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Representatives from three states and several tribes joined in the unveiling of Joplin’s newest Route 66 attraction on Friday. It’s all in preparation for the Mother Road’s centennial ...
JOPLIN, Mo. — Work is underway on a new mural at 7th and Main Street in Joplin. In a video provided to us by the city, the mural is shown being installed in the Route 66 Mural Park. It was ...
This is the second part of the Route 66 World 3-D Street Painting Festival that stretches into 2026 as Route 66 will celebrate 100 years. In ...
Michael Wallis, a historian, bestselling author and lecturer on Route 66 and the American West, will revisit Joplin on Friday ... in Webster Hall on the Missouri Southern State University campus.
Missouri Tourism has two different Route 66 itineraries, one that takes a person from St. Louis to about St. James, and the other from St. James to Joplin. There are some highlights among both ...
Route 66 traffic became so saturated and unsafe in the postwar era that Oklahoma built a turnpike between Tulsa and Joplin, Missouri in 1957, the route's first major bypass. Today Tulsa pays ...
All signs, collected and refurbished by private collectors, were once used to advertise along Route 66 in Missouri, stretching from St. Louis to Joplin. Along with the restored neon signs ...
Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins drive the first leg of Route 66. Join Mona Haydar and husband ... a tornado has touched down in southern Joplin. everybody if you are in southern Jasper or ...