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SMTD. Shea's Gas Station Museum Center piece The Mahan Filling Station located on Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois was transformed from a working Texaco, and later Marathon, station into a museum by owner Bill Shea and his wife Helen. The museum contained an eclectic mix of vintage gas station memorabilia collected over the last fifty years ...
July 31, 2024 at 4:20 AM. A Route 66 mainstay in the Springfield area just got a larger than-life-addition. Say hello to Big Ron. He’s three stories tall, surrounded by old-fashioned gas pumps ...
Added to NRHP. April 7, 2003. The Wagon Wheel Motel, Café and Station in Cuba, Missouri, is a 19-room independently owned historic U.S. Route 66 restored motel which has been serving travelers since 1938. The site opened as a café in 1936; the motel has remained in continuous operation since 1938. The motel rooms were fully restored in 2010 ...
U.S. Route 66 ( US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, the Mother Road or Main Street of America, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California. The highway had previously been Illinois Route 4 (IL 4) and ...
7. Tower Station and U-Drop Inn. Shamrock, TX. One of the most striking and iconic buildings on Route 66, Tower Station and the U-Drop Inn were built in 1936 in Art Deco style.
Shea's was operated as a Marathon station on Peoria Road from 1955 to 1982 and later converted into a Route 66 museum. Last spring, the Springfield city council voted to accept a $623,000 State of ...
The Mall of Louisiana is a mid-scale shopping mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between I-10 and Bluebonnet Blvd. It is the largest mall in Louisiana and contains the third largest indoor carousel in the world. [ 2] It is the only regional mall in Baton Rouge. The anchor stores are 2 Dillard's stores, Main Event Entertainment, JCPenney, and Macy's .
Now: Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Santa Rosa was bypassed by the 1972 construction of Interstate 40, which drew traffic from Route 66. It retains shreds of this past with a collection of classic hot ...