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McLean, TX - Route 66 Museum

Route 66 & Devil’s Rope Museum
The Route 66 museum divides the spaces with the Barbed Wire Museum in McLean. In the Route 66 part everything is exhibited what possible concerns the route 66. In the Barbed Wire Museum you can learn everything about the Devil’s Rope, as the Indians called the barbed wire, he built them their riding and hunting trails.
Address: 100 Kingsley Street, McLean, OK

McLean, TX - Burma Shave

McLean – Burma Shave Signs
In McLean at the entrance there is a park, along which are some of the Burma-Shave signs, advertising years ago a shaving cream, the signs have became trademark along Route 66.
Address: Route 66, McLean, TX

Groom – Britten’s Truck Stop / Tower Restaurant
At the interstate exit in Groom can be found in the middle of a cornfield this leaning water tower. Ralph Britten bought the water tower as advertising for his restaurant and truckstop. This is so crooked, because Britten had a bet going that the tower would not hold if he set it up so crooked. The tower holds now for some years.
Address: I-40 Frontage Road, Groom, TX

Groom, Texas - Giant Cross

Groom – Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Ministries
More than 100 welders were needed to build the giant cross. It juts above the flat landscape in Texas.
Website
Address: BB Road, Groom, TX

Route 66 – Peace Art
Unfortunately I could not find out so far anything about this project.
Address: Old Route 66, TX

Cadillac Ranch
The Cadillac Ranch is an art installation by the artist group “Ant Farm” from San Francisco. Since 1947 there is this art on the edge of the road.
1974, buried 10 Cadillacs from the years 1948 to 1963 in a field near Amarillo in a row and with the front half of the floor, the artist group. The artist group invites interested parties to give these Cadillacs always a different look. Therefore, they are sprayed with spray cans of visitors and thus change almost daily appearance.
On special occasions, the Cadillacs are painted by the artists themselves in a special color; for example, all Cadillacs were painted black on the death of Doug Michels.
In 1997, the Cadillac Ranch was moved because the city Amarillo had always continued to spread.
Address: I-40-Frontage Road (Ausfahrt Hope Road), Amarillo, TX

Adrian – Route 66 Midpoint
1139 miles (1833km) far away from Chicago and 1139 miles away from Los Angeles is Adrian, the center of the Old Route 66 at this point was bulit a sign, and it is there also the Midpoint Café and Gift Shop.
Address: I-40 Frontage Road, Adrian, TX