The one I am MOST interested in is Windy City Road Warrior Dave Clark's personal project, the Castle Car Wash at 3801 Ogden Avenue, along the old Route 66 in Chicago.
It was built in 1925 as Murphy's Filling Station and is the last historically intact gas station inn the Chicagoland area (but not Illinois with those wonderful old stations in Dwight, Odell, and Mt. Olive)
It says the castlelike structure is vacant and deteriorating.
The Chicago Tribune had voting as to whether each building should be saved or destroyed. As of yesterday, it stood at 1,126 to save and 678 to destroy.
I'd sure like to see it saved as, once you get out of the Loop, there isn't much of 66left in Chicagoland until you get to Joliet.
Keep on Down That Route 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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