While returning to Tulsa from a weekend outing in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, we saw a slight but welcome change to the restoration of the closed Lucille’s near Hydro, Okla.
See it?
Here’s a hint:
The little Lucille’s sign has been restored. The sign had continued to fade after Lucille Hamons’ death in 2000, and it was becoming nearly illegible.
Lucille’s is preserved as a photo op, and as a hook to guide travelers to Lucille’s Roadhouse restaurant a few miles down Route 66 in nearby Weatherford. Oil man Rick Koch owns both properties.
The new unfaded sign was in place sometime prior to the June festival in Clinton. At least the east side was. I have no photos of the side pictured here but I imagine both sides were replaced at the same time.
Yeah, Denny, I figured that the sign was refurbished some months ago. But I wanted folks who didn’t know about it — like me — to get the word.