{"id":957,"date":"2011-07-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=957"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:59:23","slug":"route-66-museum-clinton-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Route 66 Museum &#8211; Clinton, OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5899527978\/\" title=\"IMG_5736 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5736\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5899527978_0f1dbf0d10-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SuperPizzaBoy took some time off from a family reunion last weekend to go check out the <span style=\"color: red;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/route%2066%20museum%20clinton%20ok\">Route 66 Museum<\/a> <\/b><\/span>in Clinton, OK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5899506346\/\" title=\"IMG_5718 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5718\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5899506346_29635c2c7a-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The museum is very nice and is very reasonably priced. They have lots and lots of exhibits concerning everything from early day construction to vehicles used during the road&#8217;s heyday to the motels and restaurants that lined the highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898944579\/\" title=\"IMG_5720 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5720\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898944579_037dd909d2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These type of &#8220;pop&#8221; machines were my favorite. They seemed like they kept the sodas the coolest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898949063\/\" title=\"IMG_5723 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5723\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898949063_010fbe0a5c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above was a little before my time. The company though, &#8220;Lee Way Motor Freight&#8221; was a major employer in Oklahoma City for a long time until they went out of business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898950261\/\" title=\"IMG_5724 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5724\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898950261_2a04277f1a-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPB loved the pay phone although he couldn&#8217;t figure out why it was needed. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t people just use their cell phones?&#8221; When I told him that cell phones didn&#8217;t exist back then then, &#8220;What did they do when their cars broke down?&#8221; I told him that was always a challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898937195\/\" title=\"IMG_5715 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5715\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898937195_0bd9d6240c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember how the tourist traps tried to lure the rube&#8217;s in?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5899495476\/\" title=\"IMG_5711 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5711\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5899495476_b12972a882-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPB was a little leery of this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898935747\/\" title=\"IMG_5714 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5714\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898935747_f0806a92bc-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to check it out for yourself!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898957235\/\" title=\"IMG_5730 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5730\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898957235_783ccb0c92-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have a hippie van. Remember hippies? I do. My mother was scandalized, I was jealous. Except when they were broken down. My Dad helped them out sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the museum they have a small theater that plays several short films on the history and culture of Route 66. They were interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5898968895\/\" title=\"IMG_5740 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5740\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5898968895_abcf404daa-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know what separates a great museum from just a good museum?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5899534038\/\" title=\"IMG_5741 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5741\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/5899534038_5bf0fbf7d5-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great museum has their own geocache. That&#8217;s the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.route66.org\/index2.html\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>Route 66 Museum<\/b><\/span><\/a>. It&#8217;s lots of fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/showyourworld.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\"><b>My World<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SuperPizzaBoy took some time off from a family reunion last weekend to go check out the Route 66 Museum in Clinton, OK. The museum is very nice and is very reasonably priced. They have lots and lots of exhibits concerning everything from early day construction to vehicles used during the road&#8217;s heyday to the motels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums","category-my-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}