Along 66, Jan. 2019: Rockwood Court's Restaurant Opens, No Basketball Museum in Pontiac

JANUARY 11--  Rockwood Court in Springfield, Missouri has reopened its restaurant and the remaining part will be reopening as apartments and a motel.  The restaurant is called Big Foot Subs.

It was purchased by Dannie Wright in July 2018.

If this is the place I am thinking about, the buildings are clad in that wonderful giraffe stone.  We ate at the previous restaurant several years back and the food was good.  The owners showed us the inside of one of the rooms and it was disgusting.

I see she was just granted a liquor license to sell beer at her store.  It used to be Tubby's Diner.

JANUARY 12--  The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association is ending their pursuit of having their Basketball Museum of Illinois in Pontiac, Illinois.  They fell short on their fundraising.  They were trying to open in the vacant K-Mart building on the old four-lane Route 66 bypass.

Too bad.  One more museum for the City of Museums would be fine with me.

You Can Never Have Too Many Museums.  --RoadDog