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Lilley’s Tourist Camp: two miles West on “66” -- Springfield MO. One large silver gelatin panoramic photo capturing the general store and restaurant motel cottages camp grounds and the Sinclair gas station.

1929 · rif. 64507 — Springfield MO: Kucker Studio 1606 W. Elm Lilley’s Tourist Camp ca. 1929. One large oblong panoramic photograph sized 32 x 10.25 in. generous white margins photographer’s imprint & caption w/in negative at lower fore-edge minor scuffing closed tears & minor creasing to either end still nice bright image w/ excellent contrast. This original photograph captures the quintessential Motoring Tourist Camp run by the Lilley’s at the end of the Roaring 20’s along historic US Route 66 through Springfield MO. The structures all were designed in the stucco Spanish-Revival style with clay roofs Sinclair Visible Gas Pumps and a restaurant that served chicken & steak dinners packed lunches and BBQ sandwiches. This image remains largely the only record of the short-lived efforts of James Lilley 1893-1967 to run and operate a Sinclair gas station car repair grocery store and restaurant before the Great Depression when later he went to work for the railroad and the entrepreneurial life was left behind. May 1886-1950 was longtime photographer for Springfield Missouri’s Kucker Studio noted for his images of the Southwest Missouri State Teacher’s College Drury University and even historical portraits such as President Harry S. Truman. He was also known for documenting many of the sites along Route 66 where it intersected through Springfield. No similar records of this image could be found. Kucker Studio, [1606 W. Elm], Lilley’s Tourist Camp, unknown