Today's Phot-o' the Day was not from a destination, but from a detour. The Roger Miller Museum in Erick, Oklahoma. Visited on a cross country drive in November 2006 when I flew back east to pick up my 2001 Audi TT roadster convertible, which oh by the way is visible in the photo parked next to the museum.
The museum was located at the corner of Sheb Wooley Boulevard and Route 66. Unlike Mr. Miller, who was raised in Erick, Oklahoma, after his family moved here when he was at the ripe old age of three, the One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater Himself, Mr. Wooley, was born in Erick. But he did not rate a museum back then, apparently, only a boulevard.
The museum was little more than a Roger Miller merchandise seller. I bought a coffee mug. Sadly, it did not say "I smoke old stoagies that I found," which would most certainly not be true, or "Dang me They Oughta Take a Rope and Hang Me," the truthfulness of which is more uncertain. It only read "Roger Miller Museum Erick, Oklahoma." Even sadder yet, the museum appears now to be permanently closed.
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