Reader Dan Imming sent a few photos after the Green Parrot tavern on Route 66 in Galena, Kan., was demolished. The century-old building was structurally compromised when a sinkhole, caused by collapsing underground mine, opened behind the property.
Imming says the demolition contractor is carefully salvaging the bricks, stone and wood, which will be used to restore another old building not on Route 66.
If you’re in Galena, don’t ask the workmen whether you can buy a few of those bricks. Imming tried, and was rebuffed.
Imming did manage to acquire one of the building’s Miami Stone window ledges made in nearby Miami, Okla. Imming has an 1891 building in Galena he’s trying to fix up, and the ledge will come in handy with that endeavor.
