The annual Christmas windows display at City Hall in downtown Joplin, Mo., will have more of a Mother Road flavor, reported the Joplin Globe:
This year, they are tackling an ambitious task — the recreating of Route 66 from Chicago, Ill., to Santa Monica, Calif. The artists have created 22 panels that depict images one might see along the Mother Road. Among them are many that local residents will recognize.
The Route 66 panels will be placed in the Main Street windows of City Hall, the historic Newman Building, at Sixth and Main streets. They will be unveiled at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30.
June Stokes and Dixie Boyd-Carter will have spent more than 100 hours each creating these windows. City Hall started the Christmas windows display in 2009.
KSN-TV in Joplin posted a video report about the display.
It’s probably not a coincidence that the windows’ Mother Road theme comes a few weeks after it was announced that Joplin will host the International Route 66 Festival in early August.