Bethany 1920 to 1950 - Route 66 Mural - Bethany, Oklahoma, USA.
N 35° 30.677 W 097° 37.751
14S E 624310 N 3930608
Mural depicting local scenes & businesses from Bethany's early days, when Route 66 was in its heyday. The mural is displayed on the Side of a Mexican Restaurant alongside the Mother Road In Bethany, Oklahoma.
Waymark Code: WMWJG4
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2017
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The official title is 'East College Street Mural' A Large mural approximately 50 feet long, 20 feet high. Painted on a concrete block wall, with a mostly pink background.
The Mural features the 1920's to 1950's Route 66 related business's & Icons of the period.
There are five businesses displayed along the top half of the mural in picture frames. Along the base are vintage classic car's & an old Fire truck. The bottom left corners has the signatures of all the artists involved, & most importantly a large Oklahoma Route 66 shield, holds pride of place to the right of the mural.
The mural takes up the entire side of Birrieria Diaz a Mexican Restaurant in Bethany, Oklahoma.
Artist signatures on mural:
signed:
Palmer
t. Panizzo
S Henderson
J. Vinyard
Kelly Farrar
Sharon McCoy
Lisa Quishenberry
muralsbypalmer.com
"Postcards of past Bethany buildings and people cover the wall on the east side of College Street and 39th Expressway. Most of the images are drawn from photographs. One of the Bethany Improvement Foundation founding members, the last Bethany Tribune editor Gloria Quaid is in the mural holding a newspaper. Tourists and Pokémon players are often witnessed posing and taking photos beside the Route 66 sign or the painted old vehicles."
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