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Route 66 motels are an endangered species

JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer MIAMI, Okla.

The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma. Next door, soybean farmers Richard and Rosemary Woolard watch the place deteriorate from their front porch. “Been a lot of changes in this old county,” 77-year-old Richard Woolard says plainly. The Riviera Courts is among hundr...

 

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