This is sort of lame but I always wanted to stop at this place about midway between Joplin and Springfield on I44. I don't recall if we ever did when it was in business. We stopped and stretched our legs there the other day and I snapped some pics. Don't know what happened to it. It's pretty well rundown. I doubt it will be under new management...I thought the place was a great example of those tourist traps you'd always see the signs for, maybe a hundred or so miles away before you got there, when I was a kid. "Worth Waitin' For".
That's what Jenny and I were guessing. I may have stopped there once or twice, when it was open and just gassed up. I don't remember ever being inside though. We couldn't remember exactly how long it had looked closed. Just ten years ago the place didn't look so bad.
Pretty soon your light display at the Seminary will be up and running...