Midway on Illinois Mother Road - Mural - Atlanta, Illinois, USA.
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member veritas vita
N 40° 15.646 W 089° 13.894
16T E 310232 N 4459089
Atlanta lies approx midway along the 300 mile long section of Illinois Route 66. This Mural is designed to promote Atlantas status to the attention of tourists & Mother road trippers.
Waymark Code: WMN89F
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
Views: 9

The Mural is mounted high on a wall & is a about 20 feet long by 6 feet tall.

"Designed by Bill Diaz of Pontiac, Illinois, the "Atlanta: Midway on Illinois Mother Road" mural captures the spirit of Atlanta's place on Route 66. Location approximately 150 miles from both Chicago and St. Louis, Atlanta occupies a central spot in the state where the road began. Bill diaz designed this 20' x 6' mural on several large metal panels that were framed together and mounted. The mural was completed in June 2003 during the "letter Rip on Rt. 66" gathering of approximately 100 Letterheads in Atlanta." Text source: (visit link)

"Traveling 66 once meant stopping at a local café for the blue plate special, filling up with regular at the Standard station, then bedding down in a motel that might resemble anything from a wigwam to a pink stuccoed palace," organizers of the upcoming event noted in a news release. "It also meant motoring by scores of brightly painted advertisements on the sides of brick buildings dotting Illinois' mother road. Now faded, but not forgotten, these Rt. 66 'Ghost Signs' are the focus of efforts to revive the quarter-mile stretch of Old Rt. 66 that passes through the middle of downtown Atlanta." Text source: (visit link)

Hwy 66, Downtown Atlanta, Atlanta, IL
City: Atlanta

Location Name: Unknown building - Central Downtown Atlanta.

Artist: Bill Diaz

Date: June 2003

Media: Acrylic paint - on metal sheets.

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