New miniature of the Bagdad Cafe
Route 66 News
July 29, 2013
New miniature of the Bagdad Cafe
Posted by Ron Warnick in Art, Museums, Restaurants.
Take a close look at the above photos. Can you tell the real Bagdad Cafe near Newberry Springs, Calif., and the miniature replica?
The second photo is the real McCoy.
Willem Bor of the Netherlands has made amazingly detailed miniatures of Route 66 landmarks. The latest was the Bagdad Cafe, made famous by the European film of the same name.
Bor wrote in an email:
My wife Monique and I delivered it (after some communication problems) in person on the 4 of July to Sharon Foster of the Route 66 Museum (in Victorville). There were some problems with the delivery but with the help of some friends it all turns out well. Special thanks to Dries Bessels, Jim Hinckly, Ian Arthur Charles Bowen and Dan Rice.
We first made a picture in the Mojave Desert, and then driven to the Bagdad Cafe.
We show the model to the staff of the Bagdad Cafe, they were very surprised and liked all the details I made! They even want to buy the model, but we don’t sell, only donate. And of course it was promised to the Museum in Victorville.
July 29, 2013
New miniature of the Bagdad Cafe
Posted by Ron Warnick in Art, Museums, Restaurants.
Take a close look at the above photos. Can you tell the real Bagdad Cafe near Newberry Springs, Calif., and the miniature replica?
The second photo is the real McCoy.
Willem Bor of the Netherlands has made amazingly detailed miniatures of Route 66 landmarks. The latest was the Bagdad Cafe, made famous by the European film of the same name.
Bor wrote in an email:
My wife Monique and I delivered it (after some communication problems) in person on the 4 of July to Sharon Foster of the Route 66 Museum (in Victorville). There were some problems with the delivery but with the help of some friends it all turns out well. Special thanks to Dries Bessels, Jim Hinckly, Ian Arthur Charles Bowen and Dan Rice.
We first made a picture in the Mojave Desert, and then driven to the Bagdad Cafe.
We show the model to the staff of the Bagdad Cafe, they were very surprised and liked all the details I made! They even want to buy the model, but we don’t sell, only donate. And of course it was promised to the Museum in Victorville.
You can see the stir and curiosity with the miniature from the restaurant’s staff!
(Photos courtesy of Willem Bor and StuRap, via Flickr)
Where can you find my models!!
I’m very proud that some of my models found a new home in museums in the USA. You can find them in Missouri, Illinois and California.
Route 66 Museum Lebanon
Location:
915 S. Jefferson Ave.
Lebanon, MO 65536
Housed inside the large Lebanon-Laclede County Library, which is inside an old K-Mart. I-44 exit 129. Drive west on Jefferson Ave for a quarter-mile. The library will be on the left, in a shopping center. Look for the red library sign.
Website
Hours:
Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Pontiac Oakland Automobile Museum
Location:
205 N. Mill Street
Pontiac, IL 61764
The Pontiac-Oakland Museum is located a short distance off I-55 in downtown Pontiac, Illinois.
Website
Hours:
Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ; Sat.-Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Call for winter hours
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Route 66 Museum Victorville
Location:
16825 D Street
Victorville, CA 92395
The California Route 66 Museum is located on D Street, between Fifth Street and Sixth Street, in the heart of Old Town.
Website
Hours:
Mon., Thu., Fri., Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday by appointment
ROLLNSTEF ART ROUTE 66
"Do not dream our lives, living our dreams"
" - And if we went for a drive Photographic Road Trip of the most iconic U.S. highway to create a book with unique pictures !!!! "Stéphane photographer in the middle of the Kustom Kulture under the name "ROLLNSTEF". Passionate United States and more specifically the years pre-65's.
I was
developing a personal technique in my photographic work,
mixing photography, painting and Kustom Kulture.
If you like Route 66 , if you like my photos, I try to finance a road trip 66 and then make a great book. Put 10/20/50 dollars or euros in this great project .Your contribution will be rewarded with gifts "ROUTE 66": Photos, Posters, Etc. ... and of course the book "ROLLNSTEF ART ROUTE 66".My goal is to publish a limited edition book. To do this I need to raise at least 6,000 EUR. The more money I raise the nicer the book can be .You can donate with your typical credit cards (Visa and Mastercard) or with PayPal account. So it is so easy for everyone :-) The Perks you get for your contribution are on the right side (6 grey rectangles). The site of Project ROUTE 66 :
http://igg.me/at/Rollnstef-Route-66/x/3199951
I want to pay tribute to the MOTHER ROAD !!!
If you like Route 66 , if you like my photos, I try to finance a road trip 66 and then make a great book. Put 10/20/50 dollars or euros in this great project .Your contribution will be rewarded with gifts "ROUTE 66": Photos, Posters, Etc. ... and of course the book "ROLLNSTEF ART ROUTE 66".My goal is to publish a limited edition book. To do this I need to raise at least 6,000 EUR. The more money I raise the nicer the book can be .You can donate with your typical credit cards (Visa and Mastercard) or with PayPal account. So it is so easy for everyone :-) The Perks you get for your contribution are on the right side (6 grey rectangles). The site of Project ROUTE 66 :
http://igg.me/at/Rollnstef-Route-66/x/3199951
I want to pay tribute to the MOTHER ROAD !!!
Your contribution will make the difference !!!!!!! THANKS !!!!!!!!!!
ROLLNSTEF KUSTOM ART PICS .The Mill, Lincoln IL
The Mill in Lincoln opened in 1929 under the name of the Blue Mill, on Stringer Avenue. It’s proprietor was Paul Coddington, who would serve patrons grilled sandwiches at any hour of the day or night.
A Dutch themed building with blue trim, it featured a revolving windmill and waitresses dressed in blue with white aprons.
In 1945, Albert and Blossom Huffman purchased the building, added a barroom and dance hall, and then painted the building barn red. Over the years, the restaurant became famous for it’s fried schnitzel, originally made of veal, and later of pork.
By the mid 1980’s the Mill had lost most of the Dutch themed interior, and was becoming a museum of rather strange objects, including a mechanical leg protruding from a hole in the ceiling.
Source: Waymarking.com
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Willem Bor’s latest Route 66 miniatures
Route 66 News
February 27, 2013
Willem Bor’s latest Route 66 miniatures
Posted by Ron Warnick in Art, Gas stations, Museums, Restaurants.
Netherlands resident Willem Bor, who’s built detailed replicas of Route 66 landmarks in miniature, delivered four more models in recent months.
The miniatures were:
The now-closed Diamonds Restaurant in Villa Ridge, Mo.
Riviera Roadhouse in Gardner, Ill., which was destroyed by a fire in 2010.
Gay Parita station in Paris Springs, Mo.
Bor and his wife managed to personally deliver the models from Europe to America in one piece, thanks to a lot of bubble wrap. Those three models are in the Route 66 Museum in Lebanon, Mo.
Just recently, Bor also mailed by UPS a model of the Odell Station in Odell, Ill., to the Pontiac Oakland Automobile Museum in Pontiac, Ill. The model isn’t on display yet in the museum, but should be by April.
(Photos courtesy Willem Bor)
February 27, 2013
Willem Bor’s latest Route 66 miniatures
Posted by Ron Warnick in Art, Gas stations, Museums, Restaurants.
Netherlands resident Willem Bor, who’s built detailed replicas of Route 66 landmarks in miniature, delivered four more models in recent months.
The miniatures were:
The now-closed Diamonds Restaurant in Villa Ridge, Mo.
Riviera Roadhouse in Gardner, Ill., which was destroyed by a fire in 2010.
Gay Parita station in Paris Springs, Mo.
Bor and his wife managed to personally deliver the models from Europe to America in one piece, thanks to a lot of bubble wrap. Those three models are in the Route 66 Museum in Lebanon, Mo.
Just recently, Bor also mailed by UPS a model of the Odell Station in Odell, Ill., to the Pontiac Oakland Automobile Museum in Pontiac, Ill. The model isn’t on display yet in the museum, but should be by April.
(Photos courtesy Willem Bor)
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In, Seligman Arizona
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In is a historic eatery and roadside attraction located along former Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona USA. The drive-in was built in 1953 by local resident Juan Delgadillo (May 17, 1916 - June 2, 2004). Delgadillo was working on an extremely limited budget, so he built the restaurant mostly from scrap lumber obtained from the nearby Santa Fe Railroad yard. To bring attention to the restaurant, Delgadillo sliced the roof off of a 1936 Chevrolet hardtop, adorned the automobile with paint, horns and various automotive emblems and even an artificial Christmas tree in the rear of the car.
Delgadillo's flair for showmanship extended to his menu, which still features such choices as a "cheeseburger with cheese" and "dead chicken." His sense of humor is evident in "Juan's Garden" at the rear of the property with its collection of old automobiles and kitsch in general; the humorous approach extends to the building itself. Hand-painted signs in the parking area warn drivers that they are parking at their own risk. A neon sign in the window informs patrons, "Sorry, we're open." The door which leads to the counter has two knobs, one on the right and one on the left. The knob on the right is a dummy; the one on the left actually opens the door. Delgadillo would continue his humorous approach by bantering with his patrons over their choices of food, asking, for example, if they wanted cheese on their cheeseburgers.
While researching the history of Route 66 for the 2006 Disney/Pixar motion picture Cars, John Lasseter met Delgadillo's brother, Seligman barber and Route 66 historian, Angel Delgadillo, who told him how traffic through the town virtually disappeared on the day that nearby Interstate 40 opened. Both brothers are acknowledged in the film's credits. The restaurant is located within the Seligman Commercial Historic District, and is cited as one of the town's flamboyant examples of roadside architecture. Since Delgadillo's death in 2004, the Snow Cap has been run by his daughter Cecilia and son John, all whom work the counter in the same playful manner. The walls around the counter area itself are covered with business cards from all over the world.
Author Michael Wallis covers the history of the Snow Cap in his book, Route 66: The Mother Road. On a January 11, 2012 episode of the History Channel's "American Restoration" show, Angel asked the host to restore his nephews' old Wurlitzer jukebox from the 1950s to full working order, which he did.
Source: Wikipedia
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Bagdad Café, Newberry Springs CA
I decided to make a scale model of the Bagdad Café when it gets clear that our vacation in 2013 brings us to California. We drove the Route 66 in California but we missed some parts. And there are a lot of National and State Parks we want to visit, like Death Valley National Park, Yosemite National Park but also places like San Francisco and the best preserved ghost town in California, Bodie.
But something more about the Bagdad Café. This is not the original Bagdad Café, the actual one that existed in the 1960s when US Route 66 ran through town, was in the town of Bagdad. It included a café, a gasoline station, cabins for rent and an airstrip. When Interstate 40 opened and bypasses two-lane Route 66, commerce collapsed and the businesses that were once Bagdad, all closed and eventually the town was completely razed. It’s marked today by a clearing on the north side of old Route 66 and a single tree!
The scale model I made, was once known as the Sidewinder Café in Newberry Springs, California, 50 miles west of the original site of Bagdad on old U.S. 66. The Bagdad Café was made famous by the movie of the same name, that is shot in 1987. The film is a comedy set in a remote truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert. It centers around two women who have recently separated from their husbands, and the blossoming friendship which ensues.
I like to thank Nick Gerlich and Paul Chassey for the pictures they made for me of the Bagdad Café, that was a great help!!!
The Dairy King, Commerce Oklahoma
One of my latest projects is the Diary King, This is a snack shop housed in an old historic Marathon Station in Commerce, Oklahoma. We visited this place in June 2012.
Charles Duboise and his mother, the owners of the Dairy King, told us a lot about the history of the Dairy King, the Route 66 and some other places in Commerce. Charles showed us a picture of the building when it still was a Marathon Station and told us he want to place some gas pumps outside and some other stuff so people can see how it was. They don’t want to become a Marathon Station again because they have a business now as a snack shop.
And he has a brand new business also, making “Route 66 Cookies”. He’s trade marking the name and the special cookie molds which he designed and manufactured himself. He told us he shipped the cookies to several countries in Europe. The cookies are very neat and are available in plain sugar and chocolate chip and they are delicious!!
But, talking to him and his mother and looking around, I knew that this is a building I’m going to make a scale model of. And I did, it’s finished already and now I’m thinking about a new project……
Charles Duboise and his mother, the owners of the Dairy King, told us a lot about the history of the Dairy King, the Route 66 and some other places in Commerce. Charles showed us a picture of the building when it still was a Marathon Station and told us he want to place some gas pumps outside and some other stuff so people can see how it was. They don’t want to become a Marathon Station again because they have a business now as a snack shop.
And he has a brand new business also, making “Route 66 Cookies”. He’s trade marking the name and the special cookie molds which he designed and manufactured himself. He told us he shipped the cookies to several countries in Europe. The cookies are very neat and are available in plain sugar and chocolate chip and they are delicious!!
But, talking to him and his mother and looking around, I knew that this is a building I’m going to make a scale model of. And I did, it’s finished already and now I’m thinking about a new project……
The delivery of the scale models!!
In 2012 we’re going to deliver some scale models to the Route 66 museum in Lebanon, Missouri. Our first meeting with this museum was in 2010 when they ask me to make their diorama complete. That is a whole story and you can read in the Show Me Route 66 magazine. They want to have all my scale models but shipping them to the USA is very expensive. But now we are going to the USA and we were able to take some models with us. It are the following models: The Diamonds Restaurant, The Riviera Roadhouse and Gay Parita. We take an extra suitcase with us and hope that the models will survive the journey!
And they did!! We opened the suitcase at the Munger Moss Motel in Lebanon and only the roof of Gay Parita had a little bit of damage but that could be repaired easily. Our room became very busy, everybody wants to see the models!
There was even a professional photographer, Virginia, who made a couple of hundreds of pictures of the models. Rich Dinkela was also there to interview me, there is going to be an article about me and the models in the “Show Me Route 66” magazine, a quarterly publication of The Route 66 Association of Missouri. And even Gary, the owner of Gay Parita was in Lebanon to see the model of his place. He was thrilled about it and keep on thanking me that I did this.
The next day we delivered the models to the museum. Cathy, the director, was very thankful. The models will get a nice place after they finished the renovation of the museum. Mark is doing a great job there, the place will look awesome when finished!
And they did!! We opened the suitcase at the Munger Moss Motel in Lebanon and only the roof of Gay Parita had a little bit of damage but that could be repaired easily. Our room became very busy, everybody wants to see the models!
There was even a professional photographer, Virginia, who made a couple of hundreds of pictures of the models. Rich Dinkela was also there to interview me, there is going to be an article about me and the models in the “Show Me Route 66” magazine, a quarterly publication of The Route 66 Association of Missouri. And even Gary, the owner of Gay Parita was in Lebanon to see the model of his place. He was thrilled about it and keep on thanking me that I did this.
The next day we delivered the models to the museum. Cathy, the director, was very thankful. The models will get a nice place after they finished the renovation of the museum. Mark is doing a great job there, the place will look awesome when finished!
USA 2012
Route 66 here we come!!! In June 2012 we're going to deliver some scale models to the Route 66 Museum in Lebanon MO. But first we are going to meet Ken the Landrunner and his wife Melissa in Oklahoma City. From OK to Lebanon MO we drive the Route 66. In Lebanon we will meet several people, Judy and Cathy from the Museum, Ramona and Bob from Munger Moss, Jerry and Lynda from Michigan, maybe Gary from Gary´s Gay Parita and we will meet Rich Dinkela for an interview for the Show me Route 66 magazine and to sign the hood of his Route 66 truck.
Gary's Gay Parita
Paris Springs, Missouri
Stop by and make a friend: Gary wants you to
have one of his personalized postcards as a keepsake of your trip of a lifetime
on old U.S. 66.
Quote from: Route 66 University
Gary's Gay Parita
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The Gay
Parita Station of today is one man's tribute to America's Main Street and the
bygone way of life it symbolizes. That man's name is Gary Turner.
After
retiring from a colorful working life, Gary decided he wanted to “keep the past
from slipping away,” so he acquired from his brother-in-law, Steve Faucett,
what we now know as Gay Parita—a reproduction of an early-twentieth-century
Sinclair gasoline station. The original Gay Parita station had been established
back in the 1930s by a couple named Fred and Gay Mason, and the original
native-stone garage from that early era still stands on the property.
Quote from: Route 66 University
Gary's Gay Parita
Odell Station in miniature
Route 66 News
Posted by Ron Warnick in Art, Gas stations.
Willem Bor, a resident of the Netherlands who has created miniature versions of Route 66 landmarks, has finished a new one — the historic Odell Station in Odell, Ill., in 1/25th scale. Bor even made a miniature of the travel trailer that sits next to it.
More of Bor’s work can be seen here, here, and here.
Also, Bor’s Route 66 Art blog shows more of his work.
(Photos courtesy of Willem Bor)
Source: Route 66 News
Scale Models, Standard Oil Co.
Odell, Illinois
This beautiful old gas station was built in 1932 and served travelers on Route 66 until the mid 1960s when it stopped selling gas. This station then was used as a body shop until it closed its doors in 1975. Years of neglect took their toll on this old Standard station. The station would have disappeared if it had not been for the preservation efforts of the Illinois Route 66 Association and their Preservation Committee. A total of $55,000, from grants, matching funds and donations was raised to restore this station to its former glory - not bad for a grass roots effort.
John and Lenore Weiss were the driving force behind this restoration. These two, along with the dedicated volunteers from the Preservation Committee, did what others said couldn't be done. Hampton Inn® even donated $10,000 for this worth while project. In fact it could be said that the Odell Station preservation project was the start of Hampton's interest in Route 66 with their Save-A-Landmark® project. Now this station has been restored to its former glory. The Odell Station may not sell gas anymore, but it has become a Mecca for the Route 66 road wanderer and is the focus of many car rallies and motorcycle tours.
Quote from: The Road Wanderer
This beautiful old gas station was built in 1932 and served travelers on Route 66 until the mid 1960s when it stopped selling gas. This station then was used as a body shop until it closed its doors in 1975. Years of neglect took their toll on this old Standard station. The station would have disappeared if it had not been for the preservation efforts of the Illinois Route 66 Association and their Preservation Committee. A total of $55,000, from grants, matching funds and donations was raised to restore this station to its former glory - not bad for a grass roots effort.
John and Lenore Weiss were the driving force behind this restoration. These two, along with the dedicated volunteers from the Preservation Committee, did what others said couldn't be done. Hampton Inn® even donated $10,000 for this worth while project. In fact it could be said that the Odell Station preservation project was the start of Hampton's interest in Route 66 with their Save-A-Landmark® project. Now this station has been restored to its former glory. The Odell Station may not sell gas anymore, but it has become a Mecca for the Route 66 road wanderer and is the focus of many car rallies and motorcycle tours.
Quote from: The Road Wanderer
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