The Route 66 Mother Road Museum in Barstow, California, reopened Saturday after the facility closed last summer.
The museum hosted a ceremonial ribbon-cutting that day that included local and federal officials, plus an appearance by a tribute to a band known in “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” musical circles.
The museum closed last summer due to water damage from monsoons. According to a preview story in the Victorville Daily News about the museum’s reopening, a small group of investors and historians worked on the site in the interim.
Brendan O’Brien, who is developing property around the California Route 66 Museum in nearby Victorville, is the brainchild behind the museum’s resurrection.
The Route 66 Mother Road Museum originally opened in a wing of the Casa del Desierto Harvey House in 2000.
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