The Joplin Globe‘s story about the Tri-State Route 66 Festival at Downstream Casino Resort that contained a few pearls of useful information for roadies.
- Danny Charles and T.J. Davis this fall will open a 1895 building on historic Route 66 in downtown Galena, Kan., as a pizzeria and pub. Volunteers from the festival helped them clean the property. The town has been without a tavern on that stretch of the Mother Road since undermining destroyed the historic Green Parrot tavern in 2007.
- The state of Kansas wants its own Route 66 Scenic Byway on Route 66, like its neighbors Missouri and Oklahoma do.
- Webb City, Mo., hopes to open its Route 66 Welcome Center, formerly a gas station in downtown, by August.
- Barbara Smith of the Coleman Theatre in Miami, Okla., said that work is progressing on a tourism publication to promote Route 66 from Carthage, Mo., to Miami.