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- Dude’s Donut Shop
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- Tumble Inn, corner 7th & Michigan
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- Yellow Rose Garden
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- Yellow Rose Buds
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- Stone’s Corner, Hwy 43 & Airport Drive
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- Royal Drugs, corner 7th & St. Louis
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- Neosho’s Orpheum
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- Joplin Depot, west of 10th & Main
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- Glady’s Heidelberg Inn, corner Broadway & St. Louis
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- Baseball Dreamer
The August exhibit features paintings by Joplin artist Nancy Erwin. Many of the paintings depict historic landmarks of the area, including some on Route 66.
Even as a child, Erwin loved to put her dreams in drawings on paper. Some of her earliest drawings were the latest women’s fashions. She focused on design and color. After raising three children, she enrolled in art classes at Missouri Southern State University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in graphic art.
Erwin says, “I love to paint the past, and Joplin has culture and character that distinguishes it as a unique studio for my paintings. Watercolor seems to work best as I visualize the buildings and scenery surrounding the Joplin area, and my mind captures on canvas the place I love. Being born and raised in Joplin, I see the past change before my eyes, and my dreams of being an artist have now become reality.”
On August 21, 2012, Brad Douglas featured Erwin’s work on the KSN evening news. Click this link to watch it.
The Tumble Inn and Royal Drug both held long enduring affection in my heart. As a child from birth to 10, I lived over on 2640 East 7th Street. Many warm summer evenings my father and I would walk down to the Royal Drug and have a root beer float or cherry phosphate from the fountain. Roy Bilderback was the druggist there and had the most full head of white hair and a mustache. Every one really like him. The door was a wooden screen door with a cow bell on it and when someone went in, the bell naturally rang, or should I say clanged LOL
The Tumble Inn was where all the truckers hung out. Especially the Empire District crew on the trucks at break time or lunch. My father worked for Empire in the transformer shop and many times we would stop by there and I would get to hang out with the guys. They all spoiled that little blonde headed only child that her daddy doted on, They guys all liked my dad really well,
I enjoyed the pictures, they’re nicely done.