Illinois' Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival-- Part 3-- Pontiac

Then, past the Merramec Caverns barn, the Old Log Cabin and into Pontiac which had one of the largest celebrations.

Stopped first at the Route 66 Association of Illinois Hall of Fame and Museum, signed in, and asked where the new Walldog Mural and Art Museum was and found it to be on the square right across from that wonderful courthouse of theirs.

I told the guy at the association's museum that I wished the Walldogs could have been at the old State Police Headquarters on 66 south of town. He said that the place could be bought for $1, but then there would be a $150,000 asbestos cleanup before anything could be done to it. It might have become a state police museum, but there already is one in Springfield.

All around town, there are miniature cars and trucks which local artists have painted as the summer project for the town, modeled on Chicago's Cows on Parade. One outside the Walldogs Museum was based on wonders of the world and painted by art students at the high school.

The Walldogs museum will be a welcome addition to Route 66 in Illinois. Part of the reason it is there is because of last year's huge project where about twenty murals were painted around the downtown square.

From One Dog to Another. --RoadDog