A Mother Road landmark that was lighter than air

PART 5
  • OPERATINGROUNDTHECLOCK, the plant once extracted helium by liquefying the natural gas and separating helium from it at temperatures 300 degrees below zero. | TEXAS SPUR
    OPERATINGROUNDTHECLOCK, the plant once extracted helium by liquefying the natural gas and separating helium from it at temperatures 300 degrees below zero. | TEXAS SPUR

    Along the Mother Road’s 2,448 (give or take) miles are hundreds—maybe thousands—of pull-overworthy sites and sights.

    Think how many you’ve seen in posts if not in person: the world’s second largest rocking chair, in Fanning, Illinois; the Blue Whale in Catoosa, Oklahoma; Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch in Oro Grande, California, to name a few.

    The vast majority that spring to mind were born as promotional…