The Baxter Springs Heritage Center and Museum in Baxter Springs, Kan., recently completed a $500,000 expansion, and will be hosting a daylong open house Saturday, reports the Joplin (Mo.) Globe. The open house starts at 9:30 a.m., with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at 2 p.m. About 7,600 square feet have been added to the museum, putting … Continue reading Open house set for Baxter Springs museum
Category: Museums
Wishing Well Motel memorabilia installed at museum
This week, not only is the Illinois Route 66 Museum and Hall of Fame in Pontiac celebrating its fifth anniversary, but the sign and wishing well from the gone-but-not-forgotten Wishing Well Motel of Countryside, Ill., has been installed on the museum's property. A large Route 66 mural also has been added to the building's south … Continue reading Wishing Well Motel memorabilia installed at museum
Details released about Oklahoma Pop museum
A news conference on Tuesday revealed all of the details about a proposed Oklahoma Pop museum in Tulsa, devoted to the history of the state's music and its popular culture. You can read more about it here. It was mentioned a few days ago that Route 66 would be part of the museum. Bob Blackburn, … Continue reading Details released about Oklahoma Pop museum
Stimulus money awarded for Route 66 welcome center
Money from the recently passed federal stimulus package will be used to partly fund the establishment of a Route 66 welcome center in Webb City, Mo., reports the Joplin Globe. The Route 66 Welcome Center in Webb City is to be developed in an old gasoline service station at Webb Street and Broadway. The project … Continue reading Stimulus money awarded for Route 66 welcome center
Music museum will also feature Route 66
Well, this is interesting. From the Tulsa World: The Oklahoma Historical Society hopes to bring its first facility to Tulsa in the form of a $33 million museum of music and popular culture located in the Brady District. Plans for the museum, which will be half the size of the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma … Continue reading Music museum will also feature Route 66
Scotty’s Route 66 soon will change owners
A purchase offer for Scotty's Route 66 Bar and Grill in Hamel, Ill., has been agreed to in principle, and the closing on the deal will occur May 21, says current co-owner Jim Allen. Allen says he hasn't yet met the new owners, who hail from the nearby Edwardsville-Granite City area. He and his wife … Continue reading Scotty’s Route 66 soon will change owners
Michael Martin Murphey playing benefit for Route 66 center
Veteran country-music star Michael Martin Murphey is performing another benefit concert for the Route 66 Interpretive Center of Chandler, Okla., on April 16. Murphey played a benefit for the center last year about this time. Apparently he is scheduled to be in Oklahoma City that week for an annual awards presentation at the National Cowboy … Continue reading Michael Martin Murphey playing benefit for Route 66 center
New museum opens next month in Santa Fe
The new New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., that is slated to open May 24 should be of interest to roadies. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: The museum explores how the West's various cultures clashed and blended over 400 years of written and spoken memory. It starts with new Mexico's native inhabitants … Continue reading New museum opens next month in Santa Fe
A take on Tulsa’s Mother Road
Urban Tulsa, the alternative weekly in town, has a report today about the still-being-planned Route 66 interpretive center in town. Many of the quotes are from Michael Wallis, author of the best-selling "Route 66: The Mother Road." Wallis' thoughts about the Route 66 center: "I saw this site as the key to really push Tulsa … Continue reading A take on Tulsa’s Mother Road
Museum acquires Wishing Well Motel memorabilia
The Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum has acquired memorabilia from the razed Wishing Well Motel in Countryside, Ill., including the wishing well itself, reports the Bloomington Pantagraph. The motel, which was built in 1941, was owned and operated by father and son Charles and Emil Vidas and their wives. Charles’ wife, Zora … Continue reading Museum acquires Wishing Well Motel memorabilia