California Route 66 Museum
The California Route 66 Museum in Victorville ( CA ) is the history of Route 66 dedicated. The museum is located in the historic part of town in a building at 16825 D Street that previously housed a grocer and before that the Red Rooster Café . The Red Rooster was the location for the Richard Fleischer film The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond .
The museum opened on November 11, 1995 and is operated by the Old Town Victorville Heritage Preservation . Thousands of photos and objects related to the history of Route 66 are shown in three exhibition rooms over an area of 460 square meters . Museum visitors can have their picture taken at a diner table from the 1950s, in a VW bus from the hippie era, a Ford Model T from 1917 or a historic outhouse. The museum displays the first "End-of-the-Trails" sign from Santa Monica .
In 1996 the museum took over exhibits from Hula Ville , a sculpture park formerly west of Victorville with so-called bottle cactus and collected advertising signs from service providers along the former Route 66 . The collection put on by Miles Mahan from the mid-1950s was partially moved to the museum after his death. The collection of billboards, mostly hand-painted from wooden boards and attributed to folk art , is now presented as Hula Ville - Twentieth Century Folk Art . The museum is looked after by volunteers and is financed through donations and the sale of souvenirs.
Individual references and sources
- ↑ Russel A. Olsen, The Complete Route 66 Lost & Found , ISBN 978-1-61060-0-132 , Voyageur Press, 2008, p. 160 (in English)
- ↑ Jamie Jensen, Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways , ISBN 978-1-61238-9-028 (in English)
- ↑ Drew Knowles, Route 66 Quick Reference Encyclopedia , ISBN 978-1-59580-9-926 , Santa Monica Press, 2008 (in English)
Web links
- Museum website (in English)
- Video on YouTube : Route 66 Museum In Victorville California Part 1 , Best Syndication (in English)
Coordinates: 34 ° 32 ′ 14 " N , 117 ° 17 ′ 39" W.