Here is a mid-1950s photo of the iconic Milk Bottle Grocery, Oklahoma City site along Route 66 with "Townley's Dairy" on the milk bottle. Constructed in 1930, the tiny, 350-square-foot triangular commercial building of red brick is located on a speck of real estate right in the right-of-way of a busy urban thoroughfare. It sits at an old streetcar stop along a line that ran diagonally across Classen Boulevard, which served as a segment of Route 66’s original Oklahoma City alignment. If conducting business in a tiny brick store in the middle of a city street is not remarkable enough, the towering milk bottle perched on the store’s flat roof confirms that the Milk Bottle Grocery is a Mother Road must-see. Originally Steffen's Dairy was on the bottle. Then Townley's for many years and Braum's today. The dairies had nothing to do with ownership of the building. Only advertising there is a prominent spot all these years. Originally a streetcar stop, built in 1930. Housed the Triangle Grocery from 1940-48 when the name was changed to the Milk Bottle Grocery after the bottle was added. Built of sheet metal around 1948, the eye-catching milk bottle was, and still is, quite an advertising gimmick for the dairy industry. The Milk Bottle Grocery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is still there in 2023 going strong.
The Baobab or reniala is a prehistoric species dating back to over 200 million years ago. Reniala means "mother of the forest" in Malagasy. This is the largest Baobab in Madagascar recording a girth of 28.88m.
There were once six Cherry’s Hamburgers locations in Oklahoma City, including one on 23rd Street a few blocks west of the state capitol. The Oklahoma Historical Society identifies this as the Route 66 location, which was offering root beer for a nickel and ten cent malts when this view was taken about 1949. (Oklahoma Historical Society)
