Charcoal Oven restaurant soon will resurface on Oklahoma City’s Route 66

The Charcoal Oven restaurant in Oklahoma City — best known for its terrific neon sign — that closed four years ago will resurface soon along a Route 66 alignment in that town.

Don’t expect that neon sign to make a return, though.

OKCTalk.com, which is plugged into business happenings in that region, tweeted out the information Sunday:

That part of May Avenue south of Interstate 44 is Route 66.

Rhys Martin, the president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association who flagged the tweet on Facebook, said the restaurant’s original sign is in storage for the forthcoming Billboard Museum, also in Oklahoma City.

Americana enthusiast Charles Phoenix took video of the sign shortly before it came down:

The original Charcoal Oven was at 2701 Northwest Expressway, about a mile from Oklahoma 66/Interstate 44. David Wilson founded the original restaurant at that location in 1958.

(Image of the Charcoal Oven sign in Oklahoma City via OKCTalk.com)

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