Commerce to Afton, Oklahoma. On Route 66 in Oklahoma last month. During week two of the Route 66 road trip in February I drove the entire length of the Mother Road through Oklahoma from east […]
Category Archives: Route 66
Tulsa’s deco churches
Route 66 in Oklahoma. Tulsa’s astounding ecclesiastical art deco architecture. First, Christ the King Church, which is noted as a combination of Gothic, Byzantine and Art Deco architecture (1926). It is quite an unusual building […]
Tulsa’s Downtown Deco District
Route 66 in Oklahoma. Art deco in the historic Tulsa downtown. The old central business district of Tulsa has a remarkable concentration of surviving historic architecture. It is part of the Tulsa Oil Capital Historic District. […]
Tulsa art deco
Route 66 in Oklahoma. Tulsa Art Deco. It is no secret. I really like art deco, and Tulsa has lots and lots of it. Tulsa’s art deco architecture is simply astounding. The quantity of it, […]
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath. Rural Oklahoma along Route 66, in February 2017. My Route 66 posts so far have been east-to-west. These are west-to-east (with some rearrangement here and there for thematic reasons). Why start […]
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Route 66, Day 6. Kansas. Yes, Dorothy, we are not in Kansas anymore. (In fact, as I write this, I am in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.) I don’t know how long your house was in […]
Route 66 in Missouri: the gas stations and garages
Route 66 in Missouri: the garages and gas stations. Can’t get enough of these? Here you go! Many of these are of the Gay Parita gas station at Paris Junction, MO. It is the best. […]
Route 66 in Missouri – the motels
Route 66 in Missouri: the old motels and hotels. Some are lovingly restored; some are a little worse for wear; some are pretty down-and-out; and then there the ones that are truly out-and-out. In this […]
Route 66 in Missouri – Springfield to Jasper
Day 6. Route 66 in Missouri, Springfield to the Kansas state line at Jasper. I did some photography in Springfield in the morning. Very quiet. It had its moments; the Arabesque landmark Shrine Mosque theater […]
Route 66 in Missouri: Rolla to Springfield
Day 5. Route 66 in Missouri, Rolla to Springfield. Missouri has some fine stretches of the old road. That is, when one can get on them. Parts of Route 66 in Missouri have been completely […]
Route 66 in Missouri – crossing the Mississippi
Day 4 – Crossing the Mississippi. St. Louis to Rolla. The first pictures are on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. First, the site on the river where Lewis and Clark set out on their […]
Springfield to Granite City and the Mississippi
Day 3 (continued). Thursday 9 Feb. Springfield to Granite City on the banks of the Mississippi. The next morning I crossed over to Missouri. To the left is a vintage postcard of the Chain of […]
Springfield IL
Day 3. Springfield, Thursday 9 Feb. It’s the capital of the State of Illinois. The old and new capitol buildings are impressive. The first three were taken the day before at the end of Day […]
Bloomington to Springfield – Snow Day
Route 66, Day 2, Wednesday 8 Feb. –Bloomington to Springfield. Snow Day. The good news: the car was fine. They looked at it right away when I showed up first thing in the morning at the […]
Wilmington to Bloomington IL
Route 66, Day 1 (Tuesday 7 Feb.) – Wilmington to Bloomington. It was a special day. My first on Route 66 on the Epic USA Road Trip. Fantastic. It was like parachuting into a completely […]
Plainfield
On the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in Plainfield, IL, Sept. 2016. Leaving Joliet on the Plainfield Road in the direction of my next stop, Plainfield, I passed a monument commemorating the construction of the Lincoln […]
Joliet bound
On the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in Joliet, IL, Sept. 2016. This is one of two Lincoln Highway cities in Illinois where the Lincoln and Route 66 meet up (the other being Plainfield). […]