Shea's Petroliana Museum - Route 66 - The Mother Road on Waymarking.com

Over the course of 50 years, the Sheas put together an amazing little museum.

The site is an old gas station that lay along Route 66, originally as a Texaco and later as a Marathon. To make things really interesting they bought and then colocated the oldest station along the entire length of Route 66 in Illinois, the 1925 Mahan Filling Station. Between these two service stations and the Shea's decades of collecting, they have put together an amazing collection of service station memorabilia. There's so much to see and it's so tightly packed, it's really fun to visit.

To this day, Bill and Helen Shea are still curators of this museum.

Americana: Service Station Significant Interest: Other Icon Milestone or Marker: Other Icon Web Site Address: [Web Link] Address of Icon: 2075 Peoria Road Springfield, IL USA

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