The memorial is an impressive building filled with lots of artifacts and, perhaps even more, artwork. Statues, busts, and paintings abound and not all are of Rogers. The poster is from his earliest days in show business when he worked as The Cherokee Kid in South Africa. There is plenty of stuff from the rest of his career, too, right up to the mangled typewriter that was with him in the plane when he and Wiley Post fell to their deaths.

In his own quote about his most famous quote (Or maybe it's the quote from which his most famous quote was extracted.) Rogers said he would be proudly reading his own epitaph while waiting for visitors. He may have been there today but I didn't see him. That quote, which indicates that only half of the epitaph he intended is actually carved in the stone is: "When I die, my epitaph is going to read: 'I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.' I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it."

That last picture is of the front of the museum and shows that it sits directly on the Will Rogers Highway, old US-66. I finally get a break from expressways but even Sixty-Six will be divided four lane for awhile.

Ron Warnick's Route 66 News is always a great source for the latest Road happenings and he is doing a wonderful job of pulling together the various bits of news on this event. Existing entries are here and here.

The cool train depot, now used for offices, was not the main reason we stopped here. Cool as it is, it just happens to be next to the Center of the Universe. That's Ron listening to his own echo. It worked for me, too. Weird!