MARCH 19-- Chuck Berry died in St. Louis at age 90. A real big reason we still have rock and roll.
MARCH 22-- Ruby Street Bridge in Joliet, Illinois, will be undergoing months of repairs. It is a classic bridge, built in 1935, rehabilitated in 1972 and 2011. It is 400 feet long and crosses the Des Plaines River.
A real pretty bridge.
MARCH 24-- Pontiac, Illinois, to get a new museum. It will be the Basketball Museum of Illinois which has gotten the green light in town and will open late 2017 or 2018. It will cover all things basketball in the state. And that will no doubt include Herbron, Illinois, whose small high school shocked everyone back in the early 1950s when they won the state championship.
It will be in a closed K-Mart store and will be operated by the Illinois Basket ball Coaches Association Plans call for it to be next door to a planned Route 66 Museum of Transportation.
This will bring the total number of museums in Pontiac to seven.
Truly a museum and mural city.
--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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