John's Place on OK County 66

by Priscilla Burgers

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John's Place on OK County 66

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Priscilla Burgers

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Photograph - Photography

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JOHN'S PLACE ON OK COUNTY 66 by PRISCILLA BURGERS

John's Place is the creative product of John Hargrove, a former airplane and school bus mechanic. John grew up just off Route 66 in Oklahoma City and was always fascinated by the "Mother Road. In 1998 he sold everything that he had, bought a piece of Route 66 property just east of Oklahoma City in Arcadia, and began building his attraction. John is creating replicas of classic roadside icons, most of them found along Route 66, and scattering them around his property. He's got his own versions of the giant Twin Arrows, a big jackrabbit, a Wigwam motel room, a big kachina doll, a fake Meramec Caverns barn roof, a Volkswagen Beetle buried nose down in the earth and a pond to hold a replica Blue Whale. Indoors, John has built a replica diner interior that can seat between 50 and 100 people. A drive-in movie screen fills one wall. There's another Volkswagen Beetle, which sticks halfway out of the second floor, next to the balcony. Visitors can crawl into the driver and passenger seats for a photo op.John has never actually visited most of the icon attractions that he's erected on his property. He's only driven the Route 66 stretches in Oklahoma. A fashion magazine even brought models out and did a photo shoot among John's icons.

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June 19th, 2016

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