Route 66: Sapulpa Oklahoma to Hinton Oklahoma
The chairs were all in neat rows. This low period of American history was to be the highlight of our day. It is actually off the route but is a must stop for travelers of route 66. I watched it on tv as it happened. I knew instantly that it was probably one of the worst instances of American terrorism committed by American terrorists. Oklahoma City is still scarred by what happened here in April 1995. Places the route takes you such as this don't actually exist on the route, but within the wider corridor of route 66. After all, the route, in it's heyday did not serve and an end, but a means. People took the route to visit places. Now our leisurely course takes us to a part of America's not to distant tragic past.
Blog from April 2012
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/05/route-66-afton-to-el-reno-oklahoma.html
Blog from October 2012
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/10/friday-19-october-2012.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-tulsa-to-stroud-oklahoma.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-stroud-oklahoma-and-rock-cafe.html
Doggy TeeVee
Bristow Oklahoma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristow,_Oklahoma
Stroud Oklahoma
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g51673-Stroud_Oklahoma-Vacations.html
Previous trips through Stroud, Oklahoma
This is one of my favorite googie signs. It has an interesting history...
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-tulsa-to-stroud-oklahoma.html
We didn't stop in Stroud this time. However, we found an obelisk southwest of Stroud on a gravel road....
Here is a story of the obelisk I found...
http://www.405magazine.com/April-2015/The-Mysterious-Monument-of-Lincoln-County-Oklahoma/
Ticks, chiggers and mosquito's, Oh MY!!!
A ruin befitting the Appian Way!
This was not quite the place we expected to find such a land mark. What is interesting is the guide that we followed seemed to travel over all era's of the route. This is obviously an earlier era going back to the Auto trail days...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Trail_(auto_trail)
On our way west, and hopefully past the gravel....
Davenport Oklahoma
http://www.davenportok.org/history.htm
Chandler Oklahoma
http://chandlerok.com
66 Bowl
https://www.facebook.com/66-Bowl-196074851263/
http://www.lincolnmotelchandler.us
We stopped here on our way through in April 2012....
http://www.route66interpretivecenter.org
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/05/route-66-afton-to-el-reno-oklahoma.html
Chandler is 66 and 66 is Chandler...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Turks-Country-Store/218286491537236
http://www.iowaycasino.com
http://seabastation.com
Al's Tire Shop
http://www.theboundaryon66.com
Lawless Gas Station
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/30069
Arcadia, Oklahoma
http://townofarcadia.com
Pops is a must see for us...
Blog from October 2012
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-pops-revisited.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/12/route-66-breaking-karma-with-road.html
Doggies need to stretch their legs...
Down time out of the tiny house on wheels...
Time for the obligatory pop bottle poses....
We really did not climb on the bottle...
Good for our diet... nom nom nom....
Get in mah' belly
From October 2012
The round barn...
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/arcadia_round_barn.html
Obligatory family photos...
This is an old gas station frozen in time...
I only had time to peek through the round barn...
Jimmy waiting on me...
I think I prefer our mobile out house....
Downtown Arcadia, this is the first time I've walked through here...
https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.24998/event.15773
Jimmy in the captains seat....
The old Arcadia gas station....
The Edmund Sun
http://www.edmondsun.com
http://www.news9.com
https://www.okhouse.gov/information/CapitolTours.aspx
https://towertheatreokc.com
We depart from the route to head south into town to visit the Murrah memorial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Murrah_Federal_Building
https://www.visitokc.com/listings/kaisers-diner/1122/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_National_Memorial
https://oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org
Jesus Wept...
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMB4R3_And_Jesus_Wept_Oklahoma_City_OK
Personal memorials outside the wall...
The footprint of the building is now a reflecting pool, bordered on both sides by an entry way...
The doggies were really good as always. We feared that they may have left a 'gift' on the perfectly manicured grounds. They didn't.
The chairs mark a person who was killed in the 1995 bombing.
The rows of chairs represent the floors on which people were killed. Smaller chairs represent children. Chairs outside the main body represent people who died outside of the building.
This is a quiet place.
I believe the change on the chair means that the person was a veteran...
http://bigfrog104.com/meanings-of-coins-left-on-graves/
"A penny at the grave means simply that you visited. A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together. A dime means you served with the solider in some capacity. A quarter, the biggest coin, has the biggest meaning. This means when at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when they were killed.
There isn't much you can say, or should say at a place like this. Silent reflection is most appropriate...
The tree is a symbol of survival...
https://oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/press-room/press-kit/survivor-tree/
We took a brief tour of downtown OKC...
http://downtownokc.com
There are lots of interesting businesses in this area but no time to explore... oh whell...
Gold Dome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Dome
It is fun to look at all the mid century signs and businesses which make the route through Oklahoma City very colorful...
I love the mid century arch house...
Leaving OKC now...
SOME body is really relaxed....
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/lake_overholser_bridge_oklahoma_city.html
Portland Concrete highway....
Yukon, Oklahoma
http://www.yukonok.gov
El Reno Oklahoma
I have a video of the frightening weather that can be found in El Reno in the spring. In 2013, some well known storm chasers lost their lives here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado
I was chasing in southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma on that day. I only caught a wall cloud. However, I do remember having a feeling of danger with all the storms and was extremely cautious...
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2013/06/southeast-kansasnortheast-oklahoma.html
The weather in Oklahoma can be frightening in the spring, especially in a rental car. Here is video from a hail storm in El Reno in the spring of 2012....
April 2012 Visit to El Reno
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/06/route-66-el-reno-oklahoma-to-tucumcari.html
More of the route west of el Reno looks very well preserved, like it was bypassed early and lightly traveled, which give a good glimpse of what the road may have looked like in the late 40's...
Another endangered bridge on the route...
http://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=oklahoma/us281canadian/
We found one of the few rest areas on the route..
Within view of here is an abandoned truck stop...
Abandoned truck stop in Hinton Oklahoma...
We decided to call it a day early with a casino nearby. The cost to us to stay here was only 5 dollars.
http://www.sugarcreekcasino.net/lodging/
It was electric hook ups only and there were only 4 spots. One of which was taken up by an Airstream trailer which belonged to one of the security people.
We enjoyed the sunset from our campground. The grounds were well lit and patrolled by onsite security...
Interesting signage
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hinton-Country-Inn-Motel/149312775095138
Night time photos of our camp ground...
The chairs were all in neat rows. This low period of American history was to be the highlight of our day. It is actually off the route but is a must stop for travelers of route 66. I watched it on tv as it happened. I knew instantly that it was probably one of the worst instances of American terrorism committed by American terrorists. Oklahoma City is still scarred by what happened here in April 1995. Places the route takes you such as this don't actually exist on the route, but within the wider corridor of route 66. After all, the route, in it's heyday did not serve and an end, but a means. People took the route to visit places. Now our leisurely course takes us to a part of America's not to distant tragic past.
Blog from April 2012
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/05/route-66-afton-to-el-reno-oklahoma.html
Blog from October 2012
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/10/friday-19-october-2012.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-tulsa-to-stroud-oklahoma.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-stroud-oklahoma-and-rock-cafe.html
Doggy TeeVee
We departed the storage lot/rv park west of Sapulpa....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristow,_Oklahoma
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g51673-Stroud_Oklahoma-Vacations.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-tulsa-to-stroud-oklahoma.html
Here is a story of the obelisk I found...
http://www.405magazine.com/April-2015/The-Mysterious-Monument-of-Lincoln-County-Oklahoma/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Trail_(auto_trail)
http://www.davenportok.org/history.htm
http://chandlerok.com
66 Bowl
https://www.facebook.com/66-Bowl-196074851263/
http://www.route66interpretivecenter.org
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/05/route-66-afton-to-el-reno-oklahoma.html
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/30069
http://townofarcadia.com
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/route-66-pops-revisited.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/12/route-66-breaking-karma-with-road.html
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/arcadia_round_barn.html
http://www.edmondsun.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Murrah_Federal_Building
https://oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMB4R3_And_Jesus_Wept_Oklahoma_City_OK
http://bigfrog104.com/meanings-of-coins-left-on-graves/
"A penny at the grave means simply that you visited. A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together. A dime means you served with the solider in some capacity. A quarter, the biggest coin, has the biggest meaning. This means when at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when they were killed.
According to tradition, the money left at graves in national cemeteries and state veterans cemeteries is eventually collected, and the funds are put toward maintaining the cemetery or paying burial costs for indigent veterans."
https://oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/press-room/press-kit/survivor-tree/
http://downtownokc.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Dome
http://www.yukonok.gov
I have a video of the frightening weather that can be found in El Reno in the spring. In 2013, some well known storm chasers lost their lives here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado
I was chasing in southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma on that day. I only caught a wall cloud. However, I do remember having a feeling of danger with all the storms and was extremely cautious...
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2013/06/southeast-kansasnortheast-oklahoma.html
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/06/route-66-el-reno-oklahoma-to-tucumcari.html
http://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=oklahoma/us281canadian/
Within view of here is an abandoned truck stop...
http://www.sugarcreekcasino.net/lodging/
It was electric hook ups only and there were only 4 spots. One of which was taken up by an Airstream trailer which belonged to one of the security people.
Road Buddha....
We walked to the truckstop and explored the area a little...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hinton-Country-Inn-Motel/149312775095138
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