Baxter Springs, KS: 1930 Phillips 66 Gas Station and Route 66 Visitors Center

(Satellite, 229 photos    Military Avenue was Route 66.)

Street View, Jul 2016

I used these maps to confirm that Route 66 ran north/south through this town.

1947 Joplin and 1954 Tulsa Quads @ 250,000

While looking for the Page 618 dragline in northeastern Cherokee County in Kansas, I came across this photo. That is what caused me to find this Route 66 museum.

Peter Cowling, Nov 2022

Ben Leary, Oct 2020

BaxterSpringsMusuem-visitors-center

Fan belts did not last as long back then.

M Jimenez, Nov 2022

I haven't seen a Phillips 66 gas station in the Midwest in decades. I had assumed they had been bought by someone and no longer exist. But I see there are still a lot of them down here.

Google

But everyone that I looked at had at most four pumps.

Street View, Jun 2019

And some are no longer Phillips 66.

Street View, Jun 2019