A new exhibition honoring one of the original highways in the United States is in the works at the Illinois State Museum.
A new exhibition honoring one of the original highways in the United States is in the works at the Illinois State Museum, the institution announced recently.
Though the exhibit is four years away, the museum has received a significant contribution from the family of Bob Waldmire, an artist and cartographer known for his art pieces of Route 66. A pair of the patched, cutoff shorts Waldmire wore on his journey along the highway, a roadside display stand for selling postcards, and a hand-painting of a map of Route 66 that was designed on the hood of his 1965 Mustang was also part of the donation.
Throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, Waldmire drove Route 66 and stopped in towns along the way to create and sell his art.
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