Along 66, May 2021: Red Cedar Inn to Reopen As a Visitors Center

MAY 25

Pacific, Missouri, signed a $2,2 million contract to turn the old Red Cedar Inn into a visitors center.  

The city purchased the place in 2017 for $290,000 and had hoped to reopen it this year, but the virus and other issues delayed it.

The restaurant was built by the Smith brothers on Route 66 in 1932.  Then a tavern was added to it a few years later.  Over the years quite a few notables visited it including baseball legends Dizzy Dean and Ted Williams.

It closed abruptly in 2005 and is on the NRHP.

We had planned to go to it after we "discovered" it in 2002, but it closed before we had the chance to go.  

--RoadDog