A former A&W Restaurant near Route 66 in Carthage, Missouri, was destroyed by fire late Friday during the city’s annual Maple Leaf Festival.
After the A&W closed at that location, it became Hartman’s Mercantile, a secondhand store.
KODE-TV has a report about the fire:
The building was at 502 S. Garrison Ave., which is about a block south of where Route 66 turns from Garrison onto Oak Street.
According to A&W’s website, the restaurant’s signature root beer was created in 1919, and the first restaurant went up in 1924.
(Hat tip to Ron Hart)