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| Street View, Jun 2019 |
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| Matthew Nichols, Sep 2017 |
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| Matthew Nichols, Oct 2017 |
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| 1943/45 Oxford Quad @ 62,500 |
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Oxford, MS: 1872 Conference Center/IC Depot
(Satellite)
Springfield, IL: US-66: Museums, Bars, Old Gas Station and Motels
The satellite information is with each item.
US-66 Overview
Until recently, it was just a shell of a building.
Cruising from South to North
Route 66 Motorheads Bar & Grill, Museum and Entertainment Complex (Satellite)
An American Giant on the left and a Texaco filling station in the middle.
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
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| Facebook Reel |
They are restoring it for the 100th anniversary in 2026. I see Texaco, Marathon and Phillips 66 on the pump globes.
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
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| Susan E, Jun 2026 |
Until recently, it was just a shell of a building.
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| Street View, Jul 2023 |
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| JIN MOROOKA, Oct 2025 |
The Stadium Smokehouse Bar and Grill (Satellite)
South side:
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
North side:
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
Illinois Route 66 Experience at Illinois State Fairground (Satellite)
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| Amanda Schaefer, Jul 2025 |
Kim Wargo Malander posted 15 photos with the comment: "Route 66 Experience at the Springfield, Illinois State Fair Grounds."
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Lazy A Motel (Satellite)
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
Countryside Inn (Satellite)
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
Pioneer Motel (Satellite)
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| Street View, Sep 2014 |
Map
This taught me to move east from 6th Street to 9th Street when I got to Spruce Street.
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| Louis Glunz posted via Dennis DeBruler 1938 Chicago Tribune article |
The Town
Trese Foster posted 14 photos with the comment: "Lots to see today in Springfield, Illinois locations are at the State fairgrounds, Illinois history museum(free) and Cozy Dog drive-in and Sheas gas station."
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| David Kennedy commented on Trese's post A must see in Springfield, IL, Motorheads! |
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Surfside, FL: Champlain Towers Collapsed Jun 24, 2021, killing 98 people
(Satellite, I think Ocean88 Condominium reused the land.)
I presume the building's design was submitted to the town to get a building permit. I had to do that in Downers Grove, IL, for something as simple as a deck. And I was told that I had to redo the design using larger boards for the deck joists. (I used boards specified by a book that I checked out from the library.) The video did not discuss why the inadequate design was not caught by the permit review. Nor did it discuss why the building issues were not caught by the building inspectors.
"The failure probably started about three weeks before the collapse when two connections between garage columns and the pool deck slab failed." The design did not meet building code standards for a margin of safety, so the two initial failures cascaded. [@ 5:00]
The critically low margins against failure existed from the time the building was constructed. The design was severely inadequate, and it was not built according to the design Loads added to the structure during its life further reduced those margins. The triggering cause of the initial failures was probably long-term degradation from corrosion. [@ 7:54]
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| 10:19 video @ 3:42 |
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I presume the building's design was submitted to the town to get a building permit. I had to do that in Downers Grove, IL, for something as simple as a deck. And I was told that I had to redo the design using larger boards for the deck joists. (I used boards specified by a book that I checked out from the library.) The video did not discuss why the inadequate design was not caught by the permit review. Nor did it discuss why the building issues were not caught by the building inspectors.
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