6 Oklahoma – Route 66

Oklahoma Sooner State Borderlanders & Native America

Values – Borderlanders
    1. War-ravaged borderland perseverance
    2. Personal sovereignty
    3. Individual liberty
    4. Intensely suspicious of aristocrats
    5. Intensely suspicious of social engineers
Values – American Indians

(researchgate.net)

    1. Community (take care of others) – including humility
    2. Cooperation – including giving indirect criticism
    3. Generosity and sharing – including patience
    4. Respect for elders – including listening to learn
    5. Live in harmony with nature and all things – including time is relative
Allen’s Fillin’ Station, Commerce
Allen’s Fillin’ Station, Commerce
6.1 Picher & Commerce – Quapaw Nation
    • Quapaw
      1. Quapaw Nation
      2. Quapaw Tribal Museum
    • Picher
      1. Tar Creek Superfund site due to lead poisoning
      2. Picher Gorillas Statue
    • Commerce
      1. Allen’s Fillin’ Station
      2. Dairy King
      3. Mickey Mantle Boyhood Home
      4. Mickey Mantle Memorial Statue
Sidewalk Route 66, Miami
Sidewalk Route 66, Miami
6.2 Miami – Miami Tribe, Peoria Nation, & Ottawa Tribe
    1. Miami Tribe
    2. Peoria Nation
    3. Ottawa Tribe
    4. Waylans Kuku
    5. Coleman Theater
    6. Route 66 Vintage Iron
    7. Route 66 Gateway Sign
    8. Sidewalk Route 66
Blue Whale of Catoosa
Blue Whale of Catoosa
6.3 Afton-Catoosa – Cherokee Nation
    1. Cherokee Nation
    2. Afton – Will Rogers Highway Marker & Afton Station Packard Museum
    3. Todd – McDougal Filling Station
    4. Vinita – Clanton’s Cafe & Western Motel
    5. Chelsea – Chelsea Motel & First Oil Well In Oklahoma
    6. Foyil – World’s Largest Totem Pole & Andy Payne Memorial Statue
    7. Claremore – J.M. Davis Arms Historical Museum & Will Rogers Memorial
    8. Catoosa – Blue Whale & Twin Bridges over Verdigris River
Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
6.4 Tulsa (Green Country) – Muscogee (Creek) Nation
    1. Muscogee (Creek) Nation: Creek Nation Council Oak Park
    2. Greenwood District: Black Wall Street (1921 Tulsa Race Massacre)
    3. Blue Dome District: Blue Dome Building (1924 filling station)
    4. Deco District: Philcade Building (DECOPOLIS Tulsa Art Deco Museum)
    5. Tulsa Arts District: Woody Guthrie Center & Guthrie Green
    6. Meadow Gold District: Meadow Gold Sign
    7. Tulsa East Side: Hank’s Hamburgers
    8. Tulsa West Side-Sapulpa-Bristow: Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza (East Meets West sculpture)

6.5 Stroud-Acadia
    • Stroud (Lincoln County)
      1. Rock Cafe & Skyliner Motel
      2. Neon on Main
    • Chandler
      1. Chandler Phillips 66 Station
      2. Museum of Pioneer History
    • Warwick
      1. Seaba Filling Station
    • Luther (Eastern Oklahoma County)
      1. Threatt Filling Station Route 66 (Green Book)
    • Acadia
      1. The Round Barn
      2. Pops 66
Oklahoma State Capitol
Oklahoma State Capitol
6.6 Oklahoma City
    1. State Capitol
    2. National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
    3. Oklahoma City National Memorial
    4. Gold Dome & Milk Bottle Grocery
    5. Tower Theatre & The Pump Bar
    6. Uptown Old Phillips 66 Station & Mutts Amazing Hot Dogs
    7. Phillips Gull Wing Station & Western Trail Trading Post
    8. Former Sinclair Filling Station & Tucker’s Onion Burgers
Red Rock Canyon State Park
Red Rock Canyon State Park (now Red Rock Canyon Adventure Park)
6.7 El Reno & Hinton– Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
    1. Yukon – Garth Brook’s hometown & Express Clydesdales
    2. El Reno – Twisters movie setting & Sid’s Diner
    3. Fort Reno & Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
    4. Calumet – Cherokee Trading Post
    5. Geary – Bridgeport Hill Service Station
    6. Hinton
      • Red Rock Canyon State Park (now Red Rock Canyon Adventure Park)
      • Wichita Tribe, Caddo Nation, & Delaware Nation
    7. Hydro – Lucille’s Service Station
    8. Weatherford “Space City” – Stafford Air & Space Museum
Sandhills Curiosity Shop
Sandhills Curiosity Shop
6.8 Clinton & Elk City – Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
    1. Clinton – Oklahoma Route 66 Museum
    2. Foss – Kobel’s Place Gas Station (abandoned)
    3. Canute – Washita Motel Sign & Cotton Boll Hotel Sign
    4. Elk City
      • Ackley Park Wooden Carousel
      • National Route 66 Museum and Transportation Museum
    5. Sayre
      • Beckham County Court House
      • Sayre Rock Island Depot and Shortgrass Country Museum
    6. Black Kettle National Grassland
    7. Erick – Sandhills Curiosity Shop
    8. Texola – Tumbleweed Grill

Next state going west: Texas portion of old Route 66

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