Here are a few scenes of Laclede County businesses and landmarks along Route 66 during the highway's heyday. The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society welcomes additional historic photos for this website. Please send jpgs to lebanonroute66@gmail.com.
A 31-minute video by Alva Hazell telling the story of Lebanon’s shuttered Kmart being converted into the 41,000-square-foot Lebanon-Laclede County Library was shown Thursday night at a special Rotary meeting celebrating the 15th anniversary of the new library. The Lebanon Route 66 Museum is …
The electronic signs in the eastbound lane of Route 66 approaching Hazelgreen, Missouri, no longer alert drivers that the Gasconade River Bridge is closed.
New video released by the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge Guardians.
Rain at dawn may have reduced the number of classic cars in the parade, but the skies quickly cleared and the 2019 Lebanon Route 66 Festival drew at least as many people Saturday as last year, Loretta Young, the festival’s general chairman, said as the event wrapped up.
After four months of restoration by a dedicated crew of volunteers, the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society dedicated the last surviving Camp Joy cabin Saturday in a ceremony at the Lebanon Route 66 Festival in Route 66-themed Boswell Park, the cabin’s new home.
About 40 cars and trucks, plus several motorcyclists, took part in this morning's annual Lebanon Route 66 Festival parade from the Lebanon Industrial Park to Boswell Park, all on Route 66.
The scene Friday night along East Route 66 in Lebanon could have been from 1957, before Interstate 44 replaced The Mother Road as the primary east-west route through Laclede County.
Members of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society made three important discoveries Saturday while gutting the last surviving Camp Joy cabin in preparation for its restoration and move to Route 66-themed Boswell Park.
A sign advertising CAFÉ, FRIED CHICKEN and HOME MADE PIE and a rocket that once stood along the road are all that are left at the former site of the Satellite Cafe and Phillips 66 Space Station, just west of the I-44 Speedway, four miles east of Lebanon on Route 66.
Five officers and members of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society spoke Thursday about Route 66 and its impact on the community, past and present, to the Ozark Studies class at Lebanon High School.
"The Route 66 Toybus" was the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society's entry in Saturday's Lebanon Christmas Parade, which had the theme, "A Toyland Christmas." For the third year, the Route 66 Society decorated a 1947 GM Flxibile—that's the spelling on the nameplate— bus owned by President…
More than 400 well-wishers toured The Manor House Inn, the one-time Lenz Homotel of Route 66 fame, the afternoon of Oct. 9 as the new owners and the Lebanon community celebrated its grand opening following eight months of remodeling and restoration. "You'd be hard-pressed to find something t…
An estimated 2,500 attended Saturday activities at the 2018 Lebanon Route 66 Festival in Boswell Park. A parade and cruise-in of antique, classic and custom cars, music by four bands, a variety of food selections, craft and memorabilia dealers, kids' games and drawings for prizes ranging fro…
About 100 antique, classic and custom vehicles -- even an old Greyhound Bus -- participated in Saturday's Lebanon Route 66 Festival parade. The vehicles lined up in the Lebanon Industrial Park and drove down Route 66 to Route 66-themed Boswell Park. Janet McAllister was grand marshal in her …
The first night of the 2018 Lebanon Route 66 Festival was a rousing success with about 200 people and more than 60 antique, classic and custom vehicles participating in the festivities at the Munger Moss Motel. Jess McEntire and America's Route 66 Band performed much of the evening. Business…
Eleven members of Lebanon's Sunbonnet Garden Club heard a presentation by Leland Townsend, a board member of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society, Thursday afternoon (May 24) about the recently completed Route 66 Mural Project in Boswell Park. Townsend was assisted by Jason Parnell of…
A Mural Dedication and Donor Recognition Ceremony for the third and final Route 66 mural in Boswell Park was held Sunday, May 6.
If you missed seeing us promote Route 66 in Lebanon and Laclede County on Fidelity Cable Channel 6, here's the Route 66 segment from the current Lebanon-REDI Report, courtesy of Brian P. Thompson, CEO of Lebanon Regional Economic Development Inc.
If you missed seeing us promote Route 66 in Lebanon and Laclede County on Fidelity Cable Channel 6, here's the Route 66 segment from the current Lebanon-REDI Report, courtesy of Brian P. Thompson, CEO of Lebanon Regional Economic Development Inc.
About 90 vintage vehicles, including hearses, funeral coaches, ambulances and limousines from as far as New Brunswick, Canada, plus local collector cars and trucks were on public display Saturday, July 22 at the Cowan Civic Center as part of The Professional Car Society's four-day meeting in…
Members of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society Festival Committee meet this morning at Boswell Park to finalize plans for this weekend's Lebanon Route 66 Festival.
Drone footage of flooding on April 30, 2017, from Mid Missouri Aerial.
Bill Jones, president of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society, and Gary Sosniecki, vice president, presented a program on the Route 66 Mural Project April 10 to 18 members of the Lebanon PEO meeting at the First Christian Church. Jones and Sosniecki are available to present the 45-min…
Paul Whitehill, owner of Whitehill Enterprises of Joplin, the mural contractor, speaks at the unveiling ceremony Feb. 18 for the first Route 66 mural.
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