Along 66, October 2017: Missouri Neon Comes Home

Oct. 21--  The Friends of the Mother Road donated the neon signs from the Stanley Cour-Tel and Lin-Air motels in St. Louis to the future Route 66 Neon Park in St. Roberts, Missouri.  These two motels had been razed for the expansion of the St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

The friends had relocated the signs to Henry's Rabbit Ranch in Staunton, Illinois in 2004  Rich Henry says that storms had blown them down, but now the signs are indoors.

The Stanley Cour-Tel had housed the Apollo 1 astronauts while they trained for the first manned space mission of that phase of our space program.

The Route 66 Neon Park will be located at the George M. Reed Roadside Park (where the tank is located) in St. Roberts (Fort Leonard Wood)  Eligible signs for the park have to be from the original Route 66 from 1926 to 1985 and abandoned or without a home.

And, we know those Missouri folks know their neon.

They had just taken the neon signs a short time before we passed through there on our 66 on 66 Cruise.

Thanks for Holding On to Them Rich Henry.  --RoadNeon