An old-fashioned general store museum recently opened at the National Route 66 Museum complex in Elk City, Oklahoma.
KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, as part of its ongoing “Is This a Great State or What” series, recently produced a segment about the faux store where nothing is for sale, but it can take visitors back a century or more:
More about the collection in the store:
We first found the same antique containers at the old Flying W Guest Ranch 15 years ago.
Don Whinery found them in a closed-down mercantile in Eastern Oklahoma.
“Some of the items, we didn’t know what they were,” he told us in 2007. “We had to go find out.”
All this was eventually donated to the Route 66 Museum complex in Elk City where it waited for a new building and a historian like Wren who could figure out how to set it all up.
In addition to the Route 66 museum, the complex also has an Old Town Museum, Farm & Ranch Museum and Blacksmith Museum.
(Image of the Route 66 General Store Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma, by Tara Hunt via Facebook)