Date Posted:09:43:23 02/26/02 Tue Author: Jennifer Subject: Re: Whoa! In reply to:
Lori
's message, "Whoa!" on 20:08:59 02/25/02 Mon
When you do come out, we should probably be able to stop for frozen custard at Ted Drewe's. It will be April so they'll be open! Yum!
I agree about spiders, and so does Pat! Yuck!! Of course, that so-called tarantula wasn't *that* big! But it wasn't tiny either and we both wanted to get outta there! Winter (when it's warm though) is much better for exploring without everything being overgrown and full of critters. But it was windy and a bit chilly Sunday, so actually Pat did all of the exploring this time!
Here's a picture of the phone poles in the same area, that I took on my first trip:
You can see the newer poles, which are the taller ones. The old, shorter ones are still there along the route, and since some are broken and knocked down, I don't believe they're in use anymore. We noticed that there was no uniformity in their construction - they were all different heights, some had two and three cross poles, and varying amounts of insulators. The new poles were all consistent. I know what you mean about "progress," I don't recall any poles like that now in CT, so I was interested to see them out here.
The Coral Court was very cool, at least from the photos, since I have not seen it in person either. I have an excellent book all about the Coral Court, by photographer/author Shellee Graham. It's called "Tales From the Coral Court: Photos & Stories from a Lost Route 66 Landmark." If you go to Amazon, just search for books, use "Coral Court" and that will come up. It's terrific!
That is amazing that the woman you visited still had furniture from back then too...must have been really neat to see!
