"Throwed Rolls and Spooky Houses"

Tuesday, Oct 31, 2017, Sheila and I took a day off and went on a little adventure.  Sheila had always wanted to eat at Lambert's Restaurant near Springfield, Missouri.  We decided to drive up, have a late lunch and then spend the evening in a B&B in Carthage.  Here are some of our snapshots.

The first picture is of Sheila doing a little happy dance that she had FINALLY gotten me to take her to Lamberts.

I am obviously not as thrilled at the notion

of having a college kid throw bread at me.

















This is the B&B where we stayed in Carthage.  Beautiful old place.  A lot of period furniture.

We drove back on historic Route 66.  Sheila and I have driven the entire length of it in Oklahoma in pieces, just never in one trip. I drove the entire length of it in the 1960's.  From Tulsa to Chicago in one stint and then from California to Tulsa in another.

Every railroad town had one of these places, the infamous railroad kitty palace.  They were always across the tracks from the polite part of town.  This one happened to be right square on old Route 66.  An amazing number of them have survived as restaurants and museums. 

This is a preserved section of the old road in Southeastern Kansas.  It looked about like this in the early and mid 1950's.