Crestwood Bowl Neon Sign - Route 66
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Crestwood Bowl Neon Sign - Route 66
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Photograph - Photography
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The vintage Crestwood Bowl neon sign on Route 66 in Crestwood, Missouri.
Professional bowlers Dick Weber, Pat Patterson, and Rich Volling opened the Crestwood Bowl in 1957, and the sign was put up then. At the time, Watson Road, as the 1926 alignment of the Mother Road, was the primary route coming out of the city of St. Louis heading West during the heavy post-WWII travel era.
Today it is owned by Ray Bluth and his family. Bluth, a professional bowler in the PBA Hall of Fame, purchased the Crestwood Bow in 1973. His son, Mike, runs it. The Crestwood Bowl has 24 lanes, a lounge, and a snack bar.
The Crestwood Bowl sign was the last of the historic Route 66 neon along Watson Road more than fifty years later. When it went dark in around 2009, the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program awarded the bowling alley a grant to assist in the restoration of this important sign. As a result, it was relit in 2012 and is one of only three signs in St Louis County to receive a County Landmark designation by the Historic Buildings Commission of St Louis County.
Copyright 2022 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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June 1st, 2022
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