Best of Route 66 ROLLA MISSOURI Then & Now, narrated walking and driving tour, Deadman's Curve

[@eddiebrady6351]

Nice tour! Thanks!

[@battlefoxx]

Hey, thanks. This is a big town, and I missed some cools sites like the old drive in theater (torn down when they put in the freeway, but the lot is still visible)

[@FA-uf7vr]

Nice tour. I used to live at 1300 North Oak St back in the early 1990s. I did my first degree at UMR. This sure brings back memories. I haven't got a chance to visit the place yet eversince I went back to my country Malaysia.

[@d.g.n9392]

I grew up in Rolla, a child in the late 1950’s-1960’s-1970’s. So much of the downtown is gone, many buildings no longer there. adjacent to the Phelps County Bank on the parking lot had two story brick buildings, a Ben Franklin 5&10 store, several offices and retail clothing stores, one was Bishop’s Clothing. When I was young, a local country western singer named Austin Wood , sat in front of the Ben Franklin Store and played his guitar and sang. Kind of a regular fixture on Saturdays. At 6th and Pine street was Grant’s Grocery Store. At 7th and Pine there was a small grocery store called Northside Grocery. So, so many of the retailers went out after the bigger discount stores opened. Another building and restaurant about a couple hundred yards from the Mule Trading Post, was Toky’s BBQ. Some of the best BBQ ribs. After I’ve moved away in the 1980’s, so many changes, so much gone. The old wood bridge, all the school buses traveled over the bridge, mornings and afternoons. Because it was the only bridge over the railroad. Even though there were numerous railroad crossings, the school buses used that bridge, so’s to not cross the street railroad tracks. In the late 1970’s, a new overpass was built to take 10th street over the railroad. In the area of the university, most of the original residential homes are gone, made way for apartments , university buildings, parking lots.

[@battlefoxx]

They even had the old Drive In Movie Theater down by the new car shops, missed that piece in my tour. You can "smell" the taste of the old days, but certainly looks like it lost some of its 1930s-ish charm. Still, good to visit.

[@d.g.n9392]

@@battlefoxx I wanted to add. The Edwin Long Hotel had a coffee shop and served food. When I was very young, my dad would go to the hotel on Sunday morning to buy a Sunday newspaper, all the other stores were closed on Sunday.

[@d.g.n9392]

We went to the drive in movie many times.

[@CallMeOpia]

rolla missoura looks awesome. lotsa history

[@battlefoxx]

Nice place, tons of Route 66 stuff if you stay an extra day and do the homework. The coolest thing is figuring out the pathway of the original road before it got straightened out. Cool relics.

[@valeriepickens2533]

Hate to be the one to correct you but Butch Cassidy never even saw Missouri. He was born and raised by a Mormon family ,south of Provo Utah. His crime wave happened in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Even when him and Sundance went to New York, they went by steam boat because Sundance knew where the casinos in New Orleans were. Jesse James ( on the other hand might have seen the inside of that jailhouse. However, Missouri was a pro-south confederate state,...so probably not.

[@battlefoxx]

Thanks, I knew that already, but just rolled off my tongue. Sundance Kid is up in Sundance Wyoming...little statue of him in the park around the city jail. It was just an example of the security of the jail. Thanks for watching.

[@cindyheinz3712]

It is pronounced "Rah-la" in Missouri.

[@battlefoxx]

thanks, I bounce around a little from "rah-lah" to "roe-lah", but tried real hard. I hope you like the video.