Route 66 has provided much of the wallpaper to our lives. Music and food. Art and architecture. Grapes and wrath. This year the Mother Road celebrates her 100th birthday. She’s aged in fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, but we … Read More
History in the Shadow of Six Flags
The end of prohibition killed the Smith brothers’ bootleg business. No matter. They opened two legal taverns, one in Eureka, one in Fenton. And when Route 66 came through Pacific, Missouri, in 1935 they opened the Red Cedar Inn. The … Read More