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Oklahoma Route 66 Continued... Page 2 |
 Above and next 3 below: Along Highway 66 between Chelsea and Claremore... |
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 Above: An historical marker for the old 66 bridge below |
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 The Blue Whale in Catoosa, OK - a must see on the Mother Road! This 1970s oddity has been renewed over the years and was recently purchased by the Town of Catoosa, to continue as a Route 66 roadside attraction. |
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 The old Arrowood Trading Post: Seen from across the street at The Blue Whale, the front of the building faces the 1926 alignment of Route 66 - a block east of the current roadway. Chief Wolf Robe Hunt was a full blooded Acoma Indian who opened the trading post here in the early 1950s, selling Indian Art and silverwork. |
 A view of Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza, which faces the old 11th Street bridge that once carried Route 66 traffic across the Arkansas River in Tulsa... |
 Rather than tearing it down, the city preserved the Route 66 bridge... |
 Cyrus Avery is often credited as the "Father of Route 66" for both his work in creating the route while a member of the Federal Highway System and for his role is establishing the US Highway 66 Association in order to pave and promote the roadway. The bronze sculptures are in amazing detail! |
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 The Arkansas River along Riverside Drive in downtown Tulsa |
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 On Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, this is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66. The village includes a 194-foot-tall oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World." |
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 Along a back road just off Route 66 near Depew... |
 ...and a lone sailboat on a tiny pond aside the old highway. You never know what you'll see along the road! |
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 "Downtown" Depew - began as "Hall" in 1898 and was renamed Depew in 1901... |
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 Circa 1915, The Ozark Trail was a network of locally maintained roads and highways organized by the Ozark Trails Association that predated the United States federal highway system. The roads ran from St. Louis, Missouri, to El Paso, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a series of routes...mostly unpaved and prior to the existence of Route 66. |
 Remains of an old garage just outside Davenport, OK |
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 A lovingly restored filling station in Davenport |
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 The Lincoln Motel - still in operation since 1939 |
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 This nicely repainted and restored Phillips 66 gas station was built in 1930... |
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 Above and next two below: Just leaving Chandler... |
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 Beautiful murals in Wellston, OK... |
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 Such pretty color in the tiniest of towns - Luther - with a population of about 1500, about 30 miles NE of Oklahoma City along Route 66. It was established in 1898. |
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