MISSOURI - KANSAS - OKLAHOMA - TEXAS
December 31, 2004 - January 3, 2005



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OK_TX200502.JPG (199667 bytes) Sign for Gretchen Wilson Park - near U.S. 40 - Pocatontas, Illinois
OK_TX200503.JPG (175922 bytes) Gateway Arch - St. Louis, Missouri
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OK_TX200506.JPG (280586 bytes) Eisler Bros. Old Riverton Store - Riverton, Kansas
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OK_TX200508.JPG (111467 bytes) The sunset along 66 in Riverton, Kansas
OK_TX200509.JPG (224350 bytes) Our PT Cruiser (rental car) on the Rainbow (Marsh Arch) Bridge, Kansas
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OK_TX200512.JPG (182432 bytes) Waylan's Ku-Ku Burgers - Miami, Oklahoma
OK_TX200513.JPG (206127 bytes) Old Phillips 66 "cottage style" station - Chandler, Oklahoma
OK_TX200514.JPG (267073 bytes) Last year, we made a similar trip, and again visited the Deluxe Inn, which was formerly the Big 8 in El Reno, Oklahoma.  The Big 8 Motel was featured in the movie Rain Man. We had found the same room Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman stayed in and looked in the windows and were surprised to find that the room was different (even though we'd heard the movie scene was filmed in that room. In the film, the bathroom is shown directly in the back wall of the room, opposite the entrance door. When we peeked in the windows, the bathroom was off to the right side (?).  Pat decided to investigate and walked around the back. He found that at the room, the back wall had been cut out and replaced.  Pat's theory is that for logistical filming reasons, they needed to have the bathroom in the back, and constructed a fake bathroom set in back. When the movie was done, the room was restored back.
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OK_TX200523.JPG (235144 bytes) Big Texan - Amarillo, Texas
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OK_TX200525.JPG (206837 bytes) Old gas station - Adrian Texas 
Check out the "Time Frame" (then and now) we have of this building!
OK_TX200526.JPG (273964 bytes) The MidPoint Cafe - Adrian, Texas
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OK_TX200530.JPG (110833 bytes) Former Greyhound Bus Station - Amarillo, Texas (a Then & Now photo will be coming soon!)
OK_TX200531.JPG (200191 bytes) The site of the former Big Texan - Amarillo, Texas
OK_TX200532.JPG (241026 bytes) Woods Inn - Amarillo, Texas
OK_TX200533.JPG (140896 bytes) Jericho Gap - between Alanreed and McLean, Texas
OK_TX200534.JPG (291760 bytes) Cows along the roadside - between Erick and Texola, Oklahoma
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OK_TX200537.JPG (116341 bytes) Rock Cafe - Stroud, Oklahoma
OK_TX200538.JPG (180997 bytes) Bristow, Oklahoma
OK_TX200539.JPG (116763 bytes) Desert Hills Motel - Tulsa, Oklahoma
OK_TX200540.JPG (135783 bytes) Clanton's - Vinita, Oklahoma
OK_TX200541.JPG (156166 bytes) Travelers and truckers heading west near Afton, Oklahoma
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OK_TX200543.JPG (201152 bytes) Unusual public toilet in a park off an old alignment of Rt 66 (1926 - 1932) - near Quapaw, Oklahoma
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OK_TX200545.JPG (425075 bytes) John's Modern Cabins - near Rolla, Missouri
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The newly renovated U-Drop-Inn

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