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ROUTE 66 : Tip 15 - The delights of changing rooms

"This for me is will be the highlight of the entire trip"

"Where's the planes then ?"

"Pardon ?"

"You said we were looking round the Wrights home"

"Frank LLoyd Wright, you Philistine, he designed this fanastic house for Dana Thomas"

"What ? right next to the rail track - hardly a great location"

"Well, unlike some of his other creation he rebuilt and vastly added to a home that was already in the family"

"So I suppose this place will have what you call 'esquisite taste"

"It will, and you're going to appreciate it"

"I will, did she have a pool room ?"

"No, but she did have here own bowling alley"

"Sorted woman, I'm sold on it"

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Directions: Address: 301 E. Lawrence Ave.
Springfield, IL 62703.

Phone: Phone: 217-782-6776

ROUTE 66 : Tip 14 - Abe finally stops moving about

"Well there's no doubt that a big monument and one million visitors expresses what Americans think about honest Abe"

"He had a bit of an odd relationship with death you know.."

"How come ?"

"Well he exhumed his own sons body twice to have a good look, and when his own death came he was moved for various reasons some seventeen times until the tons of concrete in that thing made sure he didn't move again"

"How are sure it's him in there then ?"

"Well, the exumed him at the turn of the 19th / 20th Century so various people could have a good look. It's said that his feature were very much in tact, like it was a statue of himself. Oh, and there was an almighty stench"

"Anything else, O wise one ?"

"Well somebody tried to kidnap him !"

"What when he was already dead ?"

"Yep, it's amazing the schemes some people dream up"

"You can say that again"

"Yep, its amazing the schemes..."

ROUTE 66: Tip 13 -Old Abe keeps up with the Jones'

"Here we are, National Parks services, home of Abraham Lincoln"

"At least it's free"

"Looks like a period film-set around here"

"Do we take a tour of the house ?"

"Only if we stand in line like good little citizens and get our lovely ticket first"

"I bet the tone is all reverential"

"My grandad lives in a house older than this..."

"Be quiet"

"I want to see Abe's crapper"

"Will you shut up and behave yourself !"

"I bet he was glad he hooked up with a lass with a bit of dough - look at the size of this gaff !"

"You're going to get thrown out in a minute"

"Sorry, but this obsession with treating Lincoln as a kind of American saint just sticks in my throat"

"You really will have something stuck in your throat if you don't have a bit more respect"

"Should still be part of the Colonies, if you ask me"

"Nobody did"