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June 20, 2015: Cozy Dog Run
It was a great day to go on a road trip for the day, so we decided to take our grandson to lunch over at the Cozy Dog Drive-in on Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois! Photo Gallery Click on any photo below to launch the photo gallery. [FAGP id=2779]
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2014 Illinois Route 66 Motor Tour – 25th Anniversary
The Route.. Below is an interactive map of our trip, tracked using my Trimble Outdoors Navigator iPhone app. You can zoom in, or click the link above for a bigger, fullscreen map. Photographs This blog contains a sampling of the photos from our trip. To view all of the photos from our trip, view the slideshow at the bottom of the post or visit our Road Trip Memories page on Flickr at the link below. Saturday, June 14, 2014 Long story VERY short, a change in plans allowed us to be able to attend the 25th Illinois Route 66 Motor Tour. We had been on the tour several times before, but…
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Tri-State Route 66 Festival — The Prelude
Here it is Wednesday morning and we’re getting ready to head off for five (hopefully) peaceful days on the road. Our day will start off with a drive out to Springfield, Illinois where we’ll have lunch at the Cozy Dog Drive In, well known as the restaurant where the corn dog was invented 50-some years ago. From there, we pick up that grand old two-lane highway, Route 66 and take it south into St. Louis, where chances are we’ll be diving into a concrete from Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, another Route 66 icon dating back to 1941. After that, we meander our way through the Ozarks of Missouri before picking…
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Route 66 Cozy Dog Run
Sure you can get an average corn dog anywhere, but why settle for average when you can have the best! The Cozy Dog Drive-In, on Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois was started by Ed Waldmire in 1946. You can read more about the history of the Cozy Dog here. Slideshow of All Photos For more details about a particular photo, click on it in the slideshow and it will open in my Flickr site. [flickrslideshow acct_name=”roadtripmemories” id=”72157603706854785″ width=”500″]
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Second Route 66 Weekend Together February 3–4, 2001
Springfield, Illinois to St. Louis, Missouri Since our Route 66 trip through Illinois had been cut short the previous weekend because of snow, Jennifer and I decided to finish the second half of the journey the following weekend. We started the trip by leaving Indianapolis and heading west on US 36 toward Springfield, Illinois. The main goal for the afternoon was simple: return to Cozy Dog Drive-In and see if Jennifer could finally try her first Cozy Dog. The weekend before, the Cozy had mysteriously been closed even though it should have been open. Fortunately, this time our luck was better. When we arrived Saturday afternoon, the Cozy was open…