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2 OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES
3 MEMBERSHIP MATTERS Robert Gehl
4 NEWS FROM THE ROAD
10 THE GHOST TOWN OF AVILLA, MO: CIVIL WAR, ROUTE 66, THE DEATH TREE AND THE SHADOW PEOPLE Cheryl Eichar Jett
14 THE NEW CARETAKERS: BARBARA AND GEORGE BLOOM AT GARY'S GAY PARITA Cheryl Eichar Jett
18 CHICKEN BASKET NEON SIGN RESTORATION & RELIGHTING Jim Thole
21 FIRST IN SHOES: THE BROWN SHOE CO. Kip Welborn
24 EDEN WAS PARADISE ON THE HIGHWAY Gary Sosniecki
30 END OF THE ROAD: 60 YEARS AGO, ROUTE 66 MOVED, BECAME 1-44 IN LEBANON Gary Sosniecki • 36 RAY WOODS TAKES A DIVE Joe Sonderman
39 NEW MEMBERS Robert Gehl 40 BUSINESS MEMBER DIRECTORY Robert Gehl 48 THEN AND NOW Joe Sonderman
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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 fu ryon 66(ci)ea rth Iink.net ji mmy52(ci)att.net tjp_666(ci)ya hoo.co m schulz(ci)htc.net
BOARDOF Jerry Benner Larry Frickenschmidt Jerry L. Law James J. Thole 1115Chatelet Dr. 2131 S. Farm Road 199 434 N. 5th Street 1264 Jade Wind Cir. DIRECTORS Ferguson, MO 63135 Springfield, MO 65809 Wood River, IL62095 Manchester, MO 63011 (314) 521-4255 (417) 861-2969 (314) 440-0040 (636) 227-2258 fjbenner(ci)mindspring.com Imfnations(ci)aol.com thelaw1(ci)sbcglobal.net 66thole(ci)sbcglobal.net
Michael Boggs Robert Gehl Bob Schwartz Diane Warhover 17529 Chesterfield Lane 1667 Timber Ridge Est. Dr. P.O. Box 498 418 Cloister Walk Phillipsburg, MO 65722 Wildwood, MO 63011 Osage Beach, MO 65065. Kirkwood, MO 63122 (417) 589-0023 office (636) 458-4585 office (314) 650 5767 (314) 965-5751 (417) 664-2768 cell (314) 971-6366 cell bobo bec k1(ci)msn.com warhoverdiane(ci)gmail.com michaelboggs(a)rocketmail.com rgehI66(ci)earthlink.net Mark Stauter David J. Eslick 309 Hutchinson Dr. 3311 South Elmira Rolla, MO 65401 Springfield, MO 65807 (573) 341-2932 (417) 889-9332 markcstauter(ci)gmail.com djeslick(ci)undata.com
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EAST or WEST? Which direction will Historic Route 66 take you in 20 18? Will it take you to the steps of the museum at The Art Institute of Chicago, taking time to savor Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" or perhaps the American art classics "American Gothic" by Grant Wood and "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper? Properly inspired, are you ready to head west down Adams and kick off your journey to the Promised Land? Don't forget to fuel the body after nourishing the soul with a skillet of delightfully fulfilling food at Lou Mitchell's. Or will you do an eastbound run? Perhaps you've seen the glorious vistas of the west via Route 66 but never fully explored the colorful character of Missouri's Ozarks or the lush farmlands of Illinois, with the intriguing • diversions offered along the way. Each of the eight states that are linked together via the our road at events in St. Charles, Lake of refreshed by the vibrancy of the road and Mother Road are uniquely individual in their the Ozarks, Villa Ridge and Cuba, among motivated to take further involvement in look, feel, and state of mind. others. Are you ready to come out and the mission to preserve America's cultural Whatever your choice or whenever you participate with us? Meet nice people who touchstone. decide to do it, Route 66 is ready for you to want to make new memories on Route 66? One other note of gratitude - as Team create your own mark and story of adventure. Make new friends and contribute to the Advisor for our Neon Heritage Preservation Be it for a one day or month-long trip, you'll growth of our organization? And remember, Committee team, our thanks are extended find unexpected treats awarded to those who increased interest and the corresponding to all of our members (new and renewing) take the time to slow down and talk to the economic activity it generates is one of the that have donated this year to our dedicated people. most important drivers to support on-going Neon Preservation Fund or our General In addition to the literal experience of preservation efforts along our highway. Preservation Fund. Truly every dollar traveling the road, how else can you share We had a wonderful complement of fully counts, as we've been able to build the story of Route 66? Have you considered gracious members give of their personal back up to over $3,000 in the Neon Fund a more active role in the work of our time and expense to help us this past year. for upcoming opportunities, especially if Association? Note I did use the word "work," In addition to my wife Yvonne, we've had we're able to secure a threatened sign for but it's truly a labor of love and passion to Ruth Keeney, Joe Sonderman, Bill Heger, future restoration, such as was the case two preserve and promote the special cultural Robert Schulz, Bill and Vicky Ferretti, years ago with the Motel St. Louis neon heritage of the Main Street of America. Brendan and Karen Gehl, Robert Schwartz, sign. Please consider a contribution when Please consider this a personal request Richard and Judy Walker, Dean Kennedy, renewing your annual membership as we for your support of our Association as we Ted Terbeek, John & Kristy Stiber, Gretchen seek to restore our neon sign heritage along close out the year and move into what we Eden, Larry and Lois Frickenschmidt, Route 66. As I like to say, these are signs expect to be a very busy year in 2018. We John and Alexa Schweke, Doug and Alice that illuminate the soul. anticipate having an Association booth at Gensler, and Tommy, Glenda, and Tonya Please drop me a note or give me a the Route 66 Festival in Shamrock, TX next Pike all contribute to our success. On call with your desire to help next year - July, the Route 66 Car Show in Berwyn, IL behalf of the Membership Committee and thank you for being part of our journey next August, plus the annual "Birthplace of our Association at large, I extend our deep together! Route 66" and International Mother Road appreciation to all who served this year and festivals in Springfield, MO and Springfield, who we count on to be there for us again. Hope to see you on the road! IL, respectively. We are also looking forward We'd love to have more members come Bob Gehl "TRVL66" to being represented at events promoting out and join us in the new year! You'll be
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Roadside Park before the start of the parade. He commented, "We are proud to be celebrating Route 66 and I am proud to advocate for tourism in Missouri. This festival is a shining example of how a community can come together and create something which benefits the entire state and brings in thousands of new visitors." The parade Grand Marshall this year was John T. Woodruff III, grandson of John T. Woodruff. The crowd along the mile-long parade route was estimated at 15,000. Part of the draw of this Festival was the music. The Festival opened at Noon on Friday with performances by Branson entertainers on The New Car Dealers of the Ozarks sponsored "Branson Experience Stage" on the Square with Branson acts performing both days. On the Aaron Sachs stage 12 local bands performed. The Festival weekend provided two Super Concerts-Big and Rich on Friday night and 3 Dog Night on Saturday night. Friday night also provided family entertainment by having a "drive-in movie," shown on the side of the Expo building. Saturday morning events started with 223 runners on the 6.6k Route 66 Run, a Poker Run out of the Aaron Sachs Motorcycle 2017 BIRTHPLACE OF ROUTE 66 FESTIVAL Village and the 451 cars started arriving and lining Route 66. One IS HUGE SUCCESS new highlight was the By David Eslick 15 classic cars inside of the Historic Shrine If you weren't in Springfield, Missouri on August 11 and 12, Mosque helping you missed what Woodruff Award recipient Robert Gehl described to promote the as "the largest festival on Route 66." Everything that takes place at "MotherRoadster," a this Birthplace Festival on the second weekend in August is on the 1932 Roadster being original Route 66 through the city. built to rafRe off at This seventh annual Festival drew a crowd of 53,000 spectators. next year's Festival with There was even a couple from New South Wales, Australia, Ron proceeds going to The and Rosemary Merritt, that brought a 1952 Chevy Delivery Van. Shriners Hospital. You Of course, they won the long distance award.There were 450 can see it and be able to other cars in the car show that traveled from Louisiana, Nebraska, purchase tickets at several Texas, Arkansas and Illinois. The first Festival drew 100 cars and auto events over the 1,000 spectators. The increase in cars and spectators is the result next year. of partnerships that the Festival Founders have forged with Aaron The festival was Sachs and Associates, Ozark on Two Wheels, KY3, the City of started to honor John Springfield, The Route 66 Association of Missouri,The Historic T.Woodruff, the Gillioz Theatre and The West Central Neighborhood Alliance. Springfield businessman Missouri Lieutenant Governor Parson, was among city officials and one of the men that that spoke to the crowd that gathered for a picnic in the Route 66 helped start, and name
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Route 66. A John T. Woodruff Award is presented each year to individuals that are outstanding supporters of Route 66. This year, we selected two of these individuals. The first is a familiar face to many of us. Robert Gehl is the Membership Director of the Route 66 Association of Missouri and we see him at almost any event along the Route in Missouri. His efforts have increased the number of Association members over the last 12 years from 500 to over 1,000 at present. He is also Team Advisor of the Route 66 Neon Preservation Committee that has helped restore a number of neglected neon signs in Missouri and Illinois. He says "This Festival is becoming one of the premier must attend events across all eight states." The second recipient is Rusty Worley, familiar to Springfieldians as "Mr. Downtown." He is the Executive Director of the Downtown Springfield Association and past President of the West Central Neighborhood Alliance, he is also an original Route 66 Festival Founder. His search for an event to help Jeff Schrag promote the opening of his "Mother's" Brewery put him in touch with Route As they say "the rest is history." Rusty says, "the Festival is a way to 66 Association of Missouri Board of Directors member, David J. entice people to come back and see the good things happening in Eslick and they came up with the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival, West Central and downtown. It has been exciting to see the entire held at the brewery on the original Route 66 through Springfield. Springfield community embrace our Route 66 Heritage."
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a huge pin hole camera with a long cardboard tube and then mounted it on an old cartridge box. At some locations along 1-44 or in the town of St. Clair, parking spots were going for $25. But the VFW generously offered free parking with food and drink available. When the big moment came, there was cheering and somewhere a gun boomed. Someone sang a few bars of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart," and in the distance Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was playing. Then it was silent. Even the roaring traffic on the interstate faded to nothing. The reflection on thunder storm clouds looking away from the sun and moon towards St. Louis created fantastic colors. Then, it was over and the crowd trickled slowly away. There were traffic delays afterwards, with the Missouri Department of Transportation reporting congestion on 1-44 eastbound most of the way from St. Clair to Eureka. But no major incidents were reported. Crews with MoDOT, local police and volunteer firefighters directed traffic from the old route onto 1-44. We observed delays on MO 47 at Union and Washington. If you missed it, there will be another total eclipse on April 8, 2024. While the path of totality will be to the southeast, anywhere from 90 to 99% totality will occur on Route 66 from Western Oklahoma through Oklahoma City, Joplin, Springfield, St. Louis and Chicago. Many of those who witnessed the majestic event at St. Clair were already making plans.
ECLIPSE ON 66
On August 21, they came from allover the world to get their eclipse on Route 66. For the Route 66 crowd, ground zero was the VFW Post 2482 at St. Clair, which was originally the Skylark Motel. Hours before the moon began its march across the sun, about a hundred people were preparing in a shady grove and large field next to the hall. This was the point where the longest path of totality crossed the old road. It lasted for 2 mins 41 seconds, nearly equal to the longest totality in the nation, which occurred in Southern Illinois. A glance at the license plates on the vehicles in the parking lot GASCONADE BRIDGE UPDATE showed many had come from Illinois, Arkansas and Oklahoma. By Gary Sosniecki Eclipse observers used everything from pinholes in cereal boxes to high dollar and hi tech photography equipment. An agreement for the Missouri Department of Transportation Swa Franzen and Nadine Pelicaen who came from Belgium were to turn over the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge to an "interested on a Route 66 trip and made sure they were there when the eclipse party" for rehabilitation probably won't be approved until early next darkened the Mother Road. Swa created one of the first websites year. dedicated to Route 66 and they had witnessed a 1999 eclipse in Supporters of saving the bridge were disappointed to learn the France. As the time neared, Swa said the birds would stop chirping longer-than-expected timetable on August 23 at a "Section 106 and the temperature would drop. Swa's digital photo equipment Consultation Meeting" at MoDOT's Lebanon Maintenance Facility. was able to zoom in enough during totality to capture sun spots "The interested party can't begin fund-raising until they have and even solar flares. Just a few feet away, a group had constructed possession of the bridge," Judy Wallmark, secretary-treasurer of
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the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge Guardians, told the group. But Hughes said, "once we transfer this bridge to a private entity, Wall mark said supporters had expected the bridge to change hands MoDOT has no control over the structure. With it being a private in September. bridge, we're out of the picture." Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires Meanwhile, MoDOT expects to let bids in April for the new agencies that use federal funds, such as MoDOT, to consider the outer-road bridge, which will be parallel and the same height as 1-44. effects of their projects on hi toric properties. MoDOT plans ro build a new outer-road bridge over the Gasconade River between and parallel to Interstate 44 and Route 66. Wednesday's meeting 2017 MATCHING GRANTS ANNOUNCED enabled Karen Daniels, MoDOT's senior historic preservation specialist, to put on the record that the project "will have no adverse The National Park Service, Route 66 Corridor Preservation effect on the Route 66 alignment and the Route 66 bridge." Program has announced the recipients of this year's cost-share grant More than 20 persons participated in the 50-minute meeting awards, and two of them are noteworthy for Missourians. The first - several by teleconference - including four board members of the is to the Trucking on Route 66 in Missouri Oral History Project Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge Guardians, which has been trying at the Missouri State University Libraries. The PSGrant is for to save the historic steel-truss bridge since it was closed for safety $5,105 and the reasons Dec. 18,2014. Cost-Share Match The meeting also included a variety of representatives from is $5,697. MoDOT, hisroric-bridge preservationists, other state and federal The Missouri agencies, Tommy Pike, president of the Route 66 Association of State University Missouri, and three board members from the Lebanon-Laclede Libraries, in County Route 66 Society. partnership with The Guardians have been working with an Iowa-based nonprofit, Ozarks Alive, Workin' Bridges, to assume ownership and rehabilitate the Route will conduct 66 bridge, although that organization was referred to only as the twenty oral "interested party" throughout the meeting. history interviews The name of the nonprofit "may be local knowledge, but with individuals we're not going to let it out until the (Missouri Highways and involved in the trucking industry along the Route 66 Corridor in • Transportation) Commission does," Daniels explained. Missouri from 1926 to 1985. Both audio and video will be recorded "Our commission has not signed off on it yet." and preserved, with metadata and transcriptions created for each MoDOT is 80 to 90 percent done writing a proposed legal interview. The final results will be uploaded to the internet and agreement for the interested party to assume ownership of the made freely available to researchers and members of the general bridge, project manager Troy Hughes said, adding that he hopes it public. This project will complement other oral history collections will be done in the next month or two. held by Missouri State University, other Research Route 66 After MoDOT and Workin' Bridges agree on the terms, it will be institutions, and the Route 66 Association of Missouri. presented to the commission for approval. Although the commission Kairlyn McConnell, Founder of Ozarks Alive and Media meets monthly, it can take two or three months to get on its agenda, Relations Coordinator for CoxHealth, observed,"when people which means the bridge may not change hands until next year. think of Route 66, they typically focus on the 'fun' aspects, such as But MoDOT officials assured the Guardians, that no harm will vacationers traveling across America.However, the road was integral come to the old bridge even if construction starts on the new bridge to our history in many other ways, such as economic expansion. before the deal is done. This project is a wonderful opportunity to preserve some of those "As long as we have an interested party or parties, we're going to stories before they're lost." continue to negotiate," Hughes said. Both audio and video will be recorded and preserved. But if no deal for the old bridge exists by the time the new bridge Metadara and transcriptions will be created for each interview. opens in the summer of2019, Hughes added, "at that point we'd The audio recordings, the video recordings, the meradata, and the have to make a decision." transcriptions will be uploaded to the Internet and made freely "I'd just like to see the process moving forward," the Guardians' available to researchers and members of the general public. This Wallmark said. project will complement other oral history collections held by "It is," Hughes replied. MSU, other Research Route 66 member libraries, and the Route Jax Welborn, the Guardians' liaison with Workin' Bridges, 66 Association of Missouri. For more information or suggestions stressed the need for an agreement so fund-raising can begin. She contact, Tom Peters, Dean of Libraries, Missouri State University, estimated that $2.5 million to $3 million will be needed for the Phone: (309) 660-3648, Email: tpeters@mis ouristare.edu. bridge to be restored for pedestrian and bicycle traffic and events The cost-share grant program provides grant assistance for such as car shows. eligible historic preservation, research, oral history, interpretative, "We'll need all of your help," she said. and educational projects. Grants are offered through an annual, Nathan Holth, webrnaster of HistoricBridges.org, pointed out competitive grant cycle. Since 2001, 139 projects have been awarded that "this is a very large project for any nonprofit to take on." He $2.1 million with $3.4 million in cost-share match, totaling $5.5 voiced concern about supporters not getting enough donations and million in public-private investment toward the revitalization of the MoDOT then tearing down the bridge. Route 66 corridor.
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Other grants will benefit the restoration of the Tropics neon FANNING OUTPOST RE-OPENS sign at Lincoln, Illinois, the Texas Route 66 Historic Properties Database, and on-line educational database for Route 66 in Could the record for the world's largest rocker return to California, a national Route 66 bridge assessment and prioritization Missouri? That's a cryptic hint dropped by the new owner of the project and "The Women on the Mother Road," a documentary film. Fanning 66 Outpost where the massive rocking chair resides. The Another grant will aid in the restoration of the Wilder's neon 46 foot tall rocker was built in 2008. It lost the record in 2015 to signage in Joplin. The NPS grant will provide $24,000 and the a chair in Casey, Illinois. However, the chair in Casey doesn't rock. owners will match that amount. The chair in Fanning originally did rock, but was welded in place In 1936, Verne Wilder opened "Wilder's Buffet" on Main Street so no one would be crushed. in Joplin,Missouri. The restaurant quickly became a thriving hot Ray Thomas, who owns the Route 66 Mercantile just up the spot serving fine and exotic foods such as rattle snake and Rocky road in downtown Cuba has purchased the closed outpost. He Mountain Oysters. Located just off of Route 66, the restaurant plans to re-open the Fanning Feed store, then establish a candy also served as a tourist information hub for the Ozarks Playground shoppe and re-open the Fanning 66 Outpost. Danny and Carolyn Association, an organization that promoted tourism throughout the Sanazaro opened Fanning Route 66 Outpost feed store, archery region. During WWII, the restaurant was popular with servicemen range, hunting supply store and souvenir shop in 2007 and then stationed at nearby Camp Crowder, and by 1950 the seating closed it in 2016. capacity of the restaurant had expanded to 750. It was during this According to Ron Warnick of the Route 66 News web site, the time that the name changed to "Wilder's Restaurant" and was open general store and feed store are going to stay the same for the most 365 days a year offering fine dining and cocktails, an exotic food part; however, the archery shop will be changed and more directed and candy counter, a gambling hall, and a tourism information towards tourists. Plans call for it to offer Gourmet Popcorn, center. While operations and seating have since scaled down, the homemade fudge, candy and lots of different sodas. Thomas said, restaurant remains open for business today. the rocker, now known as the Route 66 Red Rocker, will remain By 1950 Wilder's had installed two flashy neon signs to match and dropped a hint that the record might return in the future. its reputation. One of these signs was a large animated rooftop sign built specifically to attract the attention of Route 66 travelers. The rooftop sign reportedly "lit up the sky", but has been inoperable for CONGRATULATIONS TO SKIPPY'S over 20 years. The grant project will restore the sign to its brilliant, ROUTE 66 RESTAURANT authentic, animated appearance enhancing the neon landscape of By Glenda Pike Joplin's Main Street and Route 66. Skippy's Route 66 Restaurant near Leasburg, Missouri, reopened in July after a fire heavily damaged the old Route 66 BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS PASSES business in October 2016. Skippy stated "We have officially opened up! Good times to The Route 66 community in pull that switch for that open sign! It's been a long road, but I can Missouri suffered a great loss on August officially state on Skippy's 17, when former board member and site we are open! We have current Board Member Emeritus G. Joe missed you! We cannot wait SKIPPY'S Schulte Jr. of Florissant passed away. to see everyone!" Our sympathies are with his family The blaze scorched the and many friends. Joe worked hard to restaurant's bar and dining tI ensure that the route over Dunn Road area, while smoke and water GOOD FOOD FOR GOOD PEOPLE through Florissant wasn't overlooked. damaged other parts of In addition to his service to the the building. Owner Skip Route 66 Association of Missouri, Joe Sheleski vowed to rebuild and "make it nicer was a WWII Navy veteran who was an avid volunteer and civic again." Based on photos of intricate stonework leader in Florissant. He saw the community grow from a town of added to the building in May and reactions 1,000 to the 12thlargest town in Missouri. He was past-president of from those who have seen it, Sheleski has I.EA. and North County Inc, a past board member of the Rotary fulfilled that promise and more. Club of Florissant, Florissant Valley Sheltered Workshop, Florissant Skippy's originally was the Coachlight Inn, Chamber of Commerce, and T.E.A.M. opened by retired railroad worker Joe White Show Me 66 editor Joe Sonderman said that Mr. Schulte always and his wife Loretta in 1970. They sold it took part in the annual Valley of Flowers and Veteran's Day Parades, in 1988. After a series of short-time owners, decorating a 1957 Chevrolet. It seemed as ifhe knew everyone in (FACEBOOK, Sheleski bought the place in 2000, initially SKIPPY'S) the crowd. Membership Director Bob Gehl said he assisted the renamed it the Route 66 Inn, and it became association with membership recruitment within the community a favorite of locals and Route 66 travelers. as well as his service to the board. Joe had 13 grandchildren and 15 Skippy's continues to serve "Good great-grandchildren. His encouragement and assistance with Show Food/or Good People. " Me 66 Magazine was appreciated and will be missed. .. ' 8 Show Me Route 66 •••••••••••• 1 news from the road 00
ROAD AHEAD PARTNERSHIP HAS NEW SITE
The Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership has launched a new website, accessible at: www.route66roadahead.org. The purpose of the website is to assist in achieving the mission of the Road Ahead Partnership by fostering a sense of collaboration amongst Route 66 stakeholders, private organizations, government entities, and everyone across the country and internationally who is interested in preserving, promoting, and fostering education and research regarding Route 66. The website includes: • Background information regarding the mission and desired strategic outcomes of the Road Ahead. Partnership, an overview of the organization's structure and information regarding its Board of Directors. • Information detailing steps being taken by the Working Groups, Advisory Groups, and Task Forces of the Road Ahead Partnership, to achieve the organization's desired After bringing numerous Christmas holiday festivals and strategic outcomes. home tours to Joplin, Historic Murphysburg Preservation, Ine. • Resources that can be used by those interested in helping in cooperation with the Joplin Convention & Visitor's Bureau is revive, preserve, and restore Route 66. excited to announce this year's event, "Home for the Holidays ... • Minutes of board meetings held by the Road Ahead Board in Murphysburg," on December 8 and 9, 2017. The Historic of Directors. Murphysburg District in Joplin, is located on Historic Route 66 • Policies adopted by the Board of Directors Route 66. (Sergeant/Moffet/Byers, between First & Sixth Streets). • Road Ahead Partnership Bylaws. The event starts off on Friday night with Bourbon Tasting For additional information, please contact: Bill Thomas at at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, 505 South Byers Avenue. The theroadaheadragmail.com or, The Rt. 66 Road Ahead Partnership, beautiful building built in 1923, in the Beaux Arts Style has Post Office Box 166, Atlanta, Illinois 61723. been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990. Historic Murphysburg Preservation, is proudly working with Gary Grantham, the proprietor of a new homegrown Missouri Ozark 66 BUSINESS REMODELS company, the White Mule Distillery for the Bourbon Tasting By Glenda Pike portion of the event. The evening activities will include guided tours of the Murphysburg attraction and surprise living history portrayals. When you travel Route 66 through St.Clair, Missouri, be sure "Home for the Holidays in Murphysburg" continues thru and "Do yourself a flavor" and stop at Dana's Shaved Ice and Ice Saturday afternoon, from 2-6:00 p.m. with the Holiday Homes Cream on Kitchell, and have your pick of ice cream or shaved Tour of Joplin Houses in the Historic Murphysburg District and ice from the many flavors on hand. Owners, Dana and Donald Wilson Hutton District. Attendees will enjoy: Dougherty, are very proud of their stop on Route 66.The location • Private Historic Homes Decorated for the Holidays. was once an old gas station and the replica station has just been • Decorations range from Homespun to Victorian to Modern. remodeled and expanded after 11 years in business, keeping the • More Living History Portrayals will up the nostalgia factor Route 66 style. The Doughertys welcome all visitors traveling the and bring good tidings for all. "Mother Road." • HMP will educate visitors regarding the architecture, origin, home owners and tidbits of history. • Guests will be given a walking tour brochure so that they can return to Murphysburg for future visits. In addition, visitors will be given information regarding all Joplin attractions including, dining, bed & breakfast, shopping, and all the festivities that Joplin has to offer during the holiday season. Cost for Friday evening will be $50 for bourbon tasting, non-bourbon tasting tickets will be available for $25. Tickets for the Holiday home tour will be $20 in advance and $25 at ticket location. For additional information, ticket purchasing, location, and parking details please refer to www.Murphysburg.org or at www.facebook.com/Murphysburg. You may also direct contact Paula Callihan, (417) 483-3116 or Mary Anne Phillips, (417) 437-7327 or email [email protected]. 00 host town of avilla
The Ghost Town of Avilla, Missouri: Civil War, Route 66, the Death Tree, and the Shadow People
BY CHERYL EICHAR JETT TH E TI NY ROUTE 66 TOWN OF AVILLA, MISSOURI, IS SOMETIMES CALLED A LIVING GHOST TOWN. IN ADDITION TO A POPULATION OF ABOUT 125 LIVE SOULS, LOCAL LORE SAYS IT IS ALSO HOME TO THE MYSTERIOUS "SHADOW PEOPLE." TH E LEGENDARY "DEATH TREE" UNLEASHED A NASTY PHANTOM REBEL BUSHWHACKER WHO IS· SAID TO WANDER THE TOWN LOOKING FOR REVENGE. SINCE IT'S THE TIME OF YEAR FOR GHOST STORIES, CHERYL EICHAR JETT DECIDED TO TAKE A LOOK AROUND.
iny Avilla has seen more than its share of action in its raided the doctor's home northeast of (Own. Dr. Sternmons was 160-year history. Confederate guerrilla attacks, a Union shot and killed, along with his neighbor, Nathan Duncan, as the Tgarrison, an armed robbery, a Clyde Barrow visit, the ebb rebels torched the house. The incident incensed the citizens, who and flow of Route 66, and a major fire are all pan of the mix of strengthened their local militia and tracked down some of the legends and facts surrounding the community founded in 1856. guerrillas who had been terrorizing the area. Business boomed here during the Route 66 years, and the highway Local lore says the body of an unidentified rebel irregular was was so full of traffic that long-time residents remember that a later found with a bullet imbedded in the skull. The skull was pedestrian could scarcely get across the street. hung from a "Death Tree" along the road at the Dunlap Apple The Civil War brought the blue, the gray, and bloodshed to this Orchard as a warning to any would-be bushwhackers. But as a quiet farming supply and trade center. The first doctor in the (Own, result, it is said that "Rotten Johnny Reb"- and his stench - was Jaquillian M. Stemrnons, was a slave owner who freed his slaves and unleashed to wander the (Own. He is our for revenge on Yankees, supported the Union cause when the war came. He organized the townspeople, or whoever he comes across, depending upon the pro-Union farmers into a military style Home Guard, but two of version of the story. his six sons chose to fight for the Confederacy. Avilla eventually became a Union Army garrison with hundreds On March 8, 1862, a band of several hundred rebel guerillas, of soldiers, so it was spared the destruction visited on neighboring
reportedly led by the infamous William "Bloody Bill" Anderson, towns such as Carthage. As a result Avilla was ready (0 resume its
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THE BANK OF AVILLA - WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1915 AND SUFFERED AN ARMED ROBBERY IN 1932. IN 1952, IT BECAME AVILLA'SPOST OFFICE.
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pre-war position as a trade center during the Reconstruction Era. off on a roadside between Avilla and Carthage and, unhurt, hiked Another boom occurred during the Route 66 years, as heavy traffic back to Avilla. flowed through town, stopping for gas and food. But Interstate In 1952, the bank building was leased to the U.S. Postal Service 44 left the road in this area known as the "Ghost Stretch" for the and has served Avilla since then.In 2011, it was included on a number of forlorn abandoned businesses. list of possible post office closures across the U.S. The Route 66 Now, Avilla is quiet. My visit is on a warm late summer day community joined the local citizenry to come to its defense, citing with a gray, moody sky.I park the car to wander the village on foot. the little post office as integral to the town's economy and necessary The stillness is broken every little while by a motorcycle, a car door, for international visitors' American experience. It stayed open. or a farm vehicle trundling by. On the sidewalks, a few Route At the post office, the employee answers my questions (she 66 enthusiasts stroll, their attention captured here and there by knows about the Shadow People) and refers me to a couple long- buildings and signs. standing residents who live just across the street. The Lees have lived Tourists might not notice a dark, shadowy corner on one of the on the block across from the post office for 30 years, and are both at old, abandoned buildings. But the occasional paranormal researcher home and hospitable. Their hospitality has included inviting Route or ghost hunter in town is looking for just such a dark niche, where 66 bike travelers to pitch their tents in the yard. The Lees share one of the Shadow People just might be lurking. The Shadow stories about the town and some of its businesses from their vantage People are just that, shadowy visions that appear and quickly point just a block off the highway. They point out the rear elevations disappear. The Shadow People are supposedly harmless, and one has of Old Flo's tavern (now Bernie's Bar and Grill), an adjoining even been nicknamed "Otis" after the stumbling town drunk on the small hotel, an unusual random-stone building, and an abandoned Andy Griffith Show. The stench of a rotting corpse might alert them mercantile store (the creepiest building in town). to the evil presence of "Rotten Johnny Reb" himself I'm not exactly Florida Melugin - of Old Flo's - and her husband had a house a tourist or a ghost hunter, but I keep an eye on the dark corners. where the Lees' garage and sheds now stand. Local legend My first stop is the post office, which started life as the Bank says Flo buried all her money somewhere. of Avilla in 1915. It's a small red brick building, with a diagonal It's never been found, I'm told, if in fact there ever was any. Old Flo's front entrance capped by a pediment. The bank was the target of place, a block away facing Route 66/SR 96, has been Bernie's Bar an armed robbery in 1932 by the Irish O'Malley Gang, a group of and Grill for many years, and now Bernie's son and daughter-in-law Depression-era outlaws, who not only relieved the bank of its funds, Rick and Dawn Walker are taking over the operation. The word on but kidnapped Ivy Russell, the bank's cashier. Russell was dropped the street is that recently someone took photos inside Bernie's which
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revealed a shadowy figure in the in 1971. A church and two mirror over the bar. homes also burned, and The mercantile is a big, neighboring businesses were dark, two-story frame building, damaged. The original business dilapidated and encased with had been established back in ivy. This was Wommack's, 1917 by William Clement then Avery's store.There were Kollenburn. Raymond Ziler living quarters upstairs for purchased it in 1946 and the owners, and the front of operated it until the fire. Ziler's the store served as a bus stop. daughter recalled the paint cans That store front now carries and propane bottles exploding, a warning to keep out. The and the devastation that her structure is both intriguing father felt afterwards; she said and ominous, and I circle it a that "he did not have the heart couple times for more photos. to rebuild." On the next block to the west, a brightly-painted mural In the next block west, also on the south side of the road, stands advertises the town's Route 66 heritage. Here, Clyde Barrow was a tidy yellow two-story house that is said to be the inspiration for said to have stopped for a haircut in the barbershop located in the the Monster House cartoon movie made in 2006. A local man, a front portion of the building. Perhaps he was casing the Bank of Mr. Dale, is credited with the original idea for the story, but the Avilla?Artist Rachel Wilson painted the design, assisted by the screenplay is attributed to Dan Harmon. On a block east of the local Student Council and 4-H Club.As I start to snap photos, Lees' home stands the late-1800s Methodist Church, also well-kept. several members of the Tulsa Classic Chevies car club, out for a day-trip, pull up alongside in their 1955/56 Chevrolets. The shiny cars and the bright building provide a cheerful contrast to the dark surroundings of the previous block. Across the highway to the south stand several large green buildings, once the home of the Avilla Lumber Company. The business was re-built on the site of the Ziler Lumber and Hardware that was destroyed by a wind-swept fire
There is a school, a park, and another small business or two. The short residential streets look like rypical Americana, where daily life flows peacefully for its few residents. Maybe Avilla has earned its quiet retirement. But the little vignettes of pretry village life stand in sharp contrast to the remaining empry, abandoned buildings and the gaps in the streetscape where other structures have been razed in recent years. Within a couple blocks, there were several gas stations, some of which are gone too, the rest crumbling, home only to critters- or shadows. Along the highway, a paranormal researcher or two have brought their equipment and attempted a sighting of the Shadow People. On the internet, you can find a couple accounts of their experiences. Their results sound inconclusive, but the legend persists. I didn't see or smell "Rotten Johnny Reb" during my visit, but maybe you will.
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AFTER GARY AND LENA'S PASSING IN 2015, BARBARA TURNER BARNES, ALONG WITH HER SIBLINGS, THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH GARY'S GAY PARITA. VANDALS WERE STEALING THINGS. GARY'S "FRIENDS FOR LIFE" MISSED STOPPING TO SEE HIM. AND SOME ENTHUSIASTS HAD NEVER MADE THEIR FIRSTVISIT. BARBARA HAD A LIFE, AJOB, AND A HOME IN SOUTH CAROLINA. BUT IN THE END, THERE WAS ONLY ONE ANSWER-MOVE BACK TO MISSOURI TO CONTINUE HER DAD'S ROUTE 66 LEGACY.
nsomeways, Gay Parita seems just the same. The buildings, the memorabilia in the station, the souvenirs in the shop, visitors wandering in and out, smiles and cheerful Ivoices, and greetings as familiar friends arrive. It seems as if Gary and Lena's spirits might just still be there, but mingling with new energy. There are flowers everywhere. New merchandise is on display. And Barbara and George could not be more hospitable, offering big smiles, bottled water, and slices of cold watermelon. It's the Sunday after the Birthplace of Route 66 event in Springfield, and I, like other attendees, have stopped on my way home, despite the spitting rain. Barbara has graciously consented to spend time with me today for an interview, but she has friends and visitors already waiting. I assure her that I'm in no hurry. Wandering around the grounds, I admire the many varieties of plants everywhere-tall cannas, zinnias, clematis, strawberries, rose of Sharon, bright orange marigolds, roses in bloom. Barbara's aunt and uncle, who owned the property for 35 years before her parents moved here, planted the trees. Lena liked lilies and planted some varieties. But Barbara and George have added the flower beds. +++
Fred and Gay Mason opened the original Gay Parita in 1930 and worked side-by-side for 23 years. Then things started to go wrong. Gay died in 1953.Fred continued to operate the
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business, and the following year, married t Lela May Johnson. In 1955, the station burned down, and in 1957, his second wife died. Fred did not rebuild the station, and he died in 1960. A few years later, Barbara's aunt and uncle purchased 80 acres, including this corner. About 2001, Gary and Lena were living in Springfield, and Gary had retired from Associated Grocers due to health problems. The aunt and uncle's family were moving out of the 988-square foot rock house, and asked Gary and Lena if they'd like to buy just two and a half acres and have the corner lot. Barbara received a call from her dad, who said excitedly, "Barb, we're going to open a gas station and have 15-cent gas wars!" Barbara, who like her mother was used to Gary's "adventures," replied, "Well, Dad, you just do that!" Gary's son-in-law, Steve Faucett, Then things went wrong again. When Barbara and George Bowick, who have produced a design for an era-appropriate Barbara came home for a visit in the fall been together 13 years, had a home and station.Gary and his son,Steve Turner, of 20 14, she saw how her parents' health jobs in South Carolina. She said to him, built the station in 2006. People Rocked to had worsened. In a long talk with Gary, "I have to go." And he said, "Okay, let's this tiny corner of Missouri from all around she realized that he knew he wouldn't make go." It took them three months to get their the world, becoming "friends for life" with it. Gary died in January 2015.And Lena, house ready to sell, pack, and make all the the friendly, talkative man with the service his wife of 47 years, died in May.The four arrangements. Meanwhile, she was still station cap. children had to decide what was to be done working full-time, and her siblings were Behind the scenes, Lena Turner did with the property. alerting her to vandalism and theft at the her part as a quiet, supportive hostess. She "I knew this was where I needed to be," station. She recalls what a stressful time it knew Gary would stay up late, sometimes Barbara said. "How could you honestly was before she and George could get here. staying down at the station until midnight. not want to take over something that your Every morning, even after she became ill, parents did?That's their legacy ro you. +++ she would let Gary sleep in, quietly make How could you take sorneone's dream and Barbara left home when she was her way down to the station, and put on just throw it away? Because he didn't want 17.She wanted to get married, and her the coffee. to die; he wanted to be here." parents signed for her. Soon, her husband, in military service, got orders to go to Germany. The young woman was hesitant about leaving her home for a foreign country, but she made plans to go. Gary took her to the airport and told her, "I never got to do anything like that, so I guess I get to see it through your eyes." The young couple were stationed in Germany from 1988-1991. In their village, they were the only Americans, and Barbara was soon asked by a German family to become their nanny. The girls became like little sisters to her, she learned German, and she remained with the family for two and a half years. Meanwhile, Gary knew how many friends his daughter had made. One day on the phone he said, "You've made a friend for life, Barb." After returning to the U.S., Barbara began to work in retail and then became a theater manager, a job she conscientiously
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prided herself on and held for 23 years. "Everything had to be cleaned up and '1love theflowers. I want mom and dad to look down, turned around for the next show, and we had eight screens. For 23 years that was and I want it to be beautiful. I told George, this isn'tyour the way I worked; everything had to be perfect. So that's why my life is like that. station, it isn't my station, it'salways going to be my mom For me everything has to be vacuumed and picked apart. And it drives George crazy," and dad's station, and I want it to look beautifol. )) she explains. Once, on a visit home, Barbara had - Barbara Turner Barnes entered Gary's station and looked around at all the memorabilia. Recalling how strict her dad was when she was little be forthcoming in the future. Well into ("He would throw our things away if we their second season at Gay Parita, it feels didn't keep them picked up!"), she chided good to them that they are starting to learn him, "This is just not right! I want to throw everyone that knew her dad. Barbara says it all away!" of George, "He's so good. Every day at 8 Barbara and George arrived at Gay 0'clock he's down here and opens the gate. Parita with their U'-Haul in April 2016. He's met more people than I have. It's Tourist season had begun and they "just amazing to me that someone would help had to open the gates and go with it." After me like that." sorting and packing her parents' things, "We're not going anywhere," Barbara Barbara painted the walls and unpacked states. "You know, I'll do this until I die. their own belongings in the little rock So I'll die here just like my dad, and then house. She asked George to greet people we'll figure out where it goes from there. and call her if a group arrived. It's really for the people. I want them to Next, it took her 40 hours to sort and see what my dad started. This was original tidy her dad's office, part of the healing Route 66; the house and garage are original process that she needed to go through from the 1920s. He might have added by herself Then the shirt shop needed the station, but he gave Route 66 back reorganized.She views it all as a work in something that had failed. It had burned progress. When they closed the gates last down, but he built it back and he became winter, people asked, "Will you be open that person. It's always going to be his at Christmas time?" And so,Christmas station. It's always going to be Gary's Gay decorations and holiday open hours may Parita. We're just the caretakers right now."
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BY JIM THOLE Chairman, Neon Heritage Preservation Committee Route 66Association of Missouri
PATRICK RHEA, OWNER OF THE CHICKEN BASKET RESTAURANT IN WILLOWBROOK, ILLINOIS DECIDED TO THROW A BIG PARTY TO WELCOME BACK HIS ROUTE 661CONIC NEON SIGN, AFTER IT HAD DEPARTED FOR TWO MONTHS TO ST. LOUIS FOR RESTORATION TO ITS ORIGINAL GLORY.
he relighting event at the Chicken Basket was an all- Ides of March ("Vehicle") and later of the group Survivor. ("Eye of • afternoon affair on July 3,2017, culminating with the the Tiger") Peterick is Chicago's very own, popular rock star. Tsign being turned on, and a very short ceremony about Throughout the afternoon, a big crowd enjoyed the refreshments 4:00 pm. The ceremony began with a roaring rendition of the and the large car show and the music provided by Jim Peterick national anthem by famed anthem singer Jim Cornelison, who and other performers. It was a very festive event. Commemorative does it regularly for the Chicago Blackhawks NHL team. That was r-shirts were also available. followed by certain acknowledgements by "Root Beer Larry," who The sign restoration was managed and coordinated by our own was the promoter and coordinator for the event. The ceremony Neon Heritage Preservation Committee (NHPC) of the Route 66 then concluded with a few 1950-60s songs by Jim Peterick of the Association of Missouri, also known as "Team Neon" ever since its
THE CHICKEN BASKET HAS CHANGED LITTLE SINCE THIS 1950S PHOTO. (PHOTO, CHICKEN BASKET)
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2013 award by a St. Louis newspaper first created that moniker. In the late 1950s, new 4-lane Route 66 (later to become I-55) This Association committee of four members aim Thole, Bob bypassed the Chicken Basket and the beloved Route 66 icon fell Gehl, Esley Hamilton and David Hutson, who is the actual neon on hard times because even those who remembered the restaurant craftsman that restored the sign) have now been together for ten couldn't figure out how to get to it. About 1960, the properry was years, and during that time have assisted with the restoration of ten sold to another owner/operator who re-named it the "Crafrwood iconic Route 66 neon signs in both Illinois and Missouri. Inn." However, it failed to win back the former Chicken Basket A key component in this successful run of neon restorations customers and closed in less than three years. has been the good fortune to be awarded a National Park Service In 1963, Dell Rhea and his wife, Grace, bought the restaurant cost matching grant through its Route 66 Corridor Preservation at a bargain price. Dell, being very well known in the area, used program. And such was again the case for the Chicken Basket sign. his restaurateur and hotelier reputation to help bring people back Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket had its humble beginnings sometime to the newly re-named "Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket." They ran the around 1930 in an old gas station lunch counter owned by Irv Kolarik in Hinsdale, IL. One day, two local farm women came in and overheard him talking about getting more into the food business and out of the service station business. Having a wonderful recipe for fried chicken, they approached him and offered to teach him how to cook fried chicken if he would buy his chickens from them. A deal was done, and a new business begun. Because the fried chicken was so delicious and Highway 66 so busy, the fledgling business quickly outgrew its lunch counter, and the two car repair bays were turned into a dining room. Some years after that, with the restaurant still growing, the adjacent land was purchased, a brand new restaurant was built, and the business re-named "Nationally Famous Chicken Basket." The Chicken Basket, as it is today then, opened in the summer restaurant with the help of their son Patrick until 1986, when he of 1946 on Route 66 in Hinsdale right next door to its original gas took over management of the restaurant, which he has continued to station location. It became the perfect stopping place for people this day. going to and from Chicago and served as a Blue Bird Bus Line Having just completed its 70th anniversary year, the Chicken stop. People came to the Chicken Basket to purchase bus tickets to Basket building has not changed since it was built in 1946 . travel as far away as Los Angeles, or to send packages to loved ones and meanwhile, the vintage neon sign in front of it has also stood anywhere between there and Chicago. the test of time, still standing there after 70 years as a stalwart One of the restaurant's draws was its many large windows, which sentinel. In fact, there are no other vintage 66 neon signs still allowed patrons to view the small private planes taking off and operational in DuPage Counry of Illinois. landing at the former Hinsdale airport across the street. However, The Rhea family has now owned and operated the Chicken Irv created many other marketing schemes as well, the most bizarre Basket restaurant for over 50 years. With a lot of hard work, good of which occurred in the winter, when he would flood his roof with food, fair prices, friendly faces and the growing populariry of water and turn it into an ice skating rink for some professional Historic Route 66 around the world, the Chicken Basket has now skaters. People would come from miles around to view this rooftop become more popular than ever. spectacle, and then stay around to eat at the restaurant, just as Irv Almost all of the Hinsdale/Willowbrook businesses that sprouted had anticipated. up along Route 66 during the 50s & 60s are now gone, except for The restaurant's need for chicken soon outgrew the capabiliry the Chicken Basket - leaving it (and its neon sign) as one of the few of the two local women, and thus another local farmer in the area still representative of the Mother Road era in DuPage Counry, and took over as Irv's supplier. That farmer was none other than Stanley therefore a very relevant part of the Route 66 experience today. Helma, grandfather of today's owner, Patrick Rhea.
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BUSTER BROWN PLANT AT SULLIVAN, MO (PHOTO COURTESY OF First in Shoes: SHOW ME 66 COLLECTION)
ON AUGUST 3, 2017, THE WRECKING BALL FELL ON THE OLD BROWN SHOE COMPANY PLANT AT JEFFERSON AVE. AND MULLANPHY ST. IN ST. LOUIS. IT WAS ONE OF THE BUILDINGS IN A MULTI-BLOCK AREA IN NORTH ST. LOUIS FALLING UNDER THE WRECKING BALL TO MAKE WAY FOR THE NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. FOR SOME, THIS IS PROGRESS, AND INDEED IT WILL BRING JOBS AND HOPEFULLY A BOOST TO THE REGIONAL ECONOMY THAT IS SORELY NEEDED. BY KIP WELBORN
ut once upon a time the shoe company that occupied that Co., set up shop at 210-212 Washington Avenue in the late 1860s and building brought the jobs and boosted the economy of the employed about 300 persons. About 10 years later, Adamson Brown BCity of St. Louis. International Shoe Company was one of moved to St. Louis to create the Hamilton Brown shoe company with the firms that helped make St. Louis the "First In Shoes" city in James Hamilton. While Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. would eventually the 1960s. After establishing itself in St. Louis, the Brown Shoe become a shoe manufacturer, it began as a wholesaler. Their shoe Company expanded to bring jobs to several rural communities in selling business lured Adamson's older brother, and founder of the Missouri and Illinois and bought usage rights to a cartoon character Brown Shoe Company, George Warren Brown, to St. Louis from that became one of the most enduring labels in retail history. New York. Times have changed for Brown, like they did for International Shoe Company. Brown now known as Caleres, is still based in the Clayton location it has occupied since 1952. The shoe manufacturing jobs have moved out of the region, replaced by product from foreign nations and internet companies. While there are images of Buster and Tige on any store shelves, there are vestiges of the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis and in towns in several states. There are still folks like Kent Sanderson, who are proud to remind people that once upon a time, like the Elgin wristwatch, the Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner, and the Kodak Instarnatic, the Brown Shoe Company was one of the biggest shoe companies but in the world. In the early 1800s, the shoe industry in St. Louis nestled in homes and small shops occupied by skilled craftsmen. The first shoe factory in St. Louis, Giesecke, Meysburg and
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According to a KETC documentary on the Brown Shoe Company, kids would swear an allegiance to Buster Brown, and would receive a free gift (a whistle or clicker). Through the name and through promotion, the Brown Shoe Company had created a phenomenon Before that time, children's shoes were just shoes. Now they were called "Buster Browns." Until 1907, Brown Shoe's manufacturing facilities were exclusively in St. Louis. There were five factories in the area, including the complex along Washington Avenue, the Jefferson and Mullanphy factory and a factory at 13th and Russell (later the International Hat Company factory). On January 1, 1907, its headquarters was moved into a majestic new building at the corner of 17th St. and Washington Blvd. that became known as the White House. It was surrounded by George Warren Brown started out as a sales clerk with Hamilton several Brown Shoe manufacturing plants. The White House still Brown Shoe Company, but more quickly than his older brother he stands and is currently under renovation. saw the potential for shoe manufacturing in St. Louis. At the time, It was also in 1907 that Brown Shoe Company began opening shoe manufacturing was largely centered on the East Coast. Brown, up factories outside the St. Louis area, with the first built in after four years working for his brother, brought in Alvin Bryan and Jerome Desnoyers as investors.He adopted a strategy utilized by the founders of the watch companies in Illinois, paying five skilled shoemakers from Rochester, New York to come to the Midwest to help build the Bryan Brown Shoe Company in 1878. Brown saw shoes for the average consumer were poorly made and fitted. Well-made and well-fitted shoes were only available at a high cost. Brown sought to make fine shoes affordable. According to the Calares website, to evidence the durability of the Brown shoe, a symbol was branded onto the bottom. If the shoes wore out before the symbol on the bottom of the shoe wore out, the customer got $5.00 back! That is why the "5" is on their logo to this day. This ingenuity helped the Bryan Brown Shoe Company to grow rapidly. By 1900, the firm was reporting an annual growth rate of one million dollars. The entire industry was booming. In 1899, there were 31 shoe factories in St. Louis manufacturing $53.500,000 worth of shoes. When two companies merged to form the International Shoe Company in 1911, St. Louis clinched its status as "First In Shoes" ... "First In Booze" ... and "Last In the Moberly Missouri.The firm was named Brown Shoe Incorporated American League". after re-organizing in 1913. According to Kent Sanderson of Brown Ryan Brown Shoe Co. was a major presence at the Louisiana Shoe, the firm grew to operate plants in the following towns: Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, contributing $10,000 and IL Litchfield, Mattoon, Murphysboro, Sullivan, Salem, hosting an impressive exhibit featuring a model shoe plant. It was at Trenton, Charleston, Pittsfield the Fair that a Brown employee connected with Fenton Outcault. IN Vincennes Outcalt had developed two of the first cartoon characters, Buster MO Moberly, Mountain Grove, Brookfield, Dixon, Potosi, Brown and Tige the Dog, for the New York Herald. According to Bernie, Cabool,Caruthersville, Charleston,Fredericktown, Runberg Smith, Brown Shoe Co. Archivist, Brown Shoe bought the Houston, Owensville, Potosi,Sikeston, Versailles rights to use the characters' images for $200.00 and they became AR Pocahontas, Newport, Leachville, Piggott the symbol for Buster Brown's children's shoes. MS Booneville To push the children's line, Brown Shoe Co. hired 20 "Buster TN Selmer (2),Dyer,Savannah, Union City, McKenzie, Brown's" and "Tiges" to visit shoe stores, country fairs, and Trenton, Humboldt, Lexington theaters throughout the country, promoting Buster Brown Shoes. KY Clinton
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Kent Sanderson, a longtime with our hand-held CB Radios, pointing member of the Route 66 Association out stuff and pontificating about life in of Missouri, began working for Brown general. On one cruise to the Arkansas Shoe in May of 1963. He began office border, we passed through Charleston, management training in the Pittsfield, and Kent took us past the Brown Shoe Illinois plant and was later transferred Factory there. On another cruise we took to the Brookfield, Missouri plant in the to Giant City near Carbondale, Kent position of Office Manager. This entailed took us past the Brown Shoe factory in supervising about a dozen employees, Murphysboro, Illinois, where he once most of whom were women. The office worked. He wanted to show us a big part produced a weekly payroll for about of his life, and he made it well worth 300 workers, accounted for daily and hearing about. weekly earnings, ordered and maintained Brown Shoe Company went through needed supplies for the manufacturing its ups and downs in the years leading process, maintained all personnel up to the 1960s. It had great years, records, and shipped thousands of dollars' worth of finished particularly between World Wars I and II. In 1917, Brown Shoe shoes daily. He was later transferred to a newly-opened plant in Company produced 910,000 shoes for the war effort. In 1931, Clinton, Kentucky as its first office manager and hired and trained the Moberly plant produced 92,038 pairs of shoes for the military. each of his employees. He was then transferred to the plant in Brown was also at the forefront as far in women's shoes. However, Murphysboro, Illinois where he worked until he was transferred to immediately after World War I the company suffered a setback as a the Clayton headquarters in 1971 and worked in the Cost Control result of women's shoe wear. After the war, there was a trend toward Department. He was later manager of the Shoe and Handbag more fashionable women's footwear as a result of rising hemlines. Costing Department and then finished his career as Senior Cost Browns women's stock was dominated by "sturdy high topped and Analysis Control Auditor which entailed traveling to each women's shoes." So the firm was stuck with a surplus of outdated manufacturing plant to audit procedural and numerical accuracy. footwear. However, the Connie line of shoes helped resuscitate Brown's image among women. Shoe production continued to be strong at Brown Shoe into the 1960s but production at St. Louis began to decline. By 1949, the firm had 33 factories in six states, but only three in St. Louis. Modernization led to employment cuts and foreign imports led to diversification, which led to everything from purchasing retail outlets to the purchase of Central Hardware in 1966. While Brown's headquarters remained in the St. Louis area, moving from the White House to Clayton in 1952, its last actual warehouse in the St. Louis area closed in 1980. The last St. Louis shoe factory, at Jefferson and Mullanphy closed in the early 1990s. While George Warren Brown dons the School of Social Work at Washington University, the Brown Shoe Company, once one of the biggest industries in St. Louis, has largely been eradicated from its psyche. In 2015, the company was renamed "Caleres." When the plant at Jefferson and Mullanphy was torn down, Jeffrey Shors, stated in the Post that tearing the plant down was not necessary and called it another piece of St. Louis history lost. He said, "Buster Paul and Debbie Rhew also worked for Brown Shoe. Debbie Brown, his dog Tige and all friends of historic architecture cannot be began her career in her hometown of Piggott, Arkansas as a stitcher pleased." in the fitting department. Paul took office manager training in Brown Shoe's (Caleres) has diversified into other ventures, one the Pocahontas, Arkansas plant and was then transferred to the very big shoe remains in front of the headquarters on Maryland Piggott plant - where he met and married Debbie. They were then Avenue in Clayton. It's actually made up of hundreds of smaller transferred to the Dyer, Tennessee where Paul worked as office shoes. Any such structure is subject to an interpretation, but what plant manager and Debbie returned to the fitting department. Paul I think, is that the shoe represents all of the people who came was then transferred to the Dixon, Missouri at the Buster Brown together to make the quality shoe affordable. That company brought plant and Debbie became a supervisor in the fitting department. and boosted the economy of St. Louis, helping to make the city Both worked in the Dixon plant until its closing. Though "First in Shoes." The firm employed workers in several states, separated, they still live in Dixon. workers like Kent Sanderson and Paul and Debbie Rhew, who were Kent and his wife Mary Sue took us near and far to points proud to make a quality product. Or, the customer could ask for North, South, East and West from St. Louis on a series of what we their $5.00 back. called Sweetheart Cruises.The group of us headed down the road
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BY GARY SOSNIECKI (This article originally appeared in September 2002 in The Lebanon Daily Record. Used by permission.)
FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, EDEN RESORT, ON A HILLJUST WEST OF THE GASCONADE RIVER ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF ROUTE 66, WAS A SELF-PROCLAIMED PARADISE FOR THOUSANDS OF TRAVELERS, VACATIONERS AND FISHERMEN.
wast the Eden of Route 66. For more than 40 years, Eden elegant gentleman, very English." Dewey's parents, Walter and Helen Resort, on a hill just west of the Gasconade River on the south Dickinson, later would become the resort's second and last owners. Iside of Route 66, was a self-proclaimed paradise for thousands Riggs, according to an early brochure, was "a lover of the of travelers, vacationers and fishermen. "It was a showplace," Hugh beautiful Ozark hill country, where he has spent every leisure McClure Jr. of nearby Hazelgreen recalled. moment away from business (winter and summer, hunting, fishing "I think it would have been called the nicest and most beautiful and just loafing)." place on 66," he said, adding that the resort "was booked up and sold Riggs "decided to purchase the most beautiful and convenient out from year to year. They had a big pine dining lodge, and it sure spot he could find in this wonderful playground, and build thereon was a treat to eat in that place." a resting place, or resort, such as he had dreamed of, but never Eden Resort was built in the 1920s by Stanley M. Riggs, a St. found. However, he kept in mind that city dwellers are accustomed Louis businessman who is remembered by Betty Dewey as "an to comforts, not usually found in the average resort and after a long
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the resort, there was no running water or pump of any kind (in the cottages)," Betty Dewey recalls. Each unit had a porcelain commode, a water pitcher and a wash basin, she remembers."There was nothing modern about it," Dan Dickinson says. But there was running water to two shower houses on opposite sides of the hill- one for men, the other for women. Each had toilets and shower stalls, with water fed from a tank on each roof. Dan says, the tanks were painted black to absorb heat from the sun. At times, the sun-heated water became too hot to use. Dan described how his mom and dad met. "There was an accident on the bridge that was really bad. A large dump truck went thru the railing and punched into the river, the driver was killed. The bridge was closed for a time and since my Mom lived east on 66 at Gascozark she and friends came down to search, a superbly beautiful tract of land was secured and on this has the bridge to see all the commotion since people were coming back arisen 'Eden,' a paradise in the Ozarks." on 66 to the service station saying the road was closed. That was the According to the brochure, Eden consisted "of a large main first time she saw my Dad, at the accident. building (one story), with a spacious outdoor, screened, dining By 1949-50, work began on installing a central water system, room extending the full length of the house and overlooking, including toilets, to each cottage. Dan recalls Eden Resort having through the trees, the highway with its constant stream of autos - 20 units, not including two buildings over the hill that had five a cool, delightful place to enjoy your meals. housekeeping units in each." Some would be two-unit structures. • "One to five-room cottages are each furnished for extreme You could open the door and make it one unit if you had a group comfort with Simmons beds, lots of comfortable chairs, porch big enough to need both." One unit had four rooms. swings, ete. The large screened porch of every cottage is another Meals were eaten in the lodge building, which Betty remembers source of comfort at 'Eden.' The entire place is in the shade of including an office with a fireplace, a large dining room with magnificent forest trees and has running water, toilets, shower about 20 tables, a linen room and a kitchen. "In the dining room, baths, electric lights and no mosquitos." there also was an area where there were square dances and things," Rates in the 1930s were $3 per day for adults or $18 a week. Betty says. "It was a large building." In 1946, Betty was married "Why go to far away, expensive places when Eden is right at to Edward Dewey of Minneapolis in the lodge building at Eden your door? Whether you come for a week-end, for two weeks or a complete summer you'll find it the ideal spot. Plenty of action and plenty of rest. No matter what your hobby may be you'll find it here. Why not plan to bring the whole family to Eden this year?" Most of Riggs' guests came from the St. Louis area. But the first person to sign the guest register (after Riggs himself) in 1929, possibly the resort's first year, was from Cleveland. Another guest in May 1929 was from Anderson, Ind. The first guests of the 1932 season were a delegation of nine men that included Missouri Supreme Court justices WT. Ragland and Bob Ellison; R.R. Nacy, a candidate for state treasurer; and Charlie M. Hay, a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The register for August 1934 is filled with names from Lebanon, some still familiar today, including Joe Knight, I.T. Curry, Jean Paul Bradshaw and Paul Page. Riggs hired managers to operate Eden Resort for him. Among them were the Dickinsons, who came to Eden from Monett. "We went to Eden in 1942," their son, Dan, recalls. 'Td say 1946 is when they actually bought the thing." Dan, now of Overland Park, Kan., and sister Betty, now of Independence, have many memories of Eden. "When we first had
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Resort. "Dr. G.D.) Prater was the minister who came out from to Ozark Fishing Streams- Lebanon," she recalls. "We were married in front of the fireplace." Vacation Resorts"), The customer base of Eden Resort evolved over its four decades. including an invitation An early brochure describes it as ''A Modern 'All-Cottage' Summer to the Laclede County Resort Hotel." Men were encouraged to let "the wife and kiddies Centennial Celebration on spend the summer in one of our cottages. It will do them all a Aug. 17-13, 1949. Another world of good. You can spend the weekends with them - good for page is filled with ads for you, too." It wasn't uncommon for visitors to arrive by train and be Lebanon-area businesses, picked up in Richland or Lebanon. including, on Route 66, During World War II, Betty Dewey remembers, "a lot of people, Eden Resort, the Nelson families came to (Eden Resort) to meet their sons at Fort Leonard Hotel, Vesta Court and Wood before they shipped out." Dan Dickinson notes that after 4 Acre Court. the war, people became more affluent, gasoline and tires were more The most-prestigious plentiful, and the drive on Route 66 was faster, only three to four event ever held at Eden hours from St. Louis to Eden. "Consequently you saw that a lot Resort may have been in of (Eden visitors) were fishing people just staying for a weekend," September 1952, when rather than for a week or longer. it was host to the Missouri In the late 1940s, at the encouragemen t of the Missouri Outdoor Writers' Association Department of Natural Resources, Eden Resort was one of several three-day meeting. The area businesses to form the Central Ozarks Association."Natural keynote speaker was Nash Resources was interested in encouraging the tourist industry, people Buckingham, a sportsman, coming into Missouri," Dan says. writer, conservationist and He recalls, as part of those efforts, personally taking Jim Mitchell, waterfowl expert from editor of Field & Stream magazine, and Nick Kohler, a pioneer Nashville, Tenn. Toastmaster promoter of boat shows, bird hunting to show off the area. He also for the banquet was Charles remembers manning a booth for the Central Ozarks Association at E. Gillham, director of the 1946 St. Louis boat and outdoors show. "We took one of our public relations for Olin Industries, an explorer, big-game hunter, jon boats in and a guide." biologist and author of "The Raw North."L. Winton Lemen of the A 16-page promotional magazine produced by the Central Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., presented a two-day forum Ozarks Association includes a full-page ad for Lebanon ("Gateway and workshop on photojournalism in the Ozarks.
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Today, nature has reclaimed A group from Lebanon, headed by the land, "tohere high hills bus stop, where Greyhound dropped off and Chamber of Commerce President R.]. picked up visitors to the resorr. Two other Weidemier, treated the outdoor writers to a reach toward the landmarks also fell victim to the bulldozers. barbecue and square dance at the Lebanon One was a rock monument on Eden Country Club.Civic leaders from Richland blue of the sky, where a properry along Route 66 with a bronze plaque organized an Ozarks-sryle fox hunt for the that read: "To commemorate the March of writers. crystal clear stream Union Soldiers - Sr. Louis to Springfield A colorful Eden brochure from this era overland via Wire Road 1861-1865 Civil War. notes that the resort "is located one mile west flows silently through Erected 1931 by American Circle #62, Ladies of Hazelgreen, Mo., 152 miles west of of the G.A.R.,Sr. Louis, Mo." The plaque Sr. Louis,Mo., on Scenic Highway U.S. #66. cool green valleys. » disappeared on March 23, 1956. Mountain Scenery and paved highway all the The other landmark was a roadside park way, and on the western banks of the beautiful Gasconade River." located across Route 66 from Eden Resorr. Dan Dickinson explains The brochure stresses that Eden is an "All Cottage Resort (not that 1.6 acres of the original 37.7-acre tract were cut offby the Wire cabins)" with private baths and "all the comforts of a ciry apartment Road. After Route 66 was built on the Wire Road, Riggs donated the deep in the Central Ozark Mountains." The food is "home cooking 1.6 acres for a park, with a stipulation that the land would be deeded at its very best." With construction of Interstate 44 starring in early back if it ever ceased to be used as a park. 1956, Eden Resort soon "got cut off the main road completely. You The park was situated in a ravine, and steps were built down to it went to a service road," Dan recalls. from the road. Besides a rock grill for cooking and a table, the park "Access to the main highway is quite vital to that rype of included an obelisk marker with a plaque reading that the land for business." With access to 1-44 three miles away in both directions, the park had been given "by these public spirited citizens." Nine no longer did Eden Resort get "drop-in business" off Route 66. names were listed, including four couples. One couple was S.M. The remaining business was from people who already knew their Riggs and Marguerite Riggs. destination. A photograph in Berry Dewey's collection shows construction "Most of it was old-timers who knew you. You had your old equipment filling in the roadside park's ravine for the lanes of guys who came back. It wound up being a fishing camp." The Interstate 44.The obelisk marker was knocked down, the plaque's coming ofI-44 did more than cut off Eden Resort from traffic. fate unknown. To make room for the new traffic lanes, bulldozers demolished Walter and Helen Dickinson continued to operate Eden Resort, the resort's picturesque bricked entrance, including the covered even with the loss of highway traffic.When Walter Dickinson died
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in March 1971 at age 70, his obituary in The Lebanon Daily Record included that "Gasconade River float trips were featured at the resort and Mr. Dickinson had arranged floats for an untold number of Missouri sportsmen and others from out of state." Helen Dickinson ran the resort by herself for another year or two. "Then we sold it to a Christian organization that had visions of developing a youth camp," Dan recalls. "That fell through. . "". 66\ It didn't develop properly." The church group stopped making ·bout life's experience on Route 12 songS a payments on the property, and Helen Dickinson got it back. "In the process of them trying to operate the thing, and then getting ready to vacate the thing, it was pretty well stripped. There wasn't much left," Dan recalls with sadness. "There was no way you could have operated the thing the way it had been in the condition it was." Purchase a CD The property deteriorated even more rapidly as it sat vacant. and qualily to be in Dan says windows, doors, even copper wiring were stolen before the next seven the land was sold to somebody for private use. Most of Eden drawings to win Resort's remaining buildings were bulldozed. Helen Dickinson one 01only 10 Route 66 signature died in September 1975. Betty Dewey says the cross atop the guitars autographed ~ss~ Hazelgreen Methodist Church is in memory of her parents. with a "certificate . fOll1 up album Today, the buildings and monuments gone, nothing remains of authenticity:' to identify the location of Eden Resort. Nature has reclaimed the by the legendary, "Making Music for the Road" land that Stanley Riggs found for his "Paradise in the Ozark Hills." Loretta Lynn. along with Americas US 66 Band! But it's still a place "where high hills reach toward the blue of the sky, where a crystal clear stream flows silently through cool green Available in select Route 66 stores or at motherroadmusic.com valleys."
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missouri66.ore 29 JUST OVER 60 YEARS AGO - THURSDAY, AUG. 8, 1957 - WAS THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE ROUTE 66 WE KNOW AND LOVE IN LEBANON TODAY. THAT'S THE DAY THE FAMED U.S. HIGHWAY' WAS RELOCATED FROM ELM STREET TO FARMLAND THEN SOUTH OF TOWN, WHERE A NEW, FOUR-LANE, CONTROLLED-ACCESS "INTERSTATE" HIGHWAY HAD BEEN BUILT.
ariously called New U.S. Highway 66, Bypass 66, committee were Mayor ].c. Benage, Elbert Moncgomery, Joe Knight Interstate 2 and the name that stuck, Interstate 44, the and E.G. Spears. V"Lebanon relocation project," as The Lebanon Daily Record On Oct. 16, at a joint meeting of the chamber, Lions and called it, would move traffic farther from downtown, just as Kiwanis, Benage announced tentative plans to erect four 14-by-40 Route 14, later renamed Route 66, had done in 1926. signs and six 12-by-24 signs to promote Lebanon along what would The new interstate highway eventually would mean more become the new Interstate 44. In February 1957, the chamber economic growth for Lebanon, but business owners who had announced a five-year contract with Lebanon eon Sign Co. for the benefited from froncing Route 66 for up to 31 years faced 10 signs. uncertainty as the ribbons of concrete were poured to their south. "To Open 66 Bypass Thursday" headlined a Page 1 story in The But Lebanon had plenry of time to prepare. Daily Record on Aug. 7, 1957: The "Lebanon relocation project" was contracted on Nov. 7, 1955, "The new highway to be opened to traffic begins about 2.6 miles nearly eight months before Congress passed the Federal Aid southwest of Lebanon, near the west interchange into Lebanon. It Highway Act, creating today's interstate system. Though it originally extends northeasterly about 8.2 miles. The west 4.6 miles represencs was to be a four-lane version of Route 66, bypassing congested the Lebanon relocation project. The remainder is part of another Elm Street, the 4.6-mile Lebanon relocation actually became part 13.3 miles long project on which Koss Construction Company now of the new interstate system. In fact, the news release from the is paving. State Highway Commission announcing its completion said three "Opening of the by-pass route will provide a modern divided, miles of new highway that opened on the same day directly east controlled access traffic faciliry through this area. These two features, of the Lebanon relocation were "part of a 13.3 miles long project dividing of traffic and control of access, today are considered the which was the first Interstate System project to be conrracted in the outstanding engineering features contributing to highway safery." nation ... " The date the historic contract was let was Aug. 2, 1956. Bushman Construction Co. of Kansas City built the Lebanon On Aug. 1, 1956, the Chamber of Commerce appointed a bypass for about $2,199,000. "The project included grading, highway-promotion committee with Pete Hudson, co-owner of bridging and the laying of two 24-foot wide divided portland the Munger Moss Motel, as chairman. Later named to an executive cement concrete pavemencs with controlled access. The project also
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includes three interchanges, one each at u.s. Route 66 both east Carl (Pete) Hudson. When the project is finished, there will be 10 and west of Lebanon and one at Routes 5-32 at the south edge of signs in all with four of these electrically lighted for night use. Lebanon." '''First results from the signs already in place are very good,' said A photograph of "Traffic on Lebanon Bypass" was at the top of Lebanon mayor Jewel C. Benage, who is a member of the Chamber Page 1 the next day, but it showed only one lonely car - described of Commerce highway committee. Mayor Benage this morning as "the first east-bound automobile," emerging from beneath the agreed that it is too early as yet to get a good idea as to the effect Highway 5-32 bridge. of the new highway setup, but he noted the increase in traffic on "That day got my husband so mad he just wanted to get our Jefferson ave. due to tourists turning off the new super highway and of town and go to Joplin," Jessie Hudson, then-co-owner of the driving into Lebanon's business district. Gene Clay of the KLWT bypassed Munger Moss Motel, told Susan Croce Kelly in the 1988 staff also has observed the marked increase in traffic on Jefferson ave. book, "Route 66." (MO 5)." I "We didn't know if we would go out of business or what. Thank Today, about a dozen restaurants line Jefferson berween 1-44 and God, they opened up the road, and we were rented out by nine that Elm Street, old Route 66. Sixty years ago, 1-44 traffic had to drive night." farther into town to find Lebanon eateries. Sixty years later, the Munger Moss is an internationally known "Seven carloads of tourists (by actual count traveling on new Route 66 landmark, its billboards directing traffic to turn off I-44 66) ate their noon meal at a Commercial street restaurant yesterday. at Exit 130 to its location on The Mother Road. When asked by a reporter how they happened to stop in Lebanon, The immediate impact on Lebanon's traffic Bow was reported three of the tourists said they saw a Lebanon sign several miles east in the Aug. 14 The Daily Record below a photo of one of the new of the city, decided to stop and have their automobiles serviced. billboards promoting Lebanon. The billboard, targeting westbound One tourist told The Daily Record reporter that he drove rwo or traffic, had a dark arrow at the top, pointing right, with reverse type three miles past Lebanon and then decided to come back for fear he reading "15,000 FRIENDLY FOLKS." would not reach another city in a short time. "LEBANON" was in dominant letters in the middle of the sign. "Max Turk, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Below, the sign read: "MOTELS'RESTAURANTS'HOTELS." said he has already talked with touristls) in Lebanon who said they chose the stop because of the Chamber of Commerce signs. Mayor The article read: Benage pointed out that the sites for the signs extend from a point • "While it is too early as yet to get a good idea as to full business east of Springfield to one east of Rolla. effects from the routing of traffic over new U.S. Highway 66 in "R.E. Thomas, veteran local highway department employee, Lebanon and the area, it is already obvious to a number of observers points out that Lebanon will get the benefit of additional state- that the Lebanon signs along new 66 such as this one, are paying off erected signs as the highway project progresses. Frank Lyons, handsomely. highway department engineer, noted in a speech before Kiwanis "The Lebanon signs are being put up by the local Chamber of Club members Tuesday noon that Lebanon fortunately has three Commerce, under supervision of the highway committee headed by turnoffs. Liberty Lodge originally opened as a Ramada in 1959,and today is one of the last of St. Robert's original Route 66 motels. Our guests will be provided with all the comforts of home combined with superior guest service. We are conveniently located just off Interstate 44 at exit 161, and within 5 minutes of the front gates of Fort Leonard Wood.
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"Asexpected, the reduction in traffic on old 66 to a comparative "It could be that Lebanon will write its own ticket on the overall trickle has resulted in lost business to some firms along this effect of the (good or bad) of new 66. And, in at least one case, route. This, it seems, is especially true in the case of some service we're off on the right foot with the highway signs and the Chamber stations where a reduction of sales is reported, and at some eating of Commerce is to be congratulated for this program. We hope the ·establishments. The motel business, in most cases, is holding .... Chamber of Commerce receives cooperation in future programs and they still need the no vacancy sign. designed to get tourists to turn off Interstate No.2 in Lebanon." "The owner of a garage on old 66 told The Daily Record this The next section of New Route 66 opened just days later, morning that his service department has been literally flooded, that Aug. 13, at 2 p.m. "The section to be opened extends from the he is enjoying a regular increase in this type of business. He said the Gasconade River bridge, west of Hazelgreen, west 8.1 miles to the increase in the service department business started on the day traffic east end of a new pavement opened to traffic only last Thursday," was first routed over new 66, at the time when some members of The Daily Record reported. "It is part of the 13.3 miles' long project the staff figured that (they would be) having something like an which was contracted in August of last year to Koss Construction 'on-the-job vacation.' Company, Des Moines, Ia., in the first contract to be made in JmJ end of the road
"The 6.2 miles long section to be opened Wednesday morning extends from a point about 7.2 miles west of Lebanon west to connect with the existing dual pavement east of Conway. It is part of a 11 Y2 miles long section contracted in October, 1956, to extend from the west end of the Lebanon bypass west toward Conway. The remaining portion was opened earlier, the section now to be opened having been delayed awaiting completion of the bridge under the St.Louis and San Francisco Railroad at Phillipsburg." Koss Construction Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, was paid $3,004,808 for the 1l.5-mile project. F.D. Lyons of Lebanon was resident engineer. the nation on an Interstate Route under the expanded federal aid The same Dec. 3 issue of The Daily Record announced that the program. Lebanon Chamber of Commerce planned to erect three Scotch-lite "This 13.3 miles long improvement extends from the east end of (reflective) signs on the new highway west of the city to advertise the Lebanon by-pass easterly to Hazelgreen .... About 2.3 miles of Lebanon's shopping center, Bennett Spring State Park and the Lake the paving remains to be completed." of the Ozarks. Four-lane highways were so rare in rural Missouri 60 years ago Thirty-one years earlier, Col. A.T. Nelson had erected a sign • that in the same edition The Daily Record introduced a series of announcing to passing tourists that they were in Lebanon, not in articles from the Missouri State Highway Patrol "in an effort to Barnsdall, the name of the gasoline he sold. educate the driving public of Perhaps nothing signaled the end of an era more than this Today, 60 years later, Laclede and adjoining counties sentence from that 1957 Chamber of Commerce story: regarding travel and driving on "President Ward Krudwig reported that he contacted the Route 66 is more a 4-lane highway." Lebanon Neon Company and they have agreed to dismantle and Two more segments of temporarily store the neon arrow sign, located at the Nelson hotel." popular than it ever 1-44 remained to be opened in Less than eight months later, according to Route 66 historian Laclede County, on opposite Joe Sonderman, on July 29, 1958, with Elm Street no longer was when it ends of the county, meaning carrying Route 66 traffic, the iconic Nelson Hotel itself was sold to that two more segments of Consumers Markets. The hotel was torn down, and a supermarket, was a designated Route 66 remained to be now called King Cash Saver, was built on the site. replaced. A subsequent economic-impact study by the Missouri State federal highway On Nov. 4, the remaining Highway Department showed only a one-year dip in Lebanon's l. 7 miles of new pavement economy and that the bypass "seems to have had no permanent ill through Lebanon. between Lebanon and effect on the economy of the city.The growth trend existing prior to Hazelgreen, including a the opening was continued in 1959 at an increased rate, indicating 665-foot-long bridge over the Gasconade River, saw its first traffic. an expanding economy." This was the last section of the 13.3-mile project that was the first And today, 60 years later, Route 66 is more popular than it ever contract awarded under the Federal Aid Highway Act. Total cost of was when it was a designated federal highway through Lebanon. all 13.3 miles was $3,288,000. The end to the original two-lane Route 66 in Laclede County came on Dec. 4, 1957.Here's how it was announced the day before Gary Sosniecki is vice president of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route in The Daily Record: 66 Society and aformer editor and publisher of The Lebanon Daily "The remaining 7.2 miles of new pavement on Interstate Route Record 44 (now marked as U.S. Route 66) between Lebanon and Conway, in Laclede county, will be opened to traffic at 10 a.m. Wednesday of this week. Completion and opening of this section will complete dual pavement on Interstate Route 44 across Laclede county.
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1-44, Exit 264 - Eureka, MO Exit 265 - Park Exit Exit 266 - Visitor Center RAY WOODS TAKES A DIVE Ray Woods jumped from Route 66 bridges over the Mississippi and from the Brooklyn Bridge - twice! Somehow, he lived to tell about it.
ROUTE 66 HAS SEEN ITS SHARE OF PUBLICITY STUNTS, FADS AND DAREDEVILS. WHILE THE RUNNERS OF THE BUNION DERBY TRANSCONTINENTAL FOOTRACES MAY BE THE BEST REMEMBERED, A MILD MANNERED STUNT MAN FROM ST. LOUIS WAS EITHER THE BRAVEST- OR THE CRAZIEST. RAY WOODS NOT ONLY JUMPED FROM THE CHAIN OF ROCKS BRIDGE AND EVERY HIGH BRIDGE IN HIS HOMETOWN, BUT HE MADE DOZENS OF DEATH DEFYING LEAPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY DURING THE 1930S. HIS FINAL LEAP NEARLY KILLED HIM. BY JOE SONDERMAN
Ray Woods AgaIn yWoods was a he thought leaping from graduate of Soldan the top of the 40 foot igh School in St. tall superstructure would Louism who made his first have made a "fine dive." jump when he was just a But the small group of boy, diving 50 feet into just spectators decided that was three feet of water. At age enough excitement for one 17, he set a world's record day. Woods declared that with a 175-feet jump from McDonald's mistake was a lighthouse into Lake diving against the current • Michigan. He bore scars instead of with it. Two from other dives. Jumping hours after Woods made his from a bridge over the Big jump, McDonald's body was River in Missouri, he came recovered from the muddy up with his head in a bucket. riverbank. On a dive in Pocahontas, On October 23, 1926 Illinois, he badly scraped his Woods made two epic dives face and chest when he hit 45 minutes apart. The first the bottom of a seven foot leap was from the McKinley deep concrete pool. At age Bridge, which in a few weeks 22, Ray was the Western would become the first bridge AAU Platform High Dive over the Mississippi to carry Champion and relay medal lit • ltIau Pbol raphrr. US 66. Traffic came to a halt Thf" sk eteb at the J~fr shows how Ray ~Vood$ dives from a high bridge without being holder as a member of the kIlled. f1~ sr~nds w uh hi back (0 lh~ war- With his hands on his knees. Then he jumps and a crowd gathered at the b.H:k p/~c}n his arms horizontal wnh his body. As he irOu ibis he dmws: his hea.,ddo~nward Forest Park Highlands Swim and puts his erms above his head. He keeps his muscles completely relaxed uncit lIe IS about rail as Woods swayed forward JO feet from the water. By tbls rime hIS body is in a vertical posicion and be ten es his Team when he decided to mu. ell'S and falls into the water lik(' an arrow. A n ordinary dive would break his back. and plunged into the ice cold Thp cenrer pit-ture by a staff photographer shows Woods in the middle of a jack-knife take on the Mississippi. tuter he leaped from {he new Chain of Rock s bridge yesterday. He srood on the center churning river 79 feet below. SI"w of tile bru/~e which is 103 tee: above the W8t("{, Friends were waiting in a canoe In August, 1926 Robert nearby. fie preVIously had plunged from every bridge crossing the Mississippi River from I He only went under about six St. Louis fO New Orleans and when the Chain of Rocks Bridge was completed recemly, he McDonald of the North considered tluu he hJd to dive from it to keep his record good. feet and popped up quickly, A l rigtn. Ray has JUSt stepped on shore alter making the successful dive, He is 22 years End Rowing Club had old and lives at 5155 Waterman avenue. During the ten years he has been diving he has somehow missing huge pieces rnede about IJO hl-gh dives. He has only suffered one injury.Two yeazs ago he was about jumped to his death from to dive from a [ower erected in a Kansas City amuSt!ment park when the rower cotlepsea of driftwood. A couple of anr/ he fell 80 feet to a dance floor benear/!. fracruting both legs. He will dive at [he Dairy the Merchants Bridge over Show as a fret! srcrsction, companions from the swim ST. LOUIS STAR·TlMES OCTOBER 10, 1930 the Mississippi at St. Louis as team picked him up in a he sought to emulate Steve Brodie. Brodie found fame and fortune boat and pointed the craft downstream to the Eads Bridge. Woods after he supposedly leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge into New remarked only that it was cold. York's East River in 1886. But the veracity of his claim has been At the Eads Bridge, Woods paused only for a brief rubdown challenged. before he jumped upward, did a partial jackknife and nearly Just eight days after McDonald made his deadly dive, Woods overshot. This time, he took a beating. Woods' hands were swollen, jumped about 65 feet from the deck of the same bridge. According his face was red and his shirt was shredded. to the Post-Dispatch, Woods declared that dive was "easy" and
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reverse jack knife from 103 feet high into 14 feet of water. A crowd of a couple hundred people, including his wife, were on hand. Woods told reporters that "It is impossible to dive head first or jump more than 100 feet without turning over and landing on your back. The back jack-knife is the only safe way." The jumps continued, from the Peace Bridge berween the US and Canada at Buffalo, the George Washington (Aurora) Bridge in Seattle, the Burrard Bridge in Vancouver and the Key Bridge over the Potomac at Washington, DC. In 1932, a doctor told Woods that he must stop jumping or he would lose his eyesight because the retina in his right eye was loosened due to frequent hard contact with the water. Ray was undeterred. But then he attempted to leap from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The jump from the Bay Bridge was set for March 22, 1937. Just as Woods began the 186 foot plunge from the superstructure to the
On July 27, 1927, Woods completed his feat of diving off all four bridges crossing the Mississippi at St. Louis. This stunt was part of the celebration marking passage of a measure providing for completion of the southern approach to the Municipal Bridge, later known as the MacArthur Bridge. The Municipal/MacArthur Bridge would later carry US 66.He made the 125-foot leap in a scarlet swimming suit with the words "Spirit of St. Louis" emblazoned on it. Woods said he made the jumps for publicity, and the stunts helped him in his work as a physical instructor. He would earn money through personal appearances and hawking sponsor products after the dives. Woods went on a bridge diving tour of the southern states, which cost him his amateur status, and rhen he set his sights on Steve Brodie and rwo others who had jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge since. In August 1927, Ray attempted the jump but was thwarted by a cop. On June 25, 1928 he emerged from the East River saying he had jumped from the landmark span. But the press didn't believehe would really do it, and no reporters had shown up. He had to do it again! On June 29, with half a dozen photographers snapping away, he put on a chest protector, a diving helmet, trousers and socks before climbing over the rail and doing a perfect jack-knife ro the river 133 feet below. Ray would make 130 jumps from bridges across the country while suffering one serious injury. In 1928, he fell 80 feet after a guy wire snapped on a diving tower he was inspecting prior to a jump at a Kansas Ciry Amusement Park. Ray Woods had defied death from every bridge on the bay, a gust of wind blew him off balance. Woods landed nearly flat Mississippi berween Minneapolis and New Orleans. But in 1929, on his back and was pulled from the water unconscious and with a new bridge opened over the Mississippi River at the Chain five shattered vertebrae. Doctors gave him only a few hours to live. of Rocks in North St. Louis. The unique bridge featured a 24 When he continued to hold on they declared that he would never degree bend in the middle, placed there to prevent hindrance to walk again. Police charged him with evading the 50 cent toll. navigation. Ray felt he had to don the trunks again in order to A month later, his mother and his wife Bernice brought Woods keep his perfect record of jumps from all the Mississippi Bridges back to St. Louis for an operation at DePaul Hospital. He was here. It would be the third time he jumped from a bridge that paralyzed from the waist down, but the surgeons discovered the carried or would carry Route 66. spinal cord was not shattered. Doctors removed part of the crushed So it was on October 9, 1930 that he stood slightly below the third, fourth, and fifth vertebrae berween the shoulder blades. The vehicledeck of the new Chain of Rocks Bridge. The Post-Dispatch operation relievec!.pressure on the spinal cord and allowed nerve reported that he was clad in only a swimming suit, with no chest impulses to reach the lower part of the body. Ray vowed to be protector or helmet. With his back to the river, Woods did a walking within a year - "two years at the most." But he added "I'll
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never dive again. Even if I regain the use of my legs, I could never stand the physical shock of striking the water. And even if! could, I have no desire to dive now." Woods returned home and began treatment with an ultra modern slow-wave electric generator that used electrical pulses to stimulate his muscles.He exercised by lying flat, tensing and then relaxing his body. Woods moved with Bernice and his father-in-law to a lodge on the Meramec River, where he spent hours each day in the pool. Gradually, he left the wheelchair behind and was able to walk on crutches wearing a brace. In his recovery, Ray Woods had shown the same courage that it took to make those dangerous jumps. He went on to operate the Brooklyn Bridge Cafe in the West End of St. Louis for a few years. Then on Memorial Day 1940, he opened the Ray Woods Pool and When you combine your Beach at the Castlewood resort area on the Meramec River, close to Mikel Garrett, Agent 16437 Village Plaza View Dr home and auto insurance, Route 66. Ray designed the half moon shaped 18,000 square foot Wildwood, MO 63011 good things happen - like swimming pool. Fed by a spring, it was the largest pool in St. Louis Bus: 636-458-5055 www.mikelgarrett.com saving time and money. Just County and included a 100-foot high dive. Ray supervised the another way I'm here to help construction and even did some of the work himself. The area life go right". is now part of Castlewood State Park. CALL ME TODAY. Ironically, Ray would meet his end at age 35 in an accidental plunge. Woods and his wife had been living in Evanston, Illinois when they left for a Florida vacation in 1942. On April 10, he was fishing from a flatboat with an outboard motor on the St. John's River near Jacksonville, Florida. He apparently slipped and AState Farm® fell overboard while trying to untangle fishing lines during a high wind. He was not wearing the braces he normally used since the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company accident. Back home, his mother told reporters that his final wish State Farm Indemnity Company State Farm Fire and Casualty Company would be for his ashes to be scattered above the Mississippi River State Farm General Insurance Company he had conquered so many times. 1601490 Bloomington, IL
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PLEASEJOIN US IN WELCOMING THE FOLLOWING 58 NEW MEMBERS TO THE ROUTE 66 ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI. THESE NEW MEMBERSHIPS WERE RECEIVED DURING THE PERIOD OF JUNE 16,2017THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30,2017.
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 1,080 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 66 in Missouri!
• 66 Sports Bar & Restaurant - Webb City, MO • Doug & Alice Gensler - Nelson, MO • John O'Brien -Bland, MO • Sebastian Ambra - Petaluma, CA • Nick & Deanna Gerlich - Canyon, TX • Dave Ogan & Julie Rich - Turners, MO • Tammy Beasley & Kelly Robertson - Springfield, MO • Rich Green - Washington, IL • Old Kinderhook Resort - Camdenton, MO • Alan T. Beckman - St. Louis, MO • Dennis Grirher - St. Ann, MO • Janet & Virgil Parrish - Strafford, MO • Big Red Cup Cars - Springfield, MO • Richard Hall -Willowbrook, IL • Angela Paterek - Aurora, OH • Dean Bittick - Villa Ridge, MO • Michael L. Hanlen - St. Louis, MO • Dave & Becky Prigel- Brookline, MO • Bonanza Steakhouse - Lincoln, IL • Carrie Jones - St. Louis, MO • Scott & Tanja Rains - Bolivar, MO • Joel Braunstein - Casa Grande, AZ • Brenda D.Kuder - Ottawa, KS • Dennis & Kim Roedemeier - Cuba, MO • B~dget Inn - Conway, MO • Alan T. Lanzer - St. Louis, MO • Saving Church Gallery - Carthage, MO • Michael & Mary Burke - St. Louis, MO • "Legacy Barn" Event Center - Carthage, MO • Kevin Schettler - St. Peters, MO • Cherokee Firearms Indoor Shooting Range - Springfield, MO • Marvin Lawson - Springfield, MO • John W. Schoen - Rolla, MO • Circa STL Restaurant & Tavern - Des Peres, MO • Mark Mahy - Springfield, MO • Gleeretta Scott - Brownsburg, IN • Terry L. Clark - Chatham, IL • Sean McCaffrey - St. Louis, MO • Ruth Seboldt - Ozark, MO •James E. & Olivia A. Cornelison -Creve Coeur, MO • Ed & Ginny McGue - Ellisville, MO • Shirley's Tavern - Carterville, MO • Eugene Davidson - Sullivan, MO •Joan Merlo - St. Louis, MO • Rick & Pam Simpson -Springfield, MO • Dead Cow Saloon & Grill- Carterville, MO • Mike Montigne - Lake St. Louis, MO • Mark & Kelly Stone - Blue Springs, MO • Eclectic Originals - Waynesville, MO • Motel Safari - Tucumcari, NM • Dick & Jeanne Tudor - St. Louis,MO • Spike Ehrhardt - Hannibal, MO • Mother Road Naturals - Amarillo, TX • Kim Watkins - Sedalia, MO • Fanning 66 Outpost - Cuba, MO • Dorothy Mullen - St. Paul, MO • John Zollmann - Lake Ozark, MO • Oasis Hotel & Convention Center - Springfield, MO
ThisNew Members Report was prepared by Robert Gehl, Director of 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] and you will be included in the next edition of this report.
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COOKIN' FROM SCRATCH / PHILLIPS 66 CLICK'S ROUTE 66 GENERAL STORE Home of the "Route 66 King of the Rood "Get Your Click's on Route 66" at 1-44 Exit 145 ZISSER TIRE AND AUTO-KIRKWOOD Burger Challenge" & Historic Route 66 Full Service Auto Repair and Tire Sales Since 1999 OLD TOWNEANTIQUES & EATERY GASCOZARKTRADINGPOST & "0 destination to eXl'.erience"at 1-44 Exit 179 FLEA MARKET LAKE OZARK, MO Open Saturdays - Call (573) 433-0284 & Route 66! Open Doily 9 AM ROCKWOOD RESORT MOTEL Serving Families Since 1953 & Family Owned - DUENWEG,MO HOUSE SPRINGS, M_O _ Call 573-365-2460 DOUBLE D CAFE CENTER LINE AUTO BODY THE DOGPATCH STORE "I Got My Mouth Full at the Double D"- www.centerlineautobody.com - Call (636) 677-3370 Nostalgia Gifts, Collectibles and Decor Coli417-659-9000 JEFFERSON CITY, MO _ LEASBURG,MO __ EAGLEVILLE, MO MISSOURI DIVISION OFTOURISM BELMONT VINEYARDS & BISTRO A Destination Winery on Route 66 - EAGLEVILLE WELCOME CENTER Enjoy the show - Learn more at VisitMO.com Enjoy the show - Learn more at VisitMO.com Call (573) 885-7156 JOPLIN, MO ON ON DAGA CAVE STATE PARK www.mostateparks.com - www.onondagafriends.org ELLISVILLE MO COUNTRY CABOOSE WEDDING CHAPEL SCHAEFER AUTOBODY CENTERS Start your life together on the right track! RIO GRANDE U.S.A. BOOT - JEAN Auto Collision Repair, Rernishing, and Detailing www.countrycaboose.com Known for Low Prices - 1-44 Exit 214 East of Mobil (573) 132-5656 FRED & RED'S "Famous Since 1923" 1719Main Street - (417) 781-5341 SKIPPY'S ROUTE 661NN EUREKA,-'-'M'-'-'O"'-- ....• "Good Food for Good People" CHEROKEECHIEF TRADING POST GRANNY SHAFFER'S FAMILY RESTAURANT "Tastes Homemade Couse It Is!" 2728 N. Rangeline Antiques, Collectibles, & Mannequins LEBANON,MO HOLIDAYINN AT SIX FLAGS JOPLIN 66 HOSTEL Adiacent to Six Flogs on Historic Route 66 An inexpensive Lodging Place for Travelers BOB RUSSELLAUTO, INC. at1-44 Exit 261 Call (417) 624-7501 Oldest Auto Body Collision Repair Center in Laclede County Since 1961 - (417) 532-6335 KOA ST. LOUIS WEST / HISTORICROUTE 66 JOPLIN CONVENTION On Rt 66 - President's Award Winner 2008/2009 ANDVISITORS BUREAU CHARLIE'S FARMS & GARDENS ...where goodness grows for taste. May thru October. ROUTE 66 STATE PARK & VISITOR CENTER visitjoplinmo.com On Historic Highway - Route 66 Museum / JOPLIN MUSEUM COMPLEX CITY OF LEBANON Gift Shop A Missouri Ultimate 100 Destination Friendly People. Friendly Place. - www.lebanonmo.org SUPER SMOKERS BBQ JOPLIN PETRO TRUCK STOP CUSTOM LAWN CARE Zogat Rated "BBQ Best Bet" - World Champions The Perfect Spot to Refuel, Refresh and Relax Lawn Core - Pruning - Trimming - (417) 588-3448 JOPLIN TRANSMISSION & AUTO CENTER DOWD'S CATFISH & BARBEQUE "Get Your Auto Fixed on Route 66" (417) 626-7300 Serving "Award Winning Catfish and BBQ" on Route 66 - (417) 532-1777 JOPLIN WELCOME CENTER Enjoy the show on Route 66 - VisitMO.com
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JONESY'S ANTIQUES LAKE OF THE OZARKS CONVENTION & ROCK HILL, MO The Collector's Choice! Open 7 Days a Week! VISITOR BUREAU Midwest Vacation Fun Destination - www.funlake.com CITYOF ROCK HILL LEBANON AREA www.rockhillmo.com CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OZARK DISTILLERY Handcrafted at Lake of the Ozarks - TRAINWRECKSALOON LINDSAY CHEVROLET I LINDSAY FORD Tours Every Saturday - ozarkdistillery.com "Where The Trucks Are" on Route 66! - (417) 532-3114 ROBIN'SRESORT ROCK PORT, MO MUNGER MOSS MOTEL www.robinsresort.net - Call 573-348-2275 Your Home Away From Home ROCK PORT WELCOME CENTER www.mungermoss.com SEVENSPRINGS WINERY Enjoy the show - Learn more at VisitMO.com www.sevenspringswinery.com - Call 573-317-0100 ROUTE 66 MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER Let Us Display Your Route 66 Collection! THE GOLDEN DOOR MOTEL ROGERSVILLE, MO www.goldendoormotel.com - Call 573-348-2128 SHEPHERD HILLS FACTORY OUTLETS LAST CHANCE GARAGE On Rt. 66 Since 1960 - www.shephills.com YANKEE PEDDLERS TEA ROOM "A Fine Tradition in Fun Taste" - Call 573-348-5045 REBEL COFFEE ROASTER SLIM CHICKENS "Life Changing Chicken"- On Historic Route 66 at ROLLA,MO 1941 W. Elm PACIFIC MO ALEX'S PIZZA PALACE STARLITE LANES BEACONCAR & PET WASH Best Pizza for over 50 Years! Call 573-364-2669 Where The Fun Begins! Bowl on Historic Route 66! See our vintage "BEACON" Neon Sign from the former Beacon Motel! CITYOFROLLA THE VINTAGE COWGIRLAT WRINK'S "The Middle Everywhere" - www.rollacity.org MARKET CITY OF PACIFIC of Est. 1859 - www.pacif1cmissouri.com FALL CREEK ROCK SHOP WHIRLWIND RANCH ALPACAS Rock Shop on Route 66 - Yarns, Clothing & More! Reservations Required. D'ANGELOS Minerals, Fossils, Jewelry, Lapidary www.whirlwindranch.com "Home of the World Famous Pizza" - Call (636) 271-4466 KENT JEWELRY I ROUTE 66 ENGRAVING WILLARD OUARRIESINC. Creating Custom Jewelry & Gifts on the Route "You Call We Haul" - (417) 532-2728 DAVE SINCLAIR CHRYSLER-DODGE-JEEP-RAM MUFFLERMART "If it's not right, we'll make it right" Located at 100 East 6th Street - (573) 364-5434 MANCHESTER MO (636) 271-4055 ROB &KRICKET'S TATERPATCH CLASSIC THUNDERBIRD CLUB OF ST. LOUIS OLDROUTE 66 TRI-COUNTY ANTIQUE "Home of the Big Tater Since 1966" Dedicated to the Classic Thunderbird 1955-1957 MALL www.rollataterpatch.com PACIFIC AREACHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROLLA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MAPLEWOOD MO www.pacif1cchamber.com &VISITOR CENTER "Engineered for the Road" - www.visitralla.com PARAMOUNTJEWELERS RON SANSONE CONSTRUCTION INC. "See our Landmark Neon Sign Since 1946" Historical Restoration in Brick, Concrete 8. Stone - ROUTE 66 MOTORS www.paramountjewelers.com Call (636) 271-4844 Classic Cars and Used Cars - (573) 265-5200 • ROUTE 66 RAILFAN VISITOR CENTER- THE MULETOBACCO BARN MARSHFIELD, MO MAINLINE VIEWING AREA Let the Giant Sterling Hillbilly Wave You In! Route 66 Model Railroad Club - (636) 742-1678 BLACKBERRYCREEK RETREAT I THE MULE TRADING POST BED & BREAKFAST ROUTE 66 REALTORS Route 66 Items Antiques, Collectibles, "Nature's Beauty with Country Charm" www.route66realtors.com - (636) 271-6660 Knives & Swords, Southwest Pottery - (573) 364-4711 GRILLO'S CAFE THE MERAMEC VALLEY TOTEM POLE TRADINGPOST, INC. Breakfast Served All Day - Call (417) 859-7929 CURRENT NEWS MAGAZINE Antiques, Souvenirs, C-Store "Since 1933" MARSHFIELD AREA CHAMBER OF "Pacif1c's Hometown Community News Magazine" COMMERCE & TOURIST INFOCTR ST.CHARLES, MO www.marshfieldmochamberofcommerce.com PECULIAR, MO (417) 859-~925 FASTLANE CLASSIC CARS BODEN PHOTOGRAPHY "We Sell Investments That Accelerate" RV EXPRESS 66, LLC "Get Kicks on Route 66, Get Rest at RV Express 66!" NEON TIME PHELPS,MO Custom Neon & Vintage Sign Restoration WEBSTER COUNTY HISTORICAL (636) 940-7070 SOCIETY& MUSEUM KC OBSOLETE PARTS Mon.-Sat. 1-4 p.m. April-December. Ford Parts & Accessories - RT66 Gift Shop On Facebook - Call 417-468-7407 (417) 452-FORD (3673) ST. CLAIR MO BUDGET LODGING MILLER MO PHILLIPSBURG, MO "A Touch of Class For Less" - Call (636) 629-1000 HANGAR KAFE AT KINGSLEY FIELD BOAT TOWN BREWING CITY OF ST.CLAIR 'Flyin''Farmin' and 'Feedin' - Hangar Kafe Tap Room with Outdoor Area - 9 Craft Brews! Established 1843 - "We're Open For Business!" is What Your 'Needin' HAPPY TRAILS RV CENTER DANA'S SHAVED ICE AND ICE CREAM Full Service RV Dealer - Sales - Service - Rental Do Yourself a Flavor! OSAGE BEACH, MO 1(800) 743-6065 HENDERSON'S ANTIQUES ECONO LODGE INN &SUITES- HAPPYTRAILS RV PARK Architectural Artifacts for Home and Garden LAKE OFTHE OZARKS Full Service RV Park on Route 66 at Exit 123 off 1-44. Call (314) 795-2612 Guaranteed Clean Rooms - Call 573-348-1781 HISTORIC ROUTE 66 ANTIQUE MALL LEWIS CAFE INN ATHARBOUR RIDGE Antiques, Rt. 66 Memorabilia & More! Home Cooked Meals - Thanks for 78 Years! BED AND BREAKFAST 1-44 Exit 123 TripAdvisor Hall of Fame 2015 - OLD BUS STOP COFFEE SHOP www.HarbourRidgelnn.com AND ART GALLERY RICHLAND, MO Your Gathering Place to Stop and Relax on Route 66! LAKE MEDIA Day Trippin Magazine - Vacation News Magazine LARRY'SSERVICE ROUTE 66 CAR CLUB A-Blast-from-the-Past! Father's Day Car Show - Call (636) 629-5445 LAKETV NETWORK Your Lake of the Ozarks 24 Hour Info Station MYERS AFFORDABLE PLUMBING ST. CLAIR HISTORICAL MUSEUM mylaketv.com Prompt and Professional Service.
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VFW POST 2482 MUNGENAST CLASSIC AUTOMOBI LES SPRINGFIELD, MO On Route 66 in the former ort deco inspired & MOTORCYCLES MUSEUM Skylark Motel! Celebrating the Passion, Life, and Legacy AARON SACHS& ASSOCIATES of Dove Mungenast, Sr. (314) 481-1291 Committed to Community Service - (417) m-7777 ST.JAMES MO MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION B&N AUTO PARTS Visit our Coral Court Motel exhibit BEST WESTERN ROUTE 66 RAIL HAVEN GREENSTAYHOTEL &SUITES by the day or by the hour! Stay green and friendly Guests Get A True Rt. 66 Experience Since 1938 PEACOCK LOOP DINER BIG RED CUP CARS JOHNNIE'S ON ROUTE 66 Open 24 Hours! Animated Neon Sign! Classic American Muscle Cars - (417) 865-1735 Watch for Stag Neon Sign - Coldest Beer on www.PeacackLoapDiner.com www.BigRedCupCars.com Route 66 Since 1952! PUBLISHINGCONCEPTS, LLC BRICK&MORTARCOFFEE MURDON CONCRETE PRODUCTS Publishing eBooks, Travel Logs, Mops, Our love is]leople, our design is simple, our croft is Look for our Dripping Faucet Neon Sign! Web sites - (314) 781-8880 coffee. (417) 812-6539 PUBLIC HOUSE BREWINGCOMPANY ROUTE 66 ST. LOUIS BUD'S TIRE & WHEEL CO. "A Friend, a Pint, a Session" - Call (573) 261-3333 Route 66 St. Louis Books & Unique Handmade Items - Selling Tires & Wheels Over 50 Years on Route 66 route66stlouis.com SPURGEON'S "66" SERVICE CITYOF SPRINGFIELD "66" Station on Route 66 Since 1961 SAINT JOHN NEPOMUK CHAPEL De£artment of Planning & Development (417) 864-1037 ST.JAMES CHAMBER OFCOMMERCE The Oldest Czech Roman Catholic church in the New World (314) 231-0141 & TOURIST CENTER CHEROKEE FIREARMS INDOOR Visitwww.stjameschamber.net or Call (573) 265-6649 ST. LOUIS WELCOME CENTER SHOOTING RANGE Enjoy the show on Route 66 - VisitMO.com Full Gun Shop with Gun Rentals ST.JAMES WINERY Call (417) 868-8083 Locally Mode. Notionally Awarded. Since 1970. SOUTHWEST MARKET CUISINE Call (573) 265-7912 "Sandwiches Our Specialty" COLLEGE STREET CAFE A Classic Diner next to Route 66 Cor Museum - VACUUM CLEANER MUSEUM TED DREWES (417) 351-4255 AND FACTORY OUTLET "It Really is Good, Guys... and Gals!" www.vacuummuseum.com - 1(866) 444-9004 CROSSTOWN BARBEQUE T.FA THE FUTURE ANTIQUES Seringpeld's Original BBQ - Come See 46 Years The Leading Mid Century Dealer in the St. Louis Area ST.LOUIS MO of History at 1331 E. Division WHITESITI KARGUS STUDIO CURTIS ENTERPRISES AAAAUTO CLUB OF MISSOURI "Route 66 Splendor - An Adult Coloring Book" by Jo www.birthplaceofroute66.com We'reAlways With You Ann Kargus - www.joannkargus.com - (314)277-B099 DANNY'S SERVICE CENTER AUTO EVALUATORS, INC. Look for our original Neon Sign ForAll Your Automotive Needs - (314) 968-2992 ST. ROBERT, MO at West Bypass & W. Division! BLUEBERRY HILL- BAYMONT INN &SUITES / DR. MICHAELJ. CLARKE RESTAURANT & MUSIC CLUB ST. ROBERT-FT. LEONARD WOOD HISTORY MUSEUM OF www.BlueberryHill.com Hometown Hospitality at its Best OZARKS SCOUTING Open 7 Days 11a.m. - Wowee!!! CITYOF ST. ROBERT (417) 883-1636, Archiving SW Missouri CHUCK-A-BURGER "Come Grow With Us" - www.saintrobert.com Boy Scouting Heritage DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT COMFORT INN ESLICK ENTERPRISES Cruisin' Capitol of the Midwest since 1957 Unique Rustic Lodge - (573) 336-3553 David J. Eslick, Photographer - (417) 889-9332 CLNFUEL CONSULTING, LLC FAIRFIELD INN FIREWORKS SUPERMARKETS Providing Clean Transportation Options - Making Business Comfortable! - (573) 336-8600 Visit our locations in Springpeld & Gray Summit - Call 314-397-5308 Open All Year! FIRST STATE BANK, ST. ROBERT CREVECOEUR PAVING Together We Are Making Progress GENE'S GALLERY INC. Our Reputation Rides On Our Service - Bikes, Trikes & Service on Route 66 at 945 N. HAMPTON INN Glenstone - (800) 728-4363 www.CcpStl.com Hot 'On The House' Breakfast - (573) 336-3355 DEDICATED CAR CLUB GREAT RIVER ENGINEERING Visitus at: www.dedicatedcarclub.com LIBERTY LODGE OF SPRINGFIELD, INC. 66 Rooms on Route 66! - (573) 336-3121 www.greatrivereng.com DENT DEVI L of St. Louis PULASKI COUNTY ROUTE 66 Pointless Dent Removal www.dentdevi/.cam HISTORY MUSEUM ON THE SQUARE PRESERVATION "Where History Comes Alive on Route 66" (636) 230-7900 Route 66 Neon Pork Planned for St. Robert - DIRECTIONS SAINT LOUIS, LLC Route66Preservation.org HOTEL VANDIVORT St. Louis' Premier Tour Company - Upscale Bouti'lue Hotel in Downtown Springpeld - PULASKICOUNTYTOURISM BUREAU Call (417) 832-1515 offering Day Trips and Tours from St. Louis! &VISITORS CENTER DONUT DRIVE-IN "33 Miles of Original Route 66" - HURTS DONUT COMPANY Best Hand-cut Donuts in St. Louis on Route 66! www.pu/askicountyusa.com , KIRK WHEELER AUTOMOTIVE INC. EAT-RITE DINER ROUTE 66 DINER wheelerauto.com - "Your Work Truck bealer" Eat-Rite or Don't Eat At All "Food, Fun, and Fifties 24 Hours a Day!" (417) 886-2886 (573) 336-8989 FIRESTONE COMPLETE AUTO CARE LA QUINTA INN - SOUTH SPRINGFIELD On Route 66 at 6211 Chipeewa - SWEETWATER BAR-B-QUE Your Home While Traveling - (417) 890-6060 See Our Vintage "Bow-Tie Neon Sign! "A taste of the Ozarks" At 1-44 & Exit 163, Open Doily LOST SIGNAL BREWING HOWLlN'WOLF HOTRODS Croft Beer & BBQ on Route 66 at 610 W. College - "Old School Hot Rods Done Right" SHREWSBURY MO (417) 869-4755 J. BENTZINGER AND ASSOCIATES, INC. Manufacturers Representatives - "Surrounding our CITY OF SH REWSBURY LURVEY PROPERTIES Customers with Service" - (314) 549-5510 "A Proud Port of Historic Route 66" LUTTRELL AUCTION &LIVEMUSIC cityofshrewsbury.com Auction Every Week & Music Every Weekend- MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM www.luttrellauctionandmusic.com See the "Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis" SHREWSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Special Exhibit 6/25/16 - 7/16/17 MEXICAN VILLA EL TACO On Route 66 at 316 W. Kearney - MOONRISE HOTEL SPENCER,MO See our Vintage Neon Sign! World'slargest rotating man-mode moon! www.MoonriseHotel.cam SPENCER GARAGE See Spencer Restored on Historic Route 66
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MIKES UNIQUE - COLLECTABLE& STEAK 'N SHAKE SUNRISE BEACH, MO ANTIQUE FLEA MARKET Famous For Steakburgers & Route 66! 40,000 Sq. Ft. of Retro-Vinta!Je-Antiques just off BILL MANION ART & DESIGN STEWART AUTOSERVICE INC. Award Winning Art & Custom Design Route 66 at Sunshine & West Bypass Making Friends Since 1971 at 521 E. Commercial MISSOURI NEON COMPANY (417) 862-1796 SUNSET HILLS, MO Since 1934 - Custom Signs). Billboards, STONE EFFECTS Digital Displays - (800) 7118-1778 Architectural & Garden Elements by Design - CITY OF SUNSET HILLS (417) MITCHEM TIRE & WHEEL Call 840-3606 www.sunset-hills.com Selling Quality Tires on Route 66 Since 1939 TERRY'S AUTOSERVICE & TOWI NG LLC CRESTWOOD-SUNSET HILLSAREA MOTHER ROAD ANTIQUES & UNIQUES THE OLD GLASS PLACE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Visit the "BIGGEST" Little Antique Shop on Route 66! A Special Event Place - Call (417) 501-8035 ourchamber.com 10 AM-4 PM Apr I-Oct 1; Winter by cliance/appt. route66carcruise.org (417) 861-9917 TWIN MOTORCYCLE & TATTOO Home of the Route 66 Tattoo HOLIDAY INN ST. LOUISSW - ROUTE 66 Newly Remodeled - At intersection of Watson Rd. MOTHER ROAD MOTORCYCLES UNIVERSITY PLAZAHOTEL & Lindbergh Blvd. Late Model, Low Mileage Motorcycles AND CONVENTION CENTER www.WeBuyHarleys.com Full-Service Convention Facility on Route 66 UNION,MO NEON NIGHTS INC. WAVERLY HOUSE GIFTS& GALLERY Quality Wholesale Neon on Route 66 - Fine Art and Fine Craft Gallery - HUXEL'S AUTO REPAIR Call (417) 863-6366 www.waverlyhouse.com Used Parts for Old Cars 1940 to 1980 OASIS HOTEL & CONVENTION CENTER WILSON'S CHUCKWAGON INDIAN HARVESTTRADE For business and pleasure Burgers & BBQ on Route 66 at 1820 W. Kearney On Route 66 - www.indianharvesttrade.com (417) 862-1101 O'REILLY AUTO PARTS ROUTE 66 GREAT AMERICAN Visit www.oreillyauto.com FLEA MARKET STANTON,MO Open Saturdays & Sundays - OZARKS PUBLIC TELEVISION On Route 66 at Junction 1-44 & US 50 KOZK-Springfield / KOZJ-Joplin MERAMEC CAVERNS Visit us at www.optv.org Open Everyday! Oldest Stop on Route 66 VILLA RIDGE, MO OZARKSTECHNICAL --- COMMUNITY COLLEGE STRAFFORD, MO BOURBEUSE VALLEY HARLEY-DAVIDSON Transportation Technology Department Junction of 1-44 & Hwy 50 on Route 66 AUSTIN'S PUMPINGSERVICE QCMOTO "Service is not a Department, it's an Attitude" SUNSET MOTEL Located at Exit 84 on 1-44 and Historic Route 66 - (417) 987-9914 A Vintage Neon Night Scene along Historic Route 66! Call (417) 862-4343 BUSHMASTERS ROCKIN RACE PLACE R&S MEMORIAL DECORATIONS & HOTROD MUSEUM WALNUT GROVE, MO Making Memorial Decorations Since 1959 Located at MM #94 on 1-44 - The Place to Drink, 7C'S WINERY Call (417) 732-6263 Eat BBQ, Sniff Nitro. Live Nitro/Jet Dragster Fine Wine & Mead in a Country Setting Start-Ups on 'Saturdays • REDNECK NUTZ Sample our Nutz - All Local - Look for Squirrel! CHESTNUT PLAZA WASHINGTON,,_M_O _ At Corner of 1-44 and State Highway 125 REX SMITH OIL COMPANY IRON SPIKE MODEL TRAIN MUSEUM & on CITYOF STRAFFORD Family Owned Operated at & (636) The Best Small Town on Main Street USA - Route 66 Located Hwy 100 High Street - 667-3380 Bypass Route 66 Since 1933 www.lronSpike.org RJ'S ROUTE 66 DELCOUR PROPERTIES Alice DelCour - (417) 839-2152 Route 66 Collectibles Made in the USA WAYNESVILLE, ;;.;.M;.;:0i..-_ by Photographer Judy Walker - www.rjsroute66.com JOE'S ROUTE 66 DINER ALLSAFE SELF STORAGE ROUTE 66 BIKER GEAR Hand-breaded Pork Tenderloins, Hand-cut Onion Rings & Tater Fries Daily! Home-Business-Auto Climate Controlled Units - ROUTE 66 CAR MUSEUM Call 573-774-3800 STRAFFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Classic & Sports Cars - 1634 W. College St - CAVE STATE CRUISERS CAR CLUB Open Monday thru Saturday Call (417) 894-7653 for Information on 2014 "Route 66 Days" Event Car Show the Weekend After Father's Day (573) 435-9297 ROUTE 66 HOT DOGS www.route66hotdogs.com STRAFFORD BRANCH LIBRARY Cruise down Route 66 to the CITYOFWAYNESVILLE ROUTE 66 MISSOURI TOURS Strafford Branch Library! "On the Banks of the Roaring Roubidoux" Step-on Guides for Motorcoach Tours - on Historic Route 66! Call (417) 343-1567 THE CUTTINGROOM Give your hair a "Kick" on Route 66!! GET YOUR PICS ONROUTE 66 WITH PICS BY JAX LLC SPRINGFIELD AREA Historical Tours & Professional Photography CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SULLIVAN, MO Everywhere Should Be Like This - Call (417) 862-5567 ECLECTICORIGINALS SPRINGFIELD-GREENE COUNTY COMFY OZARKRENTAL HOME "An Ozark Gift Boutique" "Lodging for Route 66 Travelers on the Meramec LIBRARY CENTER HOPPERS PUB Drive Here to Research Route 66 and More! River" - Call 314-602-2389 "66 Brews on Route 66" - www.hopperspub.com SPRINGFIELD-GREENE COUNTY LIBRARY DU KUM INN RESTAURANT (573) 774-0135 Serving Route 66 Travelers Since 1961! LOCAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT LONE OAK PRINTINGCO. (573) 468-6114 Genealogy,. Family Heritage, "Where First Impressions Count" - and Civil War Research Center! HARRY'S TIRE, LLC Call (573) 774-3001 New Tires, Custom Wheels, & Tire Repair SPRINGFIELD-GREENE COUNTY NONA'SKITCHEN LIBRARY STATION (573) 468-4128 "The Little Green House on Route 66 on the Square" Cruise into the Library Station to view Car and Train Memorabilia! SCHMIDT AUTOCENTER (573) 774-2527 "Late Model Pre-Owned Vehicles Since 1954" PULASKICOUNTY HISTORICAL SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI (573) 468-2233 MUSEUM & SOCIETY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU Birthplace of Route 66 - Springfield, MO SULLIVAN AREA Open Saturdays Only 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. April thru Sept. 1 (800) 67EJ-8767 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SECURITY BANK OF PULASKI COUNTY "Spend The Night or a Lifetime" Established 1936 - On the Historic Pulaski County SPRINGFIELD/ROUTE 66 KOA www.sullivanmochamber.com Courthouse Square Great Camping on Route 66 Since 1972!
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(THEN) This vintage view of the Public Square in Springfield shows the circular "pie" in the middle that was in place from 1909 until 1947. The building at left was the home of Heer's Department Store from 1915 until 1995. The ten-story Landers Building at right was constructed in 1915. The office building was constructed by D.J. Landers and named in honor of his father, John Landers. In 1974, this center of Springfield was closed off to automobile traffic and renamed Park Central Square.
(NOW) The conversion to a pedestrian mall killed off most of the businesses by the time the square was re-opened to traffic beginning in 1988. New businesses and restaurants are now opening up and the Heer's Building has been converted to luxury apartments. The Landers Building houses state offices but is little changed today. The modern photo was taken from the trendy Civil Kitchen Restaurant as the sun set during the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in 2017.
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Along Historic Rt 66 is a popular landmark stop for any enthusiast, tourist, or local Ozark resident. In 1972, Shepherd Hills Factory Outlets .' started out as an outlet for locally made walnut bowls. Since then, it has grown from a small gift shop in Lebanon, MO to having 4 locations
® throughout Missouri and Kentucky. In addition, Shepherd Hills Cutlery is E THE WORLD'S LARGEST CASE XX COLLECTIBLE KNIFE DEALER and offers exclusive Shepherd Hills Cutlery Case XX pocket knives, which can be found in stores and online at www.CaseXX.com. Wether you're looking for that perfect gift for someone special or something to treat yourself, Shepherd Hills has a great selection. From cookware to binoculars to Precious Moments to jewelery to kitchen and pocket knives, there's something for everyone at IIIIW •• ® Shepherd %Us Pactory Outlets ! 1900 W. Elm, Lebanon, MO (1-44 Exit 127)
417-532-7000 or Toll Free 800-727-4643 WOSTHOF ZWILLING Find us on J.A.HENCKELS www.Facebook.com/ShepherdHills