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Sapulpa Route 66 Christmas Chute, Rhema Lights final nights

The Route 66 Christmas Chute on Dewey Avenue in downtown Sapulpa, Oklahoma, has just two more nights to run, but it continues to be a popular attraction two months after its opening on November 3, 2022. Ten overhanging steel structures decorated with a variety of themes stand in the...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 31, 2022 12:13 PM

<em>Preposterous Papa</em>: Max Meyer's rules for tourist court clerks

In memory of Max Meyer and the natural stone tourist court he built on Route 66 north of Kellyville, an excerpt from Preposterous Papa by Lewis Meyer (pp. 99 - 102, 132-135): Papa was a compulsive builder. He went on building binges the way an alcoholic goes on drinking sprees....

Posted by Michael Bates on April 3, 2007 9:14 PM