Kev and Jonne's Excellent Adventure: Day 3

What a Beautiful Morning here in Stroud, OK. This morning we are going to eat at the historic Rock Café.

The owner of this café is Dawn Welch is who the character Sally the Porsche is based off of in the movie Cars.

There are signatures all over the walls in the hallway leading to the dining area so Kevin and I joined in on the fun.

We ate so much food Kevin wanted to take a nap before we left.

Cool and very well maintained mural on the building down the road from the café.

Now we are off to find the shoe tree. We asked our waitress about it to make sure it was a real thing and she assured us it was and gave us directions on how to get there. We came back into to town three times to ask other locals where we might find the tree after about 30 minutes of hunting for it we checked Sassy to see if she knew where it was and she took us right to it. We were told that the less fortunate sometimes come along and take shoe from the tree and throw there old ones up there. We did not know this info when we got shoes for the tree because we threw up a childs size 11 purple flip flops. Not a super functional pair of shoes for someone needing a pair of shoes.

Ready, Set

Throw

Great shot got them up there first try! Kecky Rocks!

Here is the sign at the exit end of the shoe tree. Think it would be more appropriate were you would turn to go into instead of as you leave the attraction.

Twin arrows

Great Stop in Arcadia, OK Mr. John Hargrove who grew up on 66. When he decided to retire he sold everything he had and bought a piece of property on 66 and began building replicas of everything he had seen on the route and his property has become a roadside attraction on 66 itself.

John Hargrove

Incredibly sweet man. He gave us directions to a couple of his favorite places in OK then took a picture with us. He even warned us of the mosquitos in the area and had us put bug spray on before we left.

Arcadia is also home to the world's largest pop bottle.

The round barn was built in 1898

Located in Oklahoma City, OK is the milk bottle grocery. It was originally the triangle grocery until 1948 when the giant metal milk bottle was added to the top of it. It was restored to its original condition in August 2014.

The gold dome built in 1958 and has been a landmark on 66.

This is Bricktown, OK. Home of the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

Kevin with a statue of Mickey Mantle

Kevin and Johnny Bench

and the Bricktown Canal

The Spaghetti Warehouse the first business to move into Bricktown

The Oklahoma City National Memorial. It honors the victims, survivors and rescuers and all who were affected by the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building that was bombed in 1995.

Sayre, OK is the home of the Beckham County courthouse. Which was presented in the movie the Grapes of Wrath.

In Erick, OK you will find the Sand Hills Curiosity Shop.

U-drop Inn in Shamrock, TX built in 1936. Ramone's Body shop is heavily inspired by the Tower Station & U-Drop Inn

We tried doing this earlier in the middle of the road in Galena and cars kept coming and we were afraid we were going to end up getting hit by a car. Not a good thing to do while on vacation.