America's Biggest Road Trip 30 May 2003

	America's Biggest Road Trip!
	Route 66 Caravan Road Log: May 30, 2003


	Lunch at Ann's Chicken Fry House

Yukon Chamber of Commerce Mixer

		The wonderful town of Yukon, Oklahoma was not finished with the Route 66 Caravan yet. We had a Friday morning get together with the Chamber of Commerce at the Hampton Inn. What a turn out, even the mayor came! Lest we get too much of a swelled head now, Cathy Patton the Chamber President confided in me that they do this EVERY Friday morning at different locations. I Like This Town!
		Sheila Dahl (far right) presents a 1935 Oklahoma Road Map to the Caravan. Pictured left to right are Jamie, Kevin, Traci, Jim, Guy, and Sheila.		Cathy Patton, President of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce and Earline Smaistrla, Mayor of Yukon. Yukon is full of just plain great folks!

		After the Chamber of Commerce Mixer we had to make a hasty exit for Oklahoma City. We were expected at Ann's Chicken Fry and Gift Shop at 10:00 a.m. for a Save-A-Landmark Roadside Attraction Sign presentation. It was a few minutes after 9:00 when we left the Yukon Hampton Inn. Once again Jim impressed me with his driving skills. It truly was a sight to behold. I swear his foot got just a little bit heavier on the pedal because we made it to Ann's in record time. Of course Jaimie Hall and I had to pick up the scattered papers, magazines, soda cans and other assorted objects tossed around the RV though. Those were items left over from Jim's mad dash through traffic on Route 66!

		Ann's Chicken Fry House and Gift Shop
				"So this is the way it's supposed to taste!" ~ the immortal words of Dennis Karlstad when he took his first bite of his chicken fried steak at Ann's Chicken Fry House. I guess that says it all.

				Ann's Chicken Fry House started life on Route 66 in 1948 as a Cities Service gas station. It operated as such along the Mother Road until 1966 when it was transformed into a restaurant called "Three Bulls Steak House."

		In 1971 when Al Burchett returned home from Vietnam he was looking for something to do. He became a partner with his brother and they purchased the Three Bulls Steak House. They needed another name though and couldn't decide on one. With a stroke of inspiration they put all of their names, including their wives, in a hat and relied on pure luck. Ann, Al's brother's wife was drawn - and Ann's it became!




		Al Burchett owner of Ann's		Al gives Dennis a hard time

		Roadside Attraction Ceremony
		Al, Jim and Traci at the ceremony.		"I've been waiting 32 years for a sign like this!" says Ann's operator Al Burchett.

		The food at Ann's Chicken House is original, tasty, and always fresh! I had my first fried peaches, a delicacy I was a little leery of trying, but one bite convinced me that this was pure heaven. The food is fantastic. For fried green tomatoes, fried olives with cheese, and of course the best Chicken Fried Steak in the world you have got to stop by Ann's Chicken Fry House.		Ann's cooks know how to dish out the good stuff. Left to right, Orlando Garza, Al, Jim. and Travis Ayers.

		Route 66 Overholser Bridge

		This classic old steel truss bridge is located between Oklahoma City and Yukon on old Route 66 at Lake Overholser, or as the locals were want to call it; "Lake Hold Her Closer." I got that information from Kathy Anderson, acting president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association. Lake Overholser is a man made lake that was once used as a sea-plane base during W.W.II.

		*Previous Log*	Road Log pages read like a book: Follow the Route 66 Caravan down the Mother Road ~ select the Route 66 direction you would like to go.		Arcadia's Round Barn




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