Woman hits Route 66 to raise money for ISU October 23, 2005
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Terri Ryburn-Lamonte wants to raise money to buy pianos for Illinois State Univesity’s College of Fine Arts. The “Gettin’ Your Kicks on Route 66″ bus tour will start Nov. 12 at the Illinois Route 66 Museum in Pontiac and head south to sites in Bloomington-Normal, Funks Grove, Broadwell and Springfield. The story about the tour and other fund-raisers is here.
Wanna buy a business on Route 66? October 23, 2005
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Tulsa Transmission Center on 11th Street, which is Route 66 in Tulsa, is up for sale on eBay.
Listed at $850,000, it’s the most expensive Route 66-related item I’ve seen on that auction site.
Looking at the photographs, the building appears to have some Art Deco architecture. Because it’s listed as having been built in 1930, that would make sense. There are many, many Art Deco buildings in Tulsa from that time period.
Wanna free Route 66 book? October 23, 2005
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The very busy Emily Priddy, eastern vice president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association, is offering a volume you can download online. It’s called “Kids on 66,” which is a guidebook for parents who want to take their kids down Route 66. It’s a detailed state-by-state listing of tourist attractions in Route 66 cities that should appeal to both children and grown-ups. Priddy self-published the book a couple years ago and recently decided to offer it online for free.
Here is the Web site which contains a link to download a Microsoft Word file for the book.
UPDATE: You can now download the book as an Acrobat file here.
