After leaving Smaterjax in Dwight, we took the original alignment to Odell to visit the Standard station. I would like to mention that Dwight should really have the Rt 66 shields on the pavement at the north and south ends of town, repainted. You can hardly seethem anymore.
Signed the guest book at the station and saw that in the past several days they had had at least ten people from overseas visit.
With our dollar in the toilet these days, I expect that quite a few English and Europeans will be on Rt 66. We may be complaining about high gas prices, but, to Europeans, this is mighty cheap gas as they're paying $6 to $8 a gallon. Plus, with the Euro worth $1.50 and pound worth $2, they are getting more BANG for their Buck.
Newest acquisition is an an old washer-dryer. It us quite rusty and I didn't even know what it was when the person there showed it to me. It looked like no washing machine I've ever seen. The dryer consisted of a pair of rollers at the top.
The people in the house with all the gas pumps a little north of the station were out and doing what looked like spring training. A few years ago, Odell was having a city-wide garage sale and the man had his garage open and there are lots of gas-related items in there as well.
Cruisin' the Old 66. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
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