US-66 Overview
"Cruising" the town from north to south.
Route 66 Interpretive Center (Satellite)
In Oklahoma, you are never far from oil.
What would be a Route 66 museum be without a gift shop?
It has an event space.
I wonder what the building used to be because it is big.
Repurposed Gas Station (Satellite)
Westfall Phillips 66 Gas Station (Satellite)
Note the crank on the right side that was need to "ring up" the sale.
The downtown has some interesting architecture
But they are losing some of their architecture
Abandoned Gas Station (Satellite)
This is the post that motivated "cruising" this town.
Back in its better days.
Mural
Closed Douglas Grocery Store and Sinclair Gas Pump (Satellite)
Is the purpose of the bricks by the pump to deter theft?
True Value Hardware and Feed Mill (Satellite)
The thing that first caught my eye was the True Value Hardware store on the left. Unfortunately, they are becoming history. When we first moved into Downers Grove, IL, in 1976, there were three True Value hardware stores in town. Two of them were just a few blocks away. Unfortunately, we lost them decades ago. Now, if we need something from True Value, we have to go to
Western Springs.
The feed mill used to have rail service.
The rail service was an industrial spur off of the Frisco Mainline.
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