Newest neon sign lights up the sky on Tulsa’s Route 66

Yet another new neon sign — the Tulsa Welding School — is aglow along the 11th Street alignment of Route 66 in Tulsa.

The Tulsa Route 66 Commission posted a photo of the new sign Thursday, just hours after Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios on Route 66 lighted its new signs.

Here’s another close-up of the sign photographed by Rhys Martin, president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association:

Tulsa Welding School is one of several businesses that have been a beneficiary of the city’s Route 66 neon-sign grant program that restores old neon or provides cost-share grants for new neons signs.

Others that have received grants are:

• Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios on Route 66
• Flo’s Burger Diner
• Burnett’s Flowers
• Cities Service Station
• Interparts of Tulsa
• U.S. Studio 66
• Tally’s Good Food Cafe
• Billy Ray’s Catfish and BBQ
• Renaissance Brewing Co.
• Bobby O’s Slices and Pies (sign not yet live)

To top it off, the city is building a small park on the south side of the 11th Street Bridge that will contain three re-creations of neon signs from long-defunct Route 66 businesses in Tulsa. It’s expected to be finished by late summer.

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