Some have been revitalized; others are left standing as they were over forty years ago. Pulaskl Great photo opportunities include county breath-taking scenic overlooks, the unique- missouri USA ness of the Uranus complex, and the giant A welcome place in America's Heartland. Frog Rock boulder overlooking 66. Plan to stay the night in one of forty properties, offering comfortable stays,many of which are www.seert66.com Order a FREEVisitor Guide located right along Route 66. 877.858.8687 ·download the Self- Guided Rt. 66 Auto Tour print edition or audio version from our website·

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and Winifred Pratt ran it until 1963, when Pauline Roberts and her husband Hallie took over. Pauline married Harold Armstrong in 1988 and Connie Echols purchased the motel from Harold's son in 2009. Now restored with modern amenities, the Wagon Wheel is the oldest continually operated motel on on Highway 66 about a mile Route 66. west of the city limits.

March 22, 1936 - The Route December 3, 1940 - Work 66 West Bypass in Springfield, began on a 68,000 acre Army Missouri opened.Bypass 66 used training center among the Kearney Street (now MO 744) wooded hills of the Big Piney May 23, i932 - The US 66 Pacific and Gray Summit. Route to the West Bypass (US 160) River Country. Budgeted at $35 bridge over the Meramec River 66 was shifted from Manchester and then south to the Chestnut million dollars and designated at Times Beach was completed. Road to the new highway. Expressway. as the 7th Corps Training Area, With its trusses on the bottom to it would be located a few miles August 26, 1933 - Dozens February 25, 1938 - 1he provide an unimpeded view of off US 66 and was expected to of St. Louis County business the river, the bridge carried US 66 Carthage Press newspaper accommodate 32,000 men with owners asked the State Highway reported that Arthur Boots until Interstate 44 was completed 434 barracks. Commission to designate in 1967. It served Times Beach of Independence, Kansas had Manchester Road as "US 66 January 3, 1941 - The War until the town was leveled due to purchased a piece of property North" or "Optional 66." The Department announced that dioxin contamination in 1983 and at US 66 & 71 (Garrison & "50-North Highway 66 the post under construction in then carried traffic to Route 66 Central). Before long, he began Association" later took their fight Pulaski County would be named State Park. It was closed in 2009 construction of the original eight- to Washington, where they were in honor of the late Major and the long work of saving the room Boots Court, designed in turned down. a streamlined modern style with General Leonard E. Wood, hero bridge began. of the Indian Wars and the Spanish ~ July 16, 1935 - Route 66 in attractive black glass and green August 31, 1932 - Work began American War who served as the St. Louis area was re-routed neon accents. on the first project by the State Army Chief of Staff from 1910- across the Chain of Rocks Bridge of Missouri within the City of May 31,1939 - A pavilion 1914. Because of the remote following MO 77 (Dunn Road) St. Louis. State funds paved constructed by the CCC location, the GIs began referring and then south on 77/Lindbergh Watson Road from the city overlooking Route 66 and the to it as "Fort Lost in the Woods." to Kirkwood Road.The route via limits to Chippewa Street and Meramec River east of Pacific Gravois, Chippewa and Watson August 10, 1941 - A fiery crash Chippewa to Brannon Avenue. A was dedicated in honor of Lars became "City 66." Another on Route 66 near Hazelgreen State Supreme Court ruling had Peter Jensen. Jensen was the first "City" route ran from the Chain killed nine soldiers and a civilian cleared the way for state projects resident manager of the Missouri of Rocks Bridge over Riverview, truck driver. Six other soldiers in big cities if the route was a Botanical Garden Arboretum, Broadway, Calvary, Florissant, were burned. It happened when continuation of a state highway now the Shaw Nature Reserve. Hebert, 13th and l Zth Street. a military truck crossed the and the area was not densely He also headed up the Henry center line and collided head developed. March 7,1936 - The Wagon Shaw Gardenway Association, on with a tracror trailer loaded • Wheel Cabins in Cuba, Missouri which beautified Route 66 May 31,1933 - Six people paid with paint. Traffic on US 66 had opened. St. Louis stonemason Leo between the Botanical Garden 40 cents each to tour Lester Dill's increased by 400% since the Friesenhan designed the beautiful and the Arboretum. Meramec Caverns near Stanton construction of Fort Leonard cabins with the rock exteriors as a classic tourist attraction was May 23, 1940 - The first Wood. In Phelps, Pulaski and for owners Robert and Margaret born. With no time to construct drive-in theater in the St. Louis Laclede Counties at least 54 Martin. They sold in 1946. John a parking lot, Dill promoted it as area opened. The Manchester people were killed in crashes in the world's "first drive-in cave." Drive-In closed on June 18, 1967 1941, including I9·soldiers. A promotional genius,Dill is and the site is now West County September 12, 1941 - The said to have invented the bumper Center at 1-270 and Manchester Missouri Highway Department sticker. He also claimed that Jesse Road. opened bids on a project to James used the cave as a hideout. June 11, 1940 - The St. Louis construct a four-lane divided August 5, 1933 - The last Daily Record reported that John highway and relocate US 66 section of the New Watson Carr and architect Adolph through Hooker Hill in Pulaski Road-Highway 66 west of St. Struebig were planning a motel County. The project included Louis opened to traffic. The final with ten two-room cabins at a a 1I8-foot cut through a portion of the 32-mile roadway cost of $7,000. Carr had bought limestone bluff, the deepest cut opened was four miles between 29 lots in the mostly undeveloped ever attempted on a highway in Marlborough Manor Subdivision Missouri.

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Constructed by Flexer Drive- Kingshighway. The landmark most of the money was never Ins, it covered 18 acres, could closed in 1992 and it was torn found. accommodate up to 800 vehicles. down in 1995 to make room for a Builder's Square that was never July 19, 1955 - Route 66 February 25, 1948 - Fire built. The site was redeveloped in through St. Louis was rerouted to demolished the Diamonds 2004 as the South town Centre. cross the Veteran's (King Bridge). Restaurant and closed Route 66 for several hours. A streamlined new building for "The World's Largest Roadside Restaurant" December 7, 1941 - US entry was ready in 1950. That structure into World War II resulted in became the Tri County Truck a big drop in leisure travel on Stop after the Diamonds moved Route 66. Tires and gasoline to Interstate 44. The 1950 were rationed, but the highway building stands vacant at present was considered vital to national day MO 100 and Rte AT. defense and work continued on the four-lane section in Pulaski September 21, 1948 - Ford vice- County. president Benson Ford dedicated the firm's $12 million plant December 20, 1944 - Pres. on Highway 66, near Lambert Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Airport. Concern that Florissant December 6,1951 - Lily-Tulip The highway using the Chain of the Federal-Aid Highway Act, would annex the plant led to the chose Springfield as the site Rocks Bridge and crossing North authorizing designation of a founding of Hazelwood. The for a new factory. The plant on St. Louis County before turning 40,000 mile "National System plant closed in 2006 and has been Glenstone would employ about south on Lindbergh Boulevard of Interstate Highways." The demolished. 1,700 people and the entrance to Kirkwood was designated as measure provided no funding for was designed to look like a paper "By-Pass 66." construction. December 11, 1948 - The first cup. It became Sweetheart Cup "Steak and Shake" restaurant ~ October 15, 1955 - The Third April 22, 1946 - Capitol Records and then was acquired by Solo in in Missouri opened at 6622 Street Inter Regional Express released a new single by Nat 2004. The plant closed on March Highway 66 (Chippewa) in St. Highway opened between Gravois King Cole. Bobby Troup starred 11,2011 and the new owner of Louis. It was the 26,h restaurant and Washington Ave. in St. Louis. composing the building removed the cup in the chain founded in 1934 by The two mile long expressway "ROUTE 66!---" the song while entrance. AH."Gus" Belt in Bloomington, carried US 50-66 and is now part moving from Illinois. A Starbucks occupies the June 22, 1952 - The Chain of of 1-44. The second post war Pennsylvania to site today. Rocks Bridge was the first of eight expressway to be built in St. Louis Los Angeles with stops on a cross-country caravan saved the average driver about ten his wife Cynthia. September 22,1949 - The 66 promoting the movie the "Will minutes exiting downtown. Near St. Louis, Drive-In Theater at Carthage Rogers Story" and dedicating Cynthia gave him opened, showing "Two Guys Route 66 as the Will Rogers June 29,1956 - Pres.Dwight D. the line,"Get from Texas." The drive-in could Highway. The caravan dedicated Eisenhower signed the Interstate Your Kicks on accommodate 400 vehicles and markers honoring Will at the Highway Act, setting in motion Route 66." A few had a seating area for 18 people. state lines along the route and one a record $33,480,000,000 road- days after they arrived in LA in It closed in 1985 and was used as at Palisades Park in Santa Monica. building program. At the time February 1946, Troup successfully a salvage yard before restoration plans called for a 41,000 mile pitched the·unfinished song to was completed in 1997. September 28, 1953 -Six-year- network of limited-access roads Cole. old Bobby Greenlease, son of a March 10, 1950 - Frank Dalton, linking 90% of all cities with wealthy Kansas City auto dealer, November 5, 1946 -The hero of who claimed to be 102 years populations of more than 50,000. was kidnapped.A $600,000 the first bombing raid on Tokyo, old, appeared in a Franklin The federal government would ransom was paid but the boy Jimmy Doolittle, flew his own County courtroom seeking to pick up 90% of the tab. had already been killed.Suspects B-25 into the airport at Vichy, change his name to Jesse James. Bonnie Brown Heady and Carl August 2, 1956 - Missouri Missouri. A motorcade sped Meramec Caverns owner Rudy Austin Hall were arrested in St. became the first state to award a him to a town 12 miles away on Turilli btought Dalton to live in Louis, where Hall had spent time contract with the new interstate Route 66 that had been known a cabin at the cave and reaped the with a hooker at the Coral Court. funding. The first contract signed as Centerville prior to 1944. publicity. The judge ruled that if Mobster Joe Costello was tipped was for work on U.S. Route 66, Jimmy was the guest of honor at Dalton was Jesse James, there was off and led Patrolmen Louis now Interstate 44, in Laclede the celebration of the town's new no evidence his name had been Shoulders and Elmer Dolan to County. That same day, a contract name -Doolittle. changed in the first place. make the arrest. But half of the was awarded for the Mark Twain September 26,1947 - The August 24,1951 - St. Louis ransom money never made it to Expressway and a new Missouri 66 Park-In on Watson Road Mayor Joseph Darst cut the the police station. Heady and River Bridge at St.Charles. On in Crestwood opened with a ribbon opening the distinctive Hall died in the gas chamber in August 13, Cameron, Joyce and showing of "Lady Luck" starring South Town Famous Barr store at . December. Dolan and Shoulders Company began work at St. Frank Morgan and Barbara Hale. City Route 66 (Chippewa) and were convicted of perjury and Charles, the first project to begin

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June 19, 1963 -City Route was completed. It was a 4.1- 66 (By that time Business 66) mile segment of Interstate 244 between the Chain of Rocks between Page Avenue and Olive Bridge and downtown St. Louis Boulevard. In 1971, the entire via Riverview Boulevard, route was designated as 1-270. Broadway, Calvary, Florissant 1-255 was used east ofI-55 and Avenue, 13'h and 12'h Street was in Illinois to keep 1-270 from eliminated. intersecting itself at Pontoon Beach. actual construction under the plant closed in July 2009 and was October 2, 1965 - The 66 Interstate Highway Act. demolished in 2011. By-pass around St. Louis was November 9, 1967 - U.S. 66 was eliminated. Beginning in 1955, moved from the Veteran's (now March 21, 1957 - The first five August 1, 1960 - Work began the bypass crossed the Chain of King) Bridge over the Mississippi stores opened at Crestwood Plaza on the first section of the Rocks Bridge and then followed at St. Louis to the newly in suburban St. Louis. Over the "Circumferential" Expressway roday's Dunn Road, turning south constructed Poplar Street Bridge. next 15 years, the population replacing the 66 By-Pass around at Lindbergh to join Route 66 The fourth Route 66 Mississippi of Crestwood would multiply St. Louis. The first segment ran at Kirkwood. This was actually River crossing, the Poplar Street tenfold. The taverns, motels, for 14 miles between Riverview the main line of Route 66 from Bridge carried the route until gas stations and trailer parks on Boulevard and Interstate 70. It 1936-1955 while the Gravois- 1977. 66 would give way to shopping was finished in October 1962 Chippewa-Watson route was centers and big box retail stores. and designated as Interstate 270. February 26, 1970 - The Old designated City 66. The section from 1-70 to 1-44 was Chain of Rocks Bridge was closed April 15, 1957 -The state originally designated as 1-244 and October 22, 1965 - President for repair work on a hole at the highway commission announced completed in 1967. Lyndon Johnson signed the east end. It never re-opened to plans to eliminate the notorious Highway Beautification Act, traffic.Since the new bridge "Dead Man's Stretch" of July 29, 1962 - A nine-mile which called for control of to the north had opened in Lindbergh (By-Pass 66), between stretch of Interstate 44 opened outdoor advertising, including September 1966, traffic had fallen Dorsett Road and Olive. The between Eureka and Gray removal of certain types of signs, to JUSta few hundred cars per day. plans called for a cloverleaf Summit, west of St. Louis.The along the Nation's growing interchange at Page Boulevard. new four-lane replaced the June 1, 1971 - Bob and Ramona Interstate System and the existing Eleven people had died and 63 "Death-Lane" three-lane stretch Lehman purchased the Munger Federal-aid primary system. were injured there in 1956. of U.S. 66 between Sylvan Beach Moss Motel in Lebanon. • The act made it harder for small on the Meramec River and the August 30, 1958 - The first businesses on old routes to June 5, 1971 -The Six Flags Twin Bridges over the Bourbeuse. McDonald's in Missouri opened advertise. Over Mid-America amusement at 9915 Highway 66, Watson park opened in Eureka. The park Road, in Crestwood. Bill Wyatt included the "Super Sports on and partner Don Kuehl brought Route 66". The cars traveled on the golden arches to St. Louis. The a specially designed track. They first store was a walk-up location were self propelled and free- only at first and a McDonald's is wheeling. still located there today. October 21, 1971 - John October 18, 1958 - The Missouri Dausch died and John's Modern Highway Department approved Cabins near Arlington began their the controversial route for the slow deterioration. Dausch and proposed Interstate 44 through October 5, 1962 - Interstate 44 December 4,1965 -A 16- his wife Lillian bought the former St. Louis. The plan called for a by-passing Springfield was opened mile segmen t of Interstate 44 Bill and Bessie's Place in 1951 14-mile route between the Third to traffic. The new section ran in Lawrence County opened, and changed the name. Dausch Street Expressway and US 66 at eight miles between Glenstone completing the four-lane divided became known as "Sunday Sylvan Beach on the Meramec Avenue and Hazeltine Road. roadway from Sunset Hills (west John" for selling beer on Sunday, River. The route paralleled Drivers could now travel on a of St. Louis) across the state. Aouting the local regulations. Lafayette Avenue and then continuous four-lane highway September 1, 1966 -The new followed the Frisco tracks through from Sylvan Beach at the 1-270 Chain of Rocks Bridge Shrewsbury and Webster Groves. Meramec River to Springfield. over the Mississippi north of July 1, 1959 - The new Chrysler October 9, 1962 - On behalf of St. Louis was opened to traffic. Assembly Plant on Highway all the Route 66 states, Missouri Almost immediately, toll takers 66 in Fenton began operation. petitioned MSHO to renumber on the historic old bridge to the The first models produced there the portions of I-55, 1-44, 1-40, south said traffic was off by 80 were Plyrnourhs, Dodge Darts 1-15 and 1-10 replacing US percent. and Chrysler's compact Valiant 66. The request change them May 20, 1967 - The last model. At the time, St. Louis was to Interstate 66 was denied section of the Circumferential the second largest producer of because it wouldn't adhere to the Highway in St.Louis County automobiles in the nation. The Interstate numbering system.

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December 19, 1972 - Interstate August 29, 1977 -St. Louis 44 was opened to traffic berween became the first major US city Interstate 55 and Laclede without an amusement park as Station Road the "Chain of Rocks Fun Fair" in St. Louis, park closed. The park on the bluff completing overlooking the Chain of Rocks Interstate 44 Bridge opened in 1924. The park across the state. faded after Six Flags Over Mid Route 66 was America opened in 1971. now mostly obsolete, June 26, 1981 - The John although the Carpenter film, "Escape from last section New York" opened. The movie June 26, 1985 - Route 66 66 Association of Missouri (in Pulaski was largely filmed in St. Louis officially passed into history as and MoDOT resulted in the County) was with the Chain of Rocks Bridge, the American Association of State installation of over 300 brown not bypassed Union Station and other sites Highway and Transportation signs identifying the route. filling for 1997 New York City, decertified the last 1,162 miles of until 1980. July 3, 1991 - The first Historic which in the movie had been the route remaining, from I-40 at 66 Shield in Missouri was June 25, 1974 - Route 66 from turned into a maximum-security Sanders, AZ to Scotland, East of installed at Kearney Street and Chicago to Joplin was officially prison. Joplin. Removing the signs was Glenstone Avenue in Springfield. decertified. The action was "All in the interest of progress," October 27,1982 - A leaked deferred until 1977 because parts said the chairman of the group's August 20, 1993 - The Coral EPA document listed "various ofI-55 in Illinois were not yet up route and numbering committee. Court Motel closed its doors for streets in Times Beach" as to interstate standards. the last time. The owner said contaminated with dioxin. From July 24, 1985 - The last Route it just wasn't worth it to spend February, 1975 - The U.S. 66 1972-1976, the town had paid 66 signs came down in Missouri. the $1 million in needed repairs. signs were removed from Gravois, salvage oil dealer Russell Bliss Without ceremony, Highway The Coral Court was known for Chippewa and Watson Road in to spray the dusty streets with Department workers removed its art moderne design -- and St. Louis. The section built by oil once per month. The oil the shields from the I-44 turn-off the attached garages. It was torn the state, from Brannon Avenue was salvaged from a chemical at Scotland to the Kansas line down for a subdivision. to 1-270 became SR 366. For company and contained dioxin, and on the 1-44 business Loop in Joplin. • the time being, Interstate 44 in a chemical used in Agent Orange. October 10, 1993 -The Missouri would also be marked "66-Park-In" Theatre in December 3,1982 - The with US 66 signs. Cresrwood closed. Environmental Protection March 12, 1975 - The Madison, Agency wrapped up soil testing March 19, 1994 -About 100 Illinois Village Board had at Times Beach. The next day, people watched as the screen at accepted a bid from a Michigan the rampaging Meramec River the 66 Park-In came down in a firm to demolish the Old Chain inundated the town. cloud of dust. The drive-in was of Rocks Bridge for $103,000. being demolished by the Spirtas December 23, 1982 - The But a sudden dip in steel prices Wrecking Company to make residents of flood ravaged Times made it more trouble than it was way for a National Supermarket. Beach were told not to return to worth to demolish the old bridge. their homes. Dioxin levels were June 11, 1995 - Spirtas ~ March 14,"1975 -r- Fire destroyed reported to be 100 times the safe Wrecking completed demolition a landmark building at 3917 level. of the Coral Court to make Lindell in St. Louis that housed February 22,1983 -The room for the Oak Knoll Manor the Automobile club of Missouri. Environmental Protection January 1, 1990 - The Route Subdivision. One unit was AAA placed the markers when Agency announced that the 66 Association of Missouri was partially reconstructed at the the federal highways were entire town of Times Beach founded with more charter Museum of Transportation in originally designated. So all the would be bought out and leveled members than any other state. suburban St. Louis. US Routes through St. Louis at a cost of $33 million. It's stated mission, "To preserve, June 26, 1997 -The where routed past AAA. ptomote and develop Old 66 in December 14, 1984 - Red's controversial incinerator used to Missouri." Today, association January 24, 1977 - The Giant "Hamburg" in Springfield destroy the dioxin contaminated members reside in nearly every remaining Route 66 shields closed. Sheldon "Red" Chaney, soil from Times Beach and state. berween St. Louis and Scotland, credited with creating the other contaminated sites in just east of joplin, began to first drive through restaurant July 10, 1990 - Governor John Missouri was closed down and come down. The route berween window, said there wasn't Ashcroft came to Waynesville the cleanup declared complete. 1-44 Exit 15 and St. Louis was enough room on the sign for to sign legislation designating Some 265,370 tons of soil were decertified in 1974 but the action the "er." Immortalized in a Route 66 as a historic highway, incinerated at the site. The had been delayed while Illinois song by the Morells, Red's was authorizing appropriate signage. Times Beach site was turned completed Interstate 55. demolished in 1999. A joint project of the Route over to the State of Missouri.

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April 3, 1997 -The restored 66 November 6, 2010 - The classic May 22,2014 - After a $1.3 Drive-In at Carthage re-opened. sign at the Munger Moss Motel million renovation, the historic The last survivor of the six in Lebanon blinked on for bridge at Devils Elbow was re- drive-in theaters that once bore the first time since a complete opened. The bridge was closed the Rome 66 name, it opened restoration. The sign at the hotel in October, 2013 for the long in 1949 and closed in 1985.It operated by Ramona and Bob awaited project. then was used as an auto salvage Lehman was restored with help October 27, 2014 - The yard until owner Mark Goodman from the Route 66 Association Gardenway Motel at Gray began restoration. of Missouri eon Heritage Summit closed. Louis Preservation Committee and Eckelcarnp, owner of the a cost-share grant from the Diamonds, built the motel in National Park Service. the 1940s. The motel took its May 8, 2012 - The historic name from the Henry Shaw Boots Motel in Carthage re- Gardenway. The big Gardenway designation provides funding for opened.It had barely escaped the letters on top were added after improvements with 80% federal wrecking ball when sisters Debye the construction ofI-44. Harvey and Priscilla Bledsaw money and a 20% local match. December 18, 2014 -The bought it in 2011. Restoration April 1, 2008 -The World's Missouri Department of took place with the aid of private Transportation ordered the Largest Rocking Chair was donations and a National Park deteriorating Route 66 Bridge completed at Dan and Carolyn Service Route 66 Corridor over the Gasconade River closed, Sanazaro's Fanning Route 66 Preservation Program grant. Ou tpost, west of Cuba on Rome triggering an omcry among The neon sign was restored and June 5, 1997 -The Old Chain roadies Plans now call for the 66. The official dimensions are reinstalled in 2013. of Rocks Bridge re-opened as 42' 1" tall, 20'3" wide, and a bridge to remain standing next the world's largest pedestrian weight of27,500 lbs. It held the July 10, 2013 -The to a newly constructed span. and bicycle span. Trailner record until August 2015, when a resrwood Plaza Mall closed. Incorporated spent 4 million 56 foot tall chair was constructed A combination of dollars on renovations to make it in Casey, Illinois. However, that neglectful ownership, a part of a network of trails. • chair does not rock . competition from June 12, 1997 -The renovated other centers and Best Western Route 66 Rail May 4, 2009 -The Missouri a lack of Interstate Haven Motel in Springfield Department of Transportation access killed the mall, opened the Route 66 themed opened. Gordon Elliott took over which was demolished welcome centers on Interstate the fading landmark in 1993. in 2016. 44 west of Conway. The nation's It was originally the Rail Haven September 18,2013 first solar roadway panels were Motor Court, opened in 1938. - A bulldozer tore installed there in 2016. September 11,1999 -The into the landmark former site of Times Beach October 29, 2009 - MoDOT Midway Cafe in Cuba. was re-dedicated as Route 66 closed the Route 66 Bridge at Constructed in the State Park. The last residents Times Beach.The department 1920s, it was operated moved out in 1986, after dioxin removed the deck in 2013 in by Allyne Earls contarninafion was discovered. hopes of buying time to find an starting in 1934. She The buildings were leveled, and agency willing to take over the never closed the doors. the site sealed off for 17 years. span, which connects to Route 66 t.Loui Blues hockey great oel Picard owned the State Park. January 22,2015 - Gary March 7, 2005 -The Red Cedar Midway from 1976 to 1983. Inn at Pacific closed its doors. Turner died at the age of70. Turner was known for sharing Former bootleggers James and Bill Smith built the Red Cedar stories and greeting his "friends for life" at his replica Sinclair in 1934 with logs from their station at Gay Parira, west of farm.Ginger and James Smith III restored the Red Cedar and ran it Halltown. Constructed in 2004, from 1987 until 2005. Gary's Gay Parira paid homage to a gas station that stood at the November 9, 2005 - The location from the 1930s until Missouri Highways and 1955. Transportation Commission voted to designate Historic May 31,2016 - The restored Route 66 as a Byway at the Jensen's Point Overlook on request of the Rome 66 Route 66 east of Pacific was Association of Missouri. The dedicated.

missouri66.org 19 Jllli the green book THE BIBLE OF BLACK TRAVEL BY JOE SONDERMAN

ROUTE 66 WAS THE ROAD TO ADVENTURE AND A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM, BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE. DURING THE JIM CROW ERA, BLACK TRAVELERS FACED INCONVENIENT, EMBARRASSING AND SOMETIMES LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS. TRAVELING REQUIRED EXTENSIVE PREPARATION AND INFORMATION WAS HARD TO COME BY. MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS SIMPLY AVOIDED TH E SMALL "SU N DOWN" TOWNS, ALL-WH ITE COMMUNITIES THAT USED THE LAW AND INTIMIDATION TO KEEP BLACKS OUT. NAT KING COLE SANG "GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66," BUT HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WELCOMED IN MOST HOTELS ON THE ROUTE.

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elp came in the form of a little Jim Crow conditions still prevailed along much green book,"The Negro Motorist of Route 66 during its heyday. Deadly race riots H Green Book," usually just known as had swept Springfield, Missouri in 1906, East St. the "Green Book."This guide listed service Louis in 1917 and Tulsa in 1921. There was still a stations, hotels and motels, restaurants and real fear of lynching in the Ozarks and the KKK other businesses willing to serve black people even held rallies in Fantastic Caverns, a tourist during the era of segregation.In addition to attraction north of Route 66 outside Springfield. hotels, the guide often pointed travelers to According to newspaper accounts, crowds in "tourist homes," private homes made available Missouri antagonized the black runners during the to travelers by their African American owners. 1928 "Bunion Derby" transcontinental footrace, Known as the "Bible of Black Travel," the and the men kept close together for protection.

Green Book was published from 1936 until Sadstacrion Guaranteed The 1930 census found that 44 of the 1964 by Victor H. Green, a letter carrier 89 counties along Route 66 were Sundown from Harlem, New York. Green wrote that '{our ~Ioncy Refunded Towns, with some posting signs, passing laws 11'(' Have Thousands of it was designed to "give the Negro traveler Snli,\/ied Cuuomers or using physical intimidation to keep blacks

information that will keep him from running ST. lOUIS, MO. out. Researcher James Loewen found that the into difficulties and embarrassments." Green Missouri towns of Carterville, Cuba, Marshfield, A 1959AD FOR A SHOE SHOP IN ST.LOUIS WAS ONE was inspired to create the guide after seeing OFTHE LARGER ONES IN THAT EDITION. MOST OF Shrewsbury, St. Clair, St. James, Sullivan and Webb THE LISTINGS IN THE GREEN BOOK WERE A SIMPLE other publications devoted to aiding Jewish LINE OR TWO OFTEXT. (NYPL) City could all be described in that manner. travelers. Most services for black travelers were in the big The Green Book started out as primarily a guide to the New city of St. Louis, and those were mostly confined to downtown, the York metropolitan area and quickly grew nationwide, becoming Mill Creek Valley or on the North Side away from the main route. an essential part of traveling for minorities. It was distributed by The Mill Creek Valley was cleared so thoroughly for a 1950s urban Esso Gas Stations, which welcomed black business and hired black renewal project that it was referred to as "Hiroshima Flats," and workers but were mainly located in the Eastern US. Many black thousands of blacks were displaced. travelers carried portable toilets because they were uncertain if they A glance at the Green Book editions digitized by the New Yo~k would be allowed to use the restroom at other stations. Public Library shows there often were no entries at all between

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Rolla and Springfield. Weary drivers might fall asleep at the wheel before they found accommodations. But some editions listed tourist homes in Lebanon, operated by Mrs. Missouri Warfield, Mrs. J. Osborne, Mrs. Ann Wilson and Mrs. Eliza Turner. They were all gone by 1952. The editions from 1961 to 1963 do list the Hilliard Motel and restaurant operated by Less and Margie Hilliard. It consisted of six cabins located behind the St. Clair Motel west of town, which the Hilliard's also ran for a time. The motel was in business for 25 years and the restaurant was known for displaying Margie's huge doll collection. The Sr Clair Motel still stands but Hilliard's Motel and the restaurant are gone. played exhibition games in Springfield. A single cabin is all that During World War II, blacks were fighting for our freedom, but remains today and it is used for storage by a law firm. were being denied services back home. Soldiers at Fort Leonard Alberta Ellis of Springfield was a true entrepreneur who served Wood with a weekend pass often travelled 80 miles over Route the African American communiry and travelers. About 1956, she 66 to Springfield, where Graham's Rib Station at Washington and bought the old Ciry Hospital on Benton Street JUSta few blocks off East Chestnut welcomed everyone. Owned by James and Zelma the City 66 alignment over St. Louis Street. It was also only Y2 block Graham, it opened in 1932 and closed in 1967.The African off Chestnut Expressway, which became City 66 in the 1960s. The American couple developed the Wishing Well Motel specifically to building was converted into a hotel with about 15 rooms. serve black soldiers. It offered six cabins faced with Ozark rock and In an oral history recorded in 2014 with Tom Peters, Dean of arranged in a semi circle behind the restaurant. Library Services at Missouri State Univer iry, Alberta's grandson Irv • The Wishing Well and Graham's were convenient for performers Logan Jr. recalled that he worked as a bellboy and "go-fer" at the at the Shrine Mosque. Duke Ellington, Little Richard and Pearl hotel. Alberta's had a barber shop, beaury salon, a dining room and Bailey were among the entertainers who stayed there. The Kansas a nightclub called the Rumpus Room. Alberta's was also convenient Ciry Monarchs of the Negro Baseball League stopped in when they to the Shrine Mosque and performers such as Ray Charles, Little Stevie Wonder, Frankie HOTEL t. Lymon and the Teenagers and at King Cole mmod lion stayed at the hotel. There were athletes too, including the Harlem Globetrotters. Alberta also operated a "juke joint" called the Crystal Lounge near the present day MO 266 and 1-44. Irv.said he wasn't old enough to join in the fun with the adults, but he was old enough to clean up after them. Alberta advertised in the Green Book and African- American newspapers, but travelers spread the word up and down the highway just as effectively. Alberta later opened up "The Farm" ten miles west of Springfield on Old Route 66. (Now MO 266) it was a ten acre working farm that provided produce for the hotel. There were accommodations there for when the hotel was full and African-Americans could camp in safery at the roadside park across the highway. Initially, Victor Green personally visited most of the places advertised in the Green Book. But when it got to be too much, he was able to use his connections with postmen all

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In an introduction to his publication, Victor Hugo Green wrote that "There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published.That is when we as a race will have equal rights and privileges in the United States.It will be a great day for us to suspend this publication, for then we can go wherever we please, and without embarrassment." He did not live to see that day. Victor Green died in 1960 but his widow Alma continued publication until 1966.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked the end of legal segregation, and made the Green Book obsolete, just as Victor had foreseen. Alberta Ellis knew that when segregation eased that everything she and her family had worked for would disappear. Irv Logan recalled that she said "when people have the right to go anywhere they want to go, they don't have to go where they must go. And if it's new, people are going to go check it out" Most of the businesses listed in the Green Book were demolished long ago. But survivors are now being recognized as culturally significant and worthy of preservation. The National Park Service across the country to keep the information up to date. The 15,000 Route 66 Preservation Program is involved in documenting Green books distributed annually also proved to white business owners Book sites and a list is available on line. A documentary on the that black travelers were an untapped market. Green Book is currently in production and it was also the subject of By the time the Green Book marked its zo- anniversary Green a children's book. Green Books are extremely rare, with at least one was able to write "Through this guide a number of white business example fetching over $2,000 at auction. places have come to value and desire your patronage. He continued. If they were still with us, James and Zelma Graham,Alberta "Without your support (the guide) could not have remained in Ellis and Victor Green might look back and say we have made great business and no doubt would have failed as others did."We trust, in strides - but there is a long way to go. the future, your faith will be justified as in the past; and in so doing, you will tell others of your satisfaction."

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BY JOE SONDERMAN WITH DOUGLAS SCHNEIDER

DOUGLAS SCHNEIDER GRACIOUSLY WROTE AN ARTICLE ON FIVE VESTIGES OF ROUTE 66 IN THE VALLEY PARK AREA. HE TOLD OF A SIGN, A MEMORIAL PET CEMETERY A SURVIVING ROUTE 66 BUSINESS AND A STRETCH OF ABANDONED PAVEMENT. INTRIGUED, WE BEGAN DIGGING AND DECIDED TO EXPAND ON HIS FINE EFFORT, DISCOVERING THE HISTORY AND ATTRACTIONS ALONG A TEN MILE SECTION BETWEEN THE TWO MERAMEC RIVER BRIDGES.

oute 66 moved here from its original alignment along Manchester Road after the "New" Watson Road was Rcompleted in 1933. It crossed the largely undeveloped flood plain between the towns of Valley Park to the north and Fenton on the south before picking up the path of the Antire Road towards Eureka. Most of the roadside businesses at that time were identified as being in Valley Park. In 1935, the new highway from St. Louis to the Missouri Botanical Garden Arboretum at Gray Summit was named the

Henry Shaw Gardenway in honor of the botanical garden founder. Shaw would not allow the garden to be officially named in his honor, although that never stopped us from informally calling it Shaw's Garden. Route 66 was a 200 foot wide parkway, lined with trees, shrubs and flowers. Gardenway markers were unveiled THIS T.RACT OF 140 ACRES WAS at Chippewa and the St. Louis City Limits, at Buder Park, near DONATED TO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS Allenton, at the bluff in Pacific and at the Arboretum. Interstate 44 BY C.A. BUDER AND LYDIA D. BUDER. ._.i wiped out much of this beauty. HUSBAND AND WIFE. IN 1917AND 1919. In the 1830s, Thomas Dougherty operated a ferry near the point TO BE USED AS PUBLIC WELFARE 1f1.~~ where Fishpor Creek empties into the Meramec River in St. Louis AND RECREATION GROUNDS. County. The Missouri Pacific Railroad pushed west in 1853 and a H.ENI\.Y SHAW GAI\.DENWAY ASSOCIATION community grew when the Meramec Station was established.The town was also called Quinette, but by the 1890s was known as Valley Park. To the south,Fenton was founded on the west bank of the river at the Gravois Road by William Lindsay Long in 1818 and named

24 Show Me Route 66 for his Welsh grandmother,Elizabeth Fenton Bennett. An eight block area now known as Old Town Fenton was incorporated in 1874. But with no railroad, it remained a sleepy town that didn't even bother to hold municipal elections between 1890 and 1955. This area where the Meramec River bends sharply was a popular recreational spot decades before Route 66 opened it up to the masses. The Missouri Pacific and Frisco Railroads first brought the wealthy from St. Louis eager to escape the smoke and pollution of the city. Beautiful resorts at the Meramec Highlands and Castlewood catered to thousands of people during the summer in those days before air conditioning. Castlewood is now a state park. The railroad built the Frisco Hotel at Valley Park in 1893 and by the turn of the zo- Century over 85 trains per day stopped there. Even so, the population remained about 150. Valley Park became a boom town beginning in 1902.Thomas Morrison, a nephew of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and other Pittsburgh capitalists choose Valley Park as the site of the

may have contributed to unprecedented flooding in neighboring communities of Eureka, Fenton and Arnold in 2015. Interstate 44 was swamped at Route 141 and nine miles of the superslab were closed. Route 66 and now Interstate 44 first cross the Meramec River at the site of Sylvan Beach, a recreation area opened in July 1932 by Frank and Ethel Wiemeyer. Sylvan Beach included a huge . swimming pool and offered sightseeing boats, horseback riding and dramatic theater, an auto racing track, a miniature steam train and a roller rink in a big tent. Frank Sagehorn operated the restaurant for many years. The site is now Emmeneger Park.

five million dollar St. Louis Plate Glass Company factory. A new company town was constructed and the population exploded to 3,500 in five years. Valley Park thrived until the evening of August 21, 1915, when the Meramec River went on one of its rampages. 'The town and glass factory were wiped out. The river was four miles wide and 2,000 people found themselves homeless. Most of the workers moved to a new plant at Crystal City, Missouri or another glass factory at Rossford,Ohio and the population of Valley Park dropped to about 500. The resorts on the Meramec River faded after World War II. The concrete rubble of the abandoned glass factory was removed in 2002 after the body of a murdered young girl was found there and the Arnolds Grove Trail has been constructed atop the site. Floods struck Valley Park again in 1919, 1945, 1973, and 1982. The Flood of 1993 was not as severe at Valley Park, but the waters rose again in 2008. A levee now protects the town but its height

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Fenton had remained a small town until construction of the the hill, now known as Buder South and the low lying area near the Chrysler Plant on Highway 66 in 1959 brought suburban sprawl. river known as Buder North. The Henry Shaw Gardenway sign was The town expanded from its original eight blocks to an area of 5.5 saved and moved to a restroom pavilion in the southern portion of miles and new streets honored Chrysler with names like Fury Drive, the park, one of the vestiges of Route 66. Valiant Drive and Dart Lane. The truck assembly or North Plant The eccentric Gerhardt H.Timmerman was at the forefront of the opened in 1966 and at one point the two plants employed over vegetarian movement. He established a sanitarium at Valley Park and 6,000 people on the 341 acre site. Production at the South Assembly published a book called the "Pocket Doctor" that promised to tell the Plant ended on October 31, 2008. The North Plant closed on July reader how to remain healthy without drugs. He also established the 10, 2009 and the complex was demolished. Valley Park Milling Company in 1874. Helen Lincks was dedicated to her pets and her Hilltop Motel on Highway 66. Three of the pets were lost when the office and residence burned in 1987 and the motel was leveled for the Maritz Headquarters. But a plaque at the entrance to the parking lot of the sprawling campus on South Highway Drive still marks the peaceful site of her pet cemetery. It reads "The people of Maritz fondly dedicate this pet cemetery in memory of Helen L. Lincks who operated the Hill-Top Motel on this site from 1956 to February 25, 1989 and whose devotion to the pets of the Hill-Top Motel and their care shall ever be remembered."

The original Valley Park Elevator and hardware store was rebuilt after an 1887 fire and then sold to a farmer's co-op. Former Valley Police officer and Municipal Judge Richard Grellner took over in 1976 and he passed the store to his sons Steven and Jeffrey. The store is currently run by Steve Grellner, and Jeffs son Christopher, as well as Rich's (judge's) wife Gloria. The intersection of Route 66 and Vandover Road (MO 141) was occupied by a couple of gas stations, the Red Coach Inn and Kessler's, which was known for "chicken and frog dinners." In 1935 Buder Park is located on the south bank of the Meramec River an area of 160 acres surrounding the intersection was incorporated across from Valley Park. Gustavus A. Buder and his wife Lydia as Peerless Park, with a population of 53. Residents said the gave 70 acres to the City of St. Louis for use as a park in 1917, and move was to stave off annexation by Valley Park and to authorize another 70 acres was added in 1919. But the city never developed a stop sign at the dangerous intersection. Peerless Park became the property and G.A. Buder Junior gave it to St. Louis County in chiefly known for feuding officials and fireworks stands before the December 1954. Interstate 44 split the park into the upper area on municipality was dissolved in 1999.

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the Army sold 2,000 acres to Washington University for the Tyson Research Center. St. Louis County was able to acquire 456 acres. At that time, a lone elk apparently missed during the Army roundup was spotted roaming the site and the park received a new name. More elk would be brought in and were joined by a heard of bison. Today, visitors can drive through to enjoy the wildlife in Lone Elk Park. The World Bird Sancruary adjoins Lone Elk Park and is one of the largest facilities for conservation of birds in North America. Visitors can see over 200 birds in their natural environments, many rare and endangered. The mission this unique atrraction includes education, captive breeding, field studies and rehabilitation. Animal lovers can also visit the Endangered Wolf Center at Tyson Valley, founded by celebrity wildlife expert Marlin Perkins in 1971. The center offers educational programs and works to reintroduce wolves into their native habitats. Lone Elk Park marks the start of the largest remaining continuous green space in St. Louis County, which includes Castlewood State Park and the Al Foster Trail as well the Forest 44 Conservation Area, Route 66 State Park and the Beaumont Boy Scout Reservation. There are probably more vestiges of Route 66 along the way, waiting to be discovered.

Douglas E. Schneider is a Route 66 tour guide who writes a blog at puppyoutojbreath.blogspot.com He has compiled many of his experiences and stories into a book, called "Puppy Out of Breath, " available on the website puppyoutojbreath.com. •

Valley Mount Ranch was founded as 66 Riding Stables by Ben and Frieda Kraus in 1936. The ranch offered rodeos, trail and hay rides as well as boarding for horses. Ben and Frieda had eight children: Shirley, Gene, Darwin, Gerry, Lavern, Norita, Dottye, and Sheila. All them helped run the ranch. The original boarding facilities and approximately 30 acres were separated to establish Kraus Farms in 1986. Douglas Schneider tells us the northern edge of Valley Mount Ranch faces the old Antire Road, which predated Route 66. A remnant of old road heads west, crosses a creek, and disappears into Forest 44 Conservation Area. It's easy to park near the creek and to wander this segment of old pavement that dead ends in the middle of the forest. For over a century, Thomas Ranken Jr. and David Ranken owned most of the land south of the Meramec River and west of Meramec Station, some 12,000 acres. They allowed nearly all of it to revert back to forest, which is why 1-44 cuts through a large green belt today. According to historian Esley Hamilton, the fact that one family owned the land made public acquisition easier. The US government took over the central portion of the Ranken Estate in 1941 for an ammunition testing and storage facility, the Tyson Valley Army Powder Storage Farm. Part of the land had also been occupied by a quarry and the town of Minke. After the war, the St. Louis County Parks Department acquired the site and Tyson Valley Park opened in 1948. In 1951, a herd of elk from Yellowstone was released in the park. The government reclaimed the land during the Korean Conflict and the elk were shot for safety reasons in 1958-1959. In 1963,

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JUST FIVE MILES FROM THE SPRAWL OF SUBURBAN ST. LOUIS IS AN AUTHENTIC COUNTRY AND WESTERN DANCE HALL AND SALOON WHERE THEY LIKE THEIR BEER COLD AND THEIR COUNTRY MUSIC WITH AN AUTHENTIC TWANG. STOVALL'S GROVE ROCKHORSE SALOON IS TUCKED AWAY ON A REMNANT OF ORIGINAL ROUTE 66 RIGHT-OF-WAY ALONG FOX CREEK IN WILDWOOD, ON THE SITE OF THE HISTORIC HAMLET OF HOLLOW.

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Siting Stovall's Rockhorse Saloon is like entering a 1940s homes for the twins and their families. After World War II, during or 1950s time-warp, where the honky-tonk sounds are which Delmer earned six bronze stars, the twins returned to Stovall's Vperformed live on a stage flanked by a pair of wagon Grove and founded the Missouri Valley Boys. wheels, saddles, musical instruments and a couple of paper wagons The band became well known throughout the Midwest and in advertising Stag Beer. It hasn't changed much in decades and Nashville but always called Stovall's Grove home. The Missouri owners Dennis and Liz Elze like it that way. Valley Boys, with an ever-changing lineup over the years, still Stovall's Grove hosted the Route 66 Association of Missouri's perform here today. They have played with John Hartford, the October meeting and members got a chance to sample the fantastic composer of "Gentle on My Mind," and "Little Miss Dynamite" barbecue and learn a little more about the fascinating history of this Brenda Lee, who had to stand on a crate to reach the microphone. spot where it is all about tradition and the music. Stovall's is a labor On November 12, 1958, a fire blamed on faulty wiring of love for Dennis and Liz, the manager Steve and server Kate. They destroyed the original tavern. The business moved to the adjacent are proud to have updated the place, but kept the historical ambience intact. Their website describes the place as # "quaint without being Hoosier" where rr: l/r J "a lady can be comfortable alone." -I F -- According to a historical marker on the site, the village of Hollow was originally known as Deutsch Hollow by the German settlers who included "Dutch" Charlie Paffrath. In 1834, Dutch purchased property from Samuel Harris and opened a tavern on the Manchester Road, which became the state road connecting St. Louis with the capitol at Jefferson City in 1839. Hollow was a relay point on the old St. Louis and Jefferson City stagecoach line where a grove of sycamores offered a respite from the cramped quarters and bone jarring ride of the stage. During those days, Hollow had two taverns, the other operated by early settler William Barcold. In 1849, the Henry Hencken Family purchased the present site of Stovall's, and donated land for a school house. The Hencken home is adjacent to Stovall's Grove and is now owned by the Wildwood Historical Society. A post office was established at Hollow in 1884 and discontinued in 1904. In 1935, George and Mollie Stovall opened their tavern in a two story wooden building with the residence on the second floor. The shady grove became home to their children, twins Delbert and Delmer, Hazel and Chester. At the time, taverns and dance halls of rural Missouri were a place for families to eat, catch up on the local gossip and dance. Route 66 had moved away from Manchester Road a couple of years earlier, but the road still carried US 50. In the mid 1900s Hollow had two general stores, one operated by the Hencken Brothers and the other run by Harry Poerrner. There was also a shoemaker, a harness maker, a carpenter shop and two blacksmiths, one of which was Joseph Tieman. Traffic dropped substantially after Manchester lost the US 50 designation in 1955 and became Missouri 100.A new alignment constructed in the 1960s would leave Stovall's tucked away down an embankment, barely visible from the main road.The old right of way became a dead end gravel road called Stovall Lane. Over the years, the Stovall Family added an outdoor barbecue screen house and remodeled chicken houses were converted to

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with roundabouts, sidewalks and decorative lighting. Stovall's still calls itself the "Home of Country Music" and remains a genuine honky-tonk and a popular venue for events.Make sure to come out for one of their monthly Sunday barbecues in the shady grove. Wednesdays are open mic nights where all pickers and grinners welcome to perform a few songs or maybe take part in a traditional jam session. Dance lessons are offered on Thursdays. On the weekends, the crowd is dressed in full fledged country attire and Dennis hand picks bands from around the country to perform. Guitars, fiddles, bass, drums, and banjos all join in. Music styles include classic traditional country, rockabilly, bluegrass and 1950s small dance hall and barn. The dance hall had wood burning stoves, and 1960s oldies, sometimes with the occasional modern country or benches along the walls, farm style windows that were ptopped rock hit sprinkled in. At Stovall's, it is all about the music, just as it open for ventilation, no indoor plumbing, and an outhouse and a has been since 1935. small bar at one end. Dennis was a St. Louis County Police officer patrolling the area when he became friends with Delmer Stovall in If You Go: Bring your boots! Live music shows are Wednesday, Friday the 1970s. He carries on the legacy. and Saturday nights with doors opening at 6·00pm and music starting at Today, Stovall's Grove and the community of Hollow are part of 8:30pm. They are also open Thursday and one Sunday each month with rapidly growing Wildwood. Subdivisions with their winding cul- BBQ served. Stovall's Grove is Locatedat 18720 Stovall Lane, Wildwood, de-sacs are replacing the wooded land and Old 66 just to the east is Missouri 63069. 636-405-3024 [email protected] beginning to take on the characteristics of a typical suburban road

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ROUTE 661S THE MOTHER ROAD AND IT ISTHE MAIN STREETOF AMERICA FOR US, IT CAN BEA ROAD OF ESCAPE FROM TROUBLES. BUT FOR MANY, THEJOURNEYWAS ONE OF DESPERATION AND SURVIVAL. THE THOUSANDS WHO IMMIGRATED FROM THE DUST BOWL ARE THE BEST REMEMBERED. BUT MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA TOOK ROUTES 61AND66TO MIGRATETO CHICAGO IN HOPESOF FINDING WORKAFTERTHE MECHANIZATION OF COTTON PICKING.

he blues music they brought with them was spawned by the Blues Highway, a road that was and still is larger than life itself. the toil in the fields, racism in the towns, and work on the This 90th Anniversary year of Route 66 is also the 20th Anniversary Tchain gangs. The music gave Chicago a soul. Some, like year that my lovely wife, who for some reason put up with me for Henry Townsend, made careers in towns along the way. Others, all these years, have taken a side trip down Highway 61 to the King such as Muddy Waters, gained international fame. There were also Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. those who were content to play on Maxwell Street, or joints like Highway 61 blazes a 1,699 mile path from Pigeon River the Harlem Avenue Lounge just off Route 66 in Berwyn, which has Minnesota to New Orleans.The Journey to the Delta heads South "kept the blues alive for 24 years". A lucky few contracted with Chess down 61 through Suburban St. Louis, through St. Genevieve, Cape Records, or Delmark Records, or Bobbin Records out of St. Louis. Girardeau and New Madrid, to the bottom of the Missouri Bootheel Route 66 in Chicago was the end of the journey for many at Steele. legendary bluesmen, but the journey began on US 6l. Route 61 is

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Our Anniversary trip began a mile South of Steele at a huge gas station/convenience store called Car Macs. The place offers bad wine, Case Knives, a line for lottery tickets and a line for everything else. Leaving Car-Macs with the first RC Cola and Moon pie in hand, the journey continued South on Highway 61. Just down the road is a concrete Arch that straddles the Missouri Arkansas border. It was constructed in 1924, two years before US 61 was commissioned. On the Missouri side of the road was the State Line Lounge, where Howlin' Wolf played more than a time or two. Heading through Arkansas, Highway 61 comes within a few miles of the home of Johnny Cash in Dyess and the town of Twist, where BB King saved a guitar from a fire in a nightclub owned by a gal named Lucille. An original Stuckey's waits off I-55 at Exit 14. The next exit is at Marion Arkansas and a left on US 64 offers a stop for great meal at John's Shake Shack. It is awesomely tacky, pays black velvet homage to Elvis, and serves up some great catfish and a great pimento cheese sandwich! Interstate 55 continues across the Mississippi River and into Clarksdale, Mississippi is the epicenter of the Mississippi Delta. Memphis. The Interstate exits to the right and US 61 meanders It was home to Ike Turner, Muddy Waters and Tennessee Williams, along before crossing I-55 again south of downtown. Take the US as well as Earl and John Lee Hooker, just to name a few. This is 61 Exit (Exit 7) and head south. After a few miles of faded motels, where an education on the Delta Blues begins. perhaps with WDIA on the radio (the station that played the The Delta Blues Museum, the world's first dedicated to the first Elvis single) watch for a muffler man alongside the highway history of the blues, tells the story from the chants heard in the and a sign welcomes all to Mississippi on Highway 61: The Blues cotton fields to Stevie Ray Vaughan's laser shooting guitar. The one Highway. room cabin where Muddy Waters was born is on display along with There are two guides to help hit the Blues spots in the Delta. the tombstone for Mississippi Fred McDowell. Morgan Freeman's • One is a map of the Mississippi Blues Trail, where dozens of markers Ground Zero Blues Club is nearby. It's a great place to hear local have been placed highlighting performers, places and events in favorite bluesman "Super Chikan" Johnson, who ends every song Mississippi Blues History. Hard copies are available at the Gateway with "somebody shoot that thaing." Across the street is an eclectic to the Blues Museum on Highway 61 just north of Tunica. Also eatery called Delta Amusement Restaurant. It is a breakfast nook, recommended is the book Blues Traveling by Steve Cheesborough, bar and juke joint that looks like it was thrown together in an an excellent guide to the significant blues sites in Mississippi. abandoned store front. But the food is great and the people who work there are some of the friendliest on the road. Cat Head is another must stop site in Clarksdale. This book and record store is owned by Roger Stolle of St. Louis, who has done a lot to promote the region and its blues heritage. His record label has St. Louis favorite Big George Brock as a client, and he produced an excellent documentary called "M is for Mississippi" featuring many of the local artists. He offers concerts in front of his store after the King Biscuit Blues Festival. Around the corner on Second Street is the Rock and Blues Museum, operated by Theo Dasbach. It has tons of blues history, including acetates made by Robert Johnson. There is an authentic Juke Joint behind Ground Zero called Red's. It is open late, serves flat beer, has just a few chairs, and is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. In other words, it is an authentic juke joint!They offer some of the best blues music on the planet there in an atmosphere that adds to the experience. Over on Sunflower Street is the Riverside Motel, a place as iconic to blues Modern US 61 in the Delta is a four-lane highway. The original fans as the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico is to alignment parallels it a mile or so to the East. The route passes Route 66 roadies. Casino Row in Tunica, which can leave one smiling or feeling the This wonderfully disheveled place was once the G.T. Thomas blues, and also goes through Lake Cormorant, home to St. Louis African American hospital. Blues legend Bessie Smith, who bluesman Tommy Bankhead.The Gateway to the Blues Museum, starred in the 1929 film version of"St. Louis Blues," died here on located 13 miles north of Tunica, is definitely worth a stop. Also in September 26, 1937 after an auto accident on US 61. The story Tunica on the current Highway 61, is the amazing Blue and White persists that she was turned away from a white hospital, which isn't Cafe, a culinary institution since 1924 and located in an old Pure true. The hotel lodged blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson Gas Station. II and Ike Turner.

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At the intersection of Old US 61 Greenville is west of Cleveland on US (SR 161) and Old US 49 a sign reading 82. It's the home town of Johnny Winter "Crossroads" marks the spot where and the famous Doe's Eat Place, as well legend says Robert Johnson sold his soul as the birthplace of the Muppets creator to the devil in exchange for the ability Jim Henson. To the east of Cleveland is to play the blues guitar. At the newly Dockery Plantation, the place where blues restored bus station where many an artist fathers like Charlie Patton found release in started their journey north, we inquired music after hard days sharecropping. about the Crossroads. The attendant From Clarksdale, head back up looked out the window, pointed at Highway 61 19 miles to the intersection the intersection, and said "there's one" with US 49. Turn left on US 49 and take Also at that iconic intersection is Abe's the rattling slab of Portland concrete west Barbecue, serving customers since 1926. 10 miles, across the Mississippi River, to From Clarksdale a turn west on US Helena, Arkansas. Since 1985 this has 49 leads to the Hopson Plantation, been the home of the King Biscuit Blues which is now a neat place to stay. Next Festival. Held on Main Street, the festival is Tutweiler, where some claim the Blues offers musicians on three stages and the were born when We. Handy heard a street corners. We were lucky to hear man playing a one string bottleneck Cedell Davis, who played at the first King guitar and singing "Where The Southern Biscuit Festival, remind us of what the Crosses the Dog." US 61 south heads Blues is all about. He had to endure life as through Shelby, the home of St. Louis a sharecropper, contracted polio and had to Bluesman Henry Townsend, and Shaw, learn how to play guitar with his left hand. home of Honeyboy Edwards. East of His legs were crushed during a stampede at Marigold is Po'Monkeys, one of the a gig in St. Louis. Cedell has lived a long greatest juke joints in the delta, as well and hard life. as the ultimate photo op! Past the Delta Cultural Center on Cleveland has the Mississippi Grammy Cherry Street is the broadcast booth for Museum, an interactive wonder. Quinn the King Biscuit Time on KFFA Radio. and I attempted to create a Blues Song Broadcast by Sunshine Sunny Payne since with Keb Mo, and we traced the lives and influence of several 1951, it is the longest running radio show in America. The show musicians on the interactive "Mississippi Music Table."There was featured Helena Resident and Harp player extraordinaire Sonny Boy also an excellent exhibit dedicated to the life of Stevie Ray Vaughn Williamson for several years. The broadcasts are available on line.

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King Biscuit 2016 featured Helena native Lonnie Shields, the iconic John Mayall, Lindsey Alexander, and Toronzo Cannon. The crowd was awed harp player Charlie Musselwhite, who recorded his first album 50 years ago! He has been to the bottom, playing for tips on Maxwell Street, to the top, with amazing albums like "Ace of Harps". But it was Beverly "Guitar" Watkins who stole the show. Despite being well into her 70s, her guitar playing is amazing and her energy endless. Her career was resurrected in part because of the Music Maker Foundation, which assists the many blues musicians. Music Maker assisted another blues musician named Eddie Tighner, who made an album called "Route 66". On the last night of the festival, Bubba's Music Corner, at Missouri and Cherry Streets, was packed with folks seeking autographs and buying CDs by the trip on Sunday confirmed it. It was Shamrock, McLean,Glenrio; it artists that inspired them. The Buster Brown sign over the Hendrix was Steele, it was Tunica, it was Jericho. Howlin' Wolf needed to be Shoe Store has been restored and its neon is now a blazing homage standing on the corner, reminding us that "If you ain't got nuthin, to Brown Shoe and all those great people who made the legendary you got the blues." American brand. And so, our escape over, Quinn and I headed back up 61, back A resident reminded us that it is nice to see all the people. But to reality, back to our blues. We will be heading to the Delta again the next morning it would be possible to hear a pin drop. A return next year and we would highly recommend that you do the same!

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PLEASE JOIN US IN WELCOMING THE FOLLOWING 22 NEW MEMBERS TO THE ROUTE 66 ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI. THESE NEW MEMBERSHIPS WERE RECEIVED DURING THE PERIOD OF OCTOBER 1,2016 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2016.

Your support of the Association is highly valued and we look forward to your involvement in Association committees and projects as well as the enjoyment of Association activities. Our membership base continues to grow with over 1,060 proud members, and we thank each and everyone of you for your partnership with us.

Welcome aboard and we hope to seeyou along historic Route 66in Missouri!

• Beacon Car & Pet Wash - Pacific, MO • Kimberly Kottemann - Suwanee, GA • Richard Beamer - Ellisville, MO • Thomas Moran - Arnold, MO • David Courson - Lebanon, MO • Jeff Otto &Georgia Holling -Rock Hill, MO • Thomas Cox - St. Louis, MO • Joyce A. Perkins - St. Louis, MO • Fred & Red's - Joplin, MO • Norman Plant -St. Louis, MO • • Don & Karin Garrett - Springfield, MO •Rose Reinholt - Manchester, MO • Thomas Hackett - Paxton, MA •Debi Ross - Greenwood, IN • Giesla Hoelscher - Saint Paul, MN •James Smith - Fenton, MO • Dennis & Marilyn Hogenmiller -St. Louis, MO •Dean &Martha Stewart - Bloomfield, MI • Randall Ann Homan &AIBarna - San Francisco, CA • Webb City Cafe - Webb City, MO • Kristina Kadlecova - Fredericktown, MO •Martin J. & Diane J. Wiesler - High Ridge, MO

This New Members Report was prepared by Robert Gehl, Director 0/ Membership Services. If you were a new member during this time period and your name does not appear here, please contact me at 636-458-4585 or [email protected] will be included in the next edition o/this report.

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A Special Event Place - Call (417) 501-8035 SUNSET HILLS, M.....,O;...... ----l MISSOURINEON COMPANY TWIN MOTORCYCLE & TATTOO Since 1934 - Custom Signs), Billboards, Home of the Route 66 Tattoo CITY OF SUNSET HILLS Digital Displays - (800) 7158-1778 UNIVERSITY PLAZA HOTEL www.sunset-hills.com AND CONVENTION CENTER CRESTWOOD-SUNSET HILLS AREA MITCHEM TIRE & WHEEL Full-Service Convention Facility on Route 66 Selling Quality Tires on Route 66 Since 1939 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WAVERLY HOUSE GIFTS & GALLERY ourchamber.com MOTHER ROAD ANTIQUES & UNIQUES Fine Art and Fine Craft Gallery route66carcruise.org Visit the "BIGGEST" Little Antique Shop on Route 66! - www.waverlyhouse.com 10 AM-4 PM Apr I-Oct 1; Winter by cliance/appt. HOLIDAY INNST. LOUIS SW - ROUTE 66 (417) 861-9917 WILSON'S CHUCKWAGON Ne"fly Remodeled - At intersection of Watson Rd. Burgers & BBO on Route 66 at 1820 W. Kearney & Lindbergh Blvd. MOTHER ROAD MOTORCYCLES (417) 862-1101 Late Model, Low Mileage Motorcycles www.WeBuyHarleys.com UNION,MO STANTON,MO O'REILLYAUTO PARTS HUXEL'S AUTO REPAIR Visit www.oreillyauto.com MERAMEC CAVERNS Used Parts for Old Cars 1940 to 1980 Open Everyday! Oldest Stop on Route 66 INDIAN HARVESTTRADE OZARKS PUBLICTELEVISION KOZK-Springfreld / KOZJ-Joplin On Route 66 - www.indianharvesttrade.com VISIt us at www.optv.org STRAFFORD, MO ROUTE 66 GREAT AMERICAN FLEA MARKET OZARKS TECHNICAL AUSTIN'S PUMPING SERVICE "Service is not a Department, it's an Attitude" Open Saturdays & Sundar.s - COMMUNITY COLLEGE On Route 66 at Junction 1-44 & US 50 Transportation Technology Department (417) 987-9914 BUSHMASTERS ROCKIN RACE PLACE QCMOTO VILLA RIDGE, MO Located at Exit 84 on 1-44 and Historic Route 66 - & HOT ROD MUSEUM Call (417) 862-4343 Located at MM #94 on 1-44 - The Place to Drink BOURBEUSE VALLEY HARLEY-DAVIDSON Eat BBQ, Sniff Nitro. Live Nitro/Jet Dragster ' Junction of 1-44 & Hwy 50 on Route 66 R&S MEMORIAL DECORATIONS Start-Ups on 'Saturdays Making Memorial Decorations Since 1959 SUNSET MOTEL Call (417) 732-6263 CHESTNUT PLAZA A Vintage Neon Night Scene along Historic Route 66! • At Corner of 1-44 and State Highway 125 REX SMITHOIL COMPANY Family Owned & Operated on CITYOF STRAFFORD WALNUT GROVE, MO Bypass Route 66 Since 1933 The Best Small Town on Main Street USA - Route 66 7C'SWINERY RJ'S ROUTE 66 Fine Wine & Mead in a Country Setting Route 66 Collectibles Made in the USA COMMON GROUNDS COFFEE & CAFE by Photographer Judy Walker - www.rjsroute66.com DELCOUR PROPERTIES WASHINGTON, MO ROUTE 66 BIKERGEAR Alice DelCour - (417) 839-2152 IRON SPIKE MODEL TRAIN MUSEUM ROUTE 66 CAR MUSEUM JOE'SROUTE 66 DINER Hand-breaded Pork Tenderloins, Located at Hwy 100 & High Street - (636) 667-3380 Classic & Sports Cars - 1624 W. College St - www./ronSpike.org Open Wednesday thru Saturday Hand-cut Onion Rings & Tater Fries Daily! STRAFFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROUTE 66 HOTDOGS WAYNESVILLE, MO www.route66hotdogs.com Call (417) 894-7653 for Information on 2014 "Route 66 Days" Event ALLSAFE SELF STORAGE ROUTE 66 MISSOURI TOURS STRAFFORD BRANCH LIBRARY Home-Business-Auto Climate Controlled Units - Step-on Guides for Motorcoach Tours - Call 573-774-3800 Call (417) 343-1567 Cruise down Route 66 to the Strafford Branch Library! CAVE STATE CRUISERS CAR CLUB SPRINGFIELD AREA TEAM LIQUORS Car Show the Weekend After Father's Day CHAMBER OF COMMERCE for our (573) 435-9297 Everywhere Should Be Like This - Call (417) 862-5567 Watch Vintage "LIQUOR" Neon Sign on 66! Route CITYOF WAYNESVILLE SPRINGFIELD-GREENE COUNTY THE CUTTING ROOM "On the Banks of the Roaring Roubidoux" LIBRARY CENTER on Historic Route 66! Drive Here to Research Route 66 and More! Give your hair a "Kick" on Route 66!! GET YOUR PICS ON ROUTE 66 WITH PICS SPRINGFIELD-GREENE COUNTY LIBRARY SULLIVAN, MO BY JAX LLC LOCAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT Historical Tours & Professional Photography Genealogy,Family Heritage, COMFY OZARK RENTAL HOME and Civil War Research Center! "Lod~ing for Route 66 Travelers on the Meramec HOPPERS PUB River'- Call 314-602-2389 "66 Brews on Route 66" - www.hopperspub.com SPRINGFIELD-GREENE COUNTY (573) 774-0135 LIBRARY STATION DU KUM INN RESTAURANT Cruise into the Library Station to view 66 1961! I LOVE ICE CREAM Car Serving Route Travelers Since and Train Memorabilia! (573) ~68-6114 "Get Your Licks on Route 66!" in Roubidoux Plaza SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI LONE OAK PRINTING CO. CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU HARRY'STIRE, LLC New Tires),Custom Wheels, & Tire Repair "Where First Impressions Count" - Birtlplace of Route 66 - Springfreld MO Call (573) 774-3001 1 (800) 678-8767 ' (573) 4615-4128 SCHMIDT AUTOCENTER LOST IN THE WOODS ANTIQUES SPRINGFIELD/ROUTE 66 KOA & COLLECTIBLES Great Camping on Route 66 Since 1972! "Late Model Pre-Owned Vehicles Since 1954" (573) 468-2233 l!.ptown Antigues in Downtown Waynesville STEAK 'N SHAKE Call (573) 433-2855 Famous For Steakburgers & Route 66! NONA'S KITCHEN "The Little Green House on Route 66 on the Square" (573) 774-2527

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46 Show Me Route 66 astNovember, Joplin celebrated to 90th birthday of the lobby of the Joplin City Hall to add the final, detailed the Mother Road. To commemorate this milestone, brush strokes, then sign their creations, as part of the birthday Lthe Joplin Convention & Visitors Bureau joined forces celebration. with two of Joplin's premier art organizations; George A. Spiva An additional work, an artistic Route 66 shield, Galena Center for the Arts and Connect2Culture. Together they (KS) 7th grader, Kayla Nash was added to the 90th birthday put out a public call-to-artist to create original works of art collection. A Route 66 branded cake and fruit punch were served depicting regional Route 66 landmarks. Three local artist were for the citizens who gathered for the final reveal. selected from the rough sketches they submitted. The artworks are now on display for public viewing, near the The artists, all from the Joplin area focused on painting local Thomas Hart Benton and Anthony Benton Gude murals, in landmarks. Tom Jones created an original work of the iconic the Joplin City Hall, 602 S. Main Street, located on the original Route 66 Drive-In in Carthage. J. Todd Williams, captured on Route 66 in downtown Joplin. canvas the unique architecture of the Charles Schifferdecker home (located in Joplin's historic Murphysburg neighborhood). Margie Moss brought to life the much traveled Rainbow Bridge More about Joplin - www.VisitJoplinMO.com which is just outside of Riverton, Kansas. Photo credit: Joplin Convention & Visitors Bureau Each of the artists began their projects weeks prior to Contact: Patrick Tuttle, 417.625.4789 the 90th birthday (November 11th), but came together in

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(THEN) Stovall's Grove was opened in 1935 by George and Mollie Stovall in the historic hamlet of Hollow, Missouri. Fire destroyed the original tavern in 1958. Performers who stopped in over the years include John Hartford and Brenda Lee, who stood on a soapbox to reach the microphone. The road in front of the tavern and dance hall in this view is original Route 66, now MO 100. A new alignment constructed in the 1960's would leave Stovall's tucked away down an embankment, barely visible from the main road. The old right of way became a dead end gravel road called Stovall Lane.

(NOW) Stovall's Grove Rockhorse Saloon still calls itself the "Home of Country Music" and remains a genuine hanky-tonk and a popular venue for events. Owners Dennis and Liz Elze have updated without destroying the tradition and ambience. The place remains a genuine hanky-tonk with great barbecue and live music.

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