Taken at the American Sign Museum in the Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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At the Elbow Inn's BBQ pit on Route 66 in Devil's Elbow, Missouri on the Big Piney River. Every self respecting biker bar needs a sign like this.
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On Route 66 in Carthage, Missouri. During our trip down memory lane on Route 66 through Missouri and Kansas, we made it a point to stay in the old motels, eat at the old diners and yes, even watch a movie at the old drive-in theater in Carthage. While taking this photo, we met and talked at length to the owner who is on site selling tickets. He had been using it as a scrapyard, but decided to renovate and reopen it as a theater. It is a major hit. Although it didn't get dark until after 9, lines were forming at the entrance around 6:30. If truth be known, we didn't make it through the double feature.
From Wikipedia: "66 Drive-In is a historic drive-in theater along U.S. Route 66 in Carthage, Missouri which opened on September 22, 1949, four years before the first local television stations signed on in the Joplin-Springfield area. In an era before widespread adoption of transistors and before the invention of integrated circuits, car radios were not standard equipment in all vehicles. The few radios installed in vehicles were of vacuum tube design and power-hungry by modern standards. A series of poles in the car park of the nine-acre site were therefore deployed to hold loudspeakers so that viewers could hear the movie.
When television became a rival to cinema in the 1950s, movie studios went to widescreen format to differentiate their product from broadcast TV; the drive-in's screen was widened sometime after 1953 to accommodate the change in format. A playground was added on-site during the baby boom era.
The cinema was closed in 1985, but was renovated and reopened in 1998. It now shows two movies Friday, Saturday, Sunday every week.
The speakers are now gone, although the poles which once supported them remain.
A drive-in movie venue with many strong similarities to the original 66 Drive-In design (such as the original 4:3 screen aspect ratio, pole-mounted speakers and neon signage on the marquée) appears during the epilogue of Pixar's 2006 film Cars. The fictional drive-in is depicted as screening parody versions of other Pixar feature films."
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On Route 66 in downtown Baxter Springs, Kansas. Lots of places along the route mention the fact somewhere in their business. Might as well take advantage of one's location.
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Route 66 in McLean, Illinois. This sign was quite prominent from our motel across the street and is for a famous Route 66 business.
From Wikipedia: "The Dixie Travel Plaza, previously known as the Dixie Truck Stop and Dixie Trucker's Home, is a large trucker and travel plaza located in McLean, Illinois, on Interstate 55. It was established by J.P. Walters and John Geske in 1928 on old US Route 66 as a small sandwich stand in a truck mechanic's garage. By 1930, quickly growing demand had necessitated expansion into a full-size restaurant. The restaurant was expanded several times afterwards, and rebuilt once after a fire in 1965. Walters, Geske and the Dixie Trucker's Home have been recognized by the Route 66 Association of Illinois for their contributions—from 1926 to 1977—to the character of Route 66. They were inducted into the association's hall of fame on June 9, 1990. Dixie was previously home to the Route 66 Hall of Fame when it opened in 1990. In 2003, after Dixie changed ownership, the museum was moved to a new, larger location in Pontiac, Illinois.
Dixie Travel Plaza is frequently mentioned in travel books and histories of Old US Route 66. It has also been the subject of articles in the Chicago Tribune in articles about Old Route 66. Dixie was referred to as "one of the most impressive" late night stops along I-55. When the Interstate system was constructed and Route 66 was decommissioned, the portion of Route 66 that Dixie was located on became a portion of I-55."
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