Elisa Crouch, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Along for the Ride columnist, recently paid a visit to the Museum of Transportation in west St. Louis County, Mo.
It’s a cool museum — lots of displays of trains and antique cars. But Route 66 fans will like it because of this display:
There were many other interesting things there, including a small section of the Coral Court Motel in Marlborough. The Coral Court was the famed art deco stop on Route 66 that was popular with travelers until Interstate 44 bypassed it. Then it became pay-by-the-hour, a hideout for a kidnapper in 1953, and eventually it closed in 1993. A few years later it was torn down for a subdivision.
For more, visit Shellee Graham’s excellent Coral Court site.