Our short 10 mile drive north of Lincoln on old Route 66 brought us directly onto the main street of town. We parked in front of the local museum and read through our itinerary of the things we wanted to do in town.
We were hoping our touring luck would be better than yesterday. Funks Grove Sirup (their spelling) - closed for the season. David Davis Mansion - closed. We couldn't even get to a freeway Rest Stop display of Route 66 because the rest stop was closed. We laughed about it and moved forward.
As we were sitting there, a pickup truck parks in front of Memories at the end of the block. I was just reading on their Facebook page last night that they no longer had regular hours after their help went back to school. They would open sporadically.
4 older adults get out of the truck and one of them pulls KEYS out of his pocket as he heads for the Memories store. I told Karen that we should abandon the itinerary and get down to Memories right away.
We walked into the museum and asked if it was OK if we entered. They said sure, that we were lucky because the owner was just showing some friends from Amarillo the museum. Lucky indeed.
What a fun place this was. We looked around and talked with both the owners and their friends. It was a collection of stuff that the owners collected because they liked it. They belonged to a car club and met their friends while traveling on Route 66.
Across the street was a "giant". Bunyon's Statue was moved from a hot dog stand near Chicago (Cicero) in 2003 after the Bunyon Hot Dog owner retired and they wanted to find a loving place for it on Route 66.
There was a contest in town to take a Route 66 shield and be creative.
The library was in this wonderful octagonal building with a beautiful non-working clock tower out front.
This small town even had a museum devoted to old video games!
We continued our walk around town and went over to the Hawes Grain Elevator. It was restored. And it was locked. So we read the plaques that were outside.
...and along comes a guy in a pickup truck and asks if we would like to go inside and see how it works. Well, yeah!
We learned how a grain elevator works and then went over to this cute little eatery in town, Palms Grill Cafe.
They had this old National Cash Register on the counter, but when I gave them a credit card out came the iPad to receive my payment!
We were getting ready to leave and I casually asked if the museum next door was ever open. The waitress said SHE could let us in! What! Score!
The museum had lots of stuff on Lincoln, the history of the local high school that ended in the 1980's, and a lot of history about the town.
We had a great time in Atlanta and really appreciate all of the nice people that opened doors for us today.
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