The Pulaski County (Mo.) Board received an engineering proposal to rehabilitate the 1923 Devil’s Elbow Bridge on the Route 66 hamlet of Devil’s Elbow, reported the Waynesville Daily Guide.
It sounds like the county is feeling a sense of urgency for the project:
“The rate deterioration is increasing, and this is the time to do something,” Jones said. “It’s not going to get any cheaper.”
Losing the Devil’s Elbow Bridge would cut off much of the traffic to the Elbow Inn, a bar and grill located in Devil’s Elbow that has become a tourist destination. Showing the visitor’s book at the Elbow Inn with signatures from all over the world as well as all over the United States was a factor that convinced MoDOT officials to make bridge grants a priority, Farnham said.
“It is amazing how many people come through this county on Route 66 and travel through there,” Farnham said.