Route 66 Museum in Pontiac

 Inside the first floor of the museum. Many main streets in Illinois were already connected by the Pontiac Trail when Cyrus Avery, an Oklahoma businessman and entrepeneur, envisioned a road stretching diagonally across the country between Lake Michigan and the Pacific Ocean, connecting hundreds of rural towns throughout the country and providing many small communities access to a national highway system.

 Outside of the museum and part of the tour (we did not go inside), this bus was owned by the man who also owned the VW camper inside the museum, Bob Waldmire. It had solar panels and he harvested rainwater.

The second floor of the museum was devoted to life in the 1940s.

 The kitchen

I have a feeling many dining rooms did not look like this one!

I had some of the paper dolls in the upper lefthand corner. I guess I still do have them, up in the attic with all the rest of my paper dolls!

Cary and I both had our cameras, but were so overwhelmed with everything that we didn't get as many pictures as we thought we did. Lots of memories though.