As they feasted on pastries and coffee courtesy of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society, Route 66 enthusiasts from as far away as Chippewa Falls, Wis., gathered Sunday morning in Boswell Park, where they heard greetings from Mayor Jared Carr and learned about projects by the city and …
UPDATED SATURDAY NIGHT: More than 75 Route 66 enthusiasts from seven states as far away as Wisconsin and Texas arrived Saturday afternoon in Laclede County during Day 2 of the three-day Route 66 Association of Missouri Motor Tour.
More Route 66 features are planned for Route 66-themed Boswell Park, President Bruce Owen told the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board at its monthly meeting Tuesday.
Jessica Fox was appointed to the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board Tuesday to fill the seat vacated this summer by Nicole McGinnis, who moved to Iowa.
The Route 66 murals in Boswell Park have become a tourism draw for Lebanon, the director of Lebanon Parks and Recreation told the Lebanon Rotary Club today.
Mark your calendar: The 2021 Lebanon Route 66 Festival again will be on Father’s Day weekend and again will be a two-day event, the festival committee decided at its first planning meeting Tuesday.
The Route 66 Motor Tour is coming to Lebanon, and the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society plans to roll out the red carpet.
The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board heard plenty of good news and one piece of sad news at its monthly meeting Tuesday.
Vicki Hatcher and her husband always had wanted to drive Route 66.
Fifty-two yard sales, many with multiple sellers, are set for the second annual 100-mile Route 66 Yard Sale this Friday and Saturday in Pulaski, Laclede and Webster counties.
If the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge is torn down, a small piece of the historic bridge could be preserved in Lebanon’s Route 66-themed Boswell Park, the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board learned Tuesday at its monthly meeting.
They came from Utah. They came from Minnesota. They came from Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Illinois.
Lebanon’s newest Route 66 attraction is for lovers.
The Lebanon Route 66 Festival on June 20 at Boswell Park will give area residents and the Missouri Route 66 community a chance to enjoy music, food and classic cars in the fresh outdoors after being cooped up indoors for months during the peak of the pandemic.
Lebanon’s Route 66 Festival on June 20 should benefit from similar events having been canceled, the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board agreed at its monthly meeting Tuesday.
The second annual three-county Route 66 Yard Sale will be held again this year with the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society as the sponsor in Laclede County, the Route 66 Society’s board agreed Tuesday.
Laclede County’s newest Route 66-themed attraction will be blessed with a strong Route 66 heritage.
Discussions about the Route 66 Association of Missouri assuming ownership of the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge continued until last Thursday “and are currently at an impasse,” the Historic Preservation manager of the Missouri Department of Transportation wrote in a letter to the director o…
The Missouri Department of Transportation has called off – at least for now – plans to let bids Friday to demolish the century-old Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge at Hazelgreen. A bidding delay is seen as a victory for those who have been trying to save the bridge since MoDOT closed it in D…
Lebanon’s first two Route 66 banners are up, and another 30 will line Route 66 before the Lebanon Route 66 Festival on June 20, Nicole McGinnis, the city’s tourism director, told the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board Tuesday.
The 2020 Lebanon Route 66 Festival will go on as scheduled June 20 at Route 66-themed Boswell Park.
Bill Wheeler, first president of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society, was remembered in a tribute at the April 30 Lebanon Rotary Club meeting by Wheeler’s longtime friend Mike Edwards, manager of KJEL radio.
Bill Wheeler, whose vision for Route 66 included organizing the first Lebanon Route 66 Festival and the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society, died Friday, April 17, 2020, after a long illness. He was 80.
Here's a preview of the 2020 Laclede County Route 66 Guide and Map, a joint project of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society and The Laclede County Record. With the guide, you can travel 36 miles of Route 66 from one end of Laclede County to the other, identifying mile-by-mile nearly 1…
Talks continue between the Route 66 Association of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Transportation about the association assuming ownership of the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge at Hazelgreen.
Dawson Hollow, a popular Lebanon-based band composed of five siblings, will headline the 2020 Lebanon Route 66 Festival.
Laclede County’s Gasconade River Bridge might be saved after all – with the Route 66 Association of Missouri as its new owner.
Installing imitation neon tubing at the Underpass Café and a new security system at the Camp Joy cabin are the first projects the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society will undertake after accepting a detailed plan from its Project Priorities Committee.
The Lebanon Route 66 Museum has acquired a Victorian bed set and a cigar showcase that once were part of the Nelson Hotel, curator Mark Spangler told the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society at Saturday’s annual membership meeting.
Bruce Owen, a descendant of two famous families in Lebanon’s Route 66 history, was elected president of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society at Saturday’s annual membership meeting.
Helen Massey remembers the trucker, a regular customer, who ordered rare hamburgers at the Underpass Café and complained every time she served one. “I couldn’t get them rare enough for him,” she says with laugh. She finally outsmarted him.
A presentation by Route 66 enthusiast “Movin’ Mark” Norman and the unveiling of an informational sign at the former Underpass Cafe will highlight the annual membership meeting of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society.
April 20, 2020, is the “drop-dead date” for supporters of the Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge to find someone to assume ownership of the internationally known landmark before plans to demolish it are finalized.
See how nicely Lebanon's Route 66 attractions are presented in this episode of the television show "Missouri Life Magazine." This is the second of a two-part episode about Route 66 in Missouri, and the first 6:30 is devoted to Lebanon. You'll see interior scenes from the Manor House Inn, an …
The city of Lebanon’s Tourism and Parks and Recreation departments will assume more of the responsibilities of the Lebanon Route 66 Festival in 2020.
The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society reviewed three plans Tuesday for reroofing the former Twin Oaks gas station on Route 66 west of Phillipsburg and hopes to move forward with one of them by spring.
“Movin’ Mark” Norman, whose enthusiasm for Route 66 has made him a popular figure along The Mother Road the past year, will be the featured speaker when the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society holds its annual membership meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Lebanon-Laclede County…
The front door is locked and the iconic neon sign is dark. But don’t worry.
Five members of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society met Saturday with the owner of the former Twin Oaks property on Route 66 west of Phillipsburg to discuss how to save one or possibly two of the surviving buildings from further deterioration.
The late Glenn Wrinkle Sr., a Route 66 icon in Lebanon as well as throughout the nation, was honored by his hometown Thursday night with a Lebanon Community Achievement Award.
As the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society wraps up two restoration projects, its board began discussing a potential new one at Tuesday’s monthly meeting.
The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society received a $500 preservation grant Saturday from the Route 66 Association of Missouri for its efforts to restore the last remaining Camp Joy cabin in Lebanon and the exterior of the Underpass Cafe in Phillipsburg.
Informational signs will be erected at the Camp Joy cabin and the Underpass Cafe – both restored by the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society this year -- so tourists are aware of their role in Route 66 history.
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 …
Promotion of Route 66 in Laclede County continues as the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board heard updates Tuesday on plans for banners along Route 66 in Lebanon and for painting lettering on the former Underpass Cafe at Phillipsburg.
New metal benches honoring the Lehman family, owners of Lebanon’s Munger Moss Motel for 48 years, were installed Wednesday outside the Camp Joy cabin in Boswell Park and at the motel.
Tourism in Laclede County is increasing at a faster rate according to two reports the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board heard Tuesday.
The three-county Route 66 Yard Sale will be held again next year if all the other sponsoring organizations and media from this year agree to participate, the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society agreed Tuesday at its monthly board meeting.
The electronic signs in the eastbound lane of Route 66 approaching Hazelgreen, Missouri, no longer alert drivers that the Gasconade River Bridge is closed.
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