California Route 66 Museum, Transport museum in Victorville, US.
The California Route 66 Museum is a transport museum in Victorville dedicated to America's legendary highway through three exhibition rooms. The collection displays photographs, artifacts, and classic automobiles that document different periods of this famous route.
The museum opened on November 11, 1995, founded by Old Town Victorville Heritage Preservation, Inc. It occupies the 5,000-square-foot former Red Rooster Cafe at 16825 D Street, a building later used by a grocer. In 1996 it took in exhibits from Hula Ville, Miles Mahan's folk-art collection of hand-painted roadside signs and bottle-cactus sculptures.
The museum displays the Hula Ville collection, hand-painted wooden advertising signs from businesses along the old Route 66, assembled by Miles Mahan from the mid-1950s and brought here in 1996 after his death. Visitors can also see the first "End-of-the-Trails" sign from Santa Monica and pose at a 1950s diner table, in a hippie-era VW bus or beside a 1917 Ford Model T.
The museum occupies a 5,000-square-foot former cafe at 16825 D Street in Old Town Victorville, with three display rooms and a gift shop. Volunteers staff the site, which is funded by donations and souvenir sales. Visitors can pose for photos at a 1950s diner table, in a hippie-era VW bus, beside a 1917 Ford Model T or at a historic outhouse.
The museum displays the first "End of the Trail" sign from Santa Monica, and since 1996 it has housed the Hula Ville collection: hand-painted wooden advertising boards and bottle-cactus sculptures made by Miles Mahan from the mid-1950s, shown as Hula Ville – Twentieth Century Folk Art.
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