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GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT OZARKS HISTORY

Gay Para is a lol landmark for Route 66 enthiasts.

Gay Para was the feature of the July 2021 Ozarks Alive: Time Capsule episo on KSMU.

But one memory liv on the form of an old-fashned Sclair service statn lled Gay Para, loted some 20-some wt of the Queen small, lorful statn, adorned wh vtage dér, is tly a sign of the tim.

GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT IN OZARKS HISTORY

” Those are the words of Gee Bowick, who liv at Gay Para wh his partner, Barbara Barn. They ntue a legacy that began around a century ago, when the statn was opened by Fred and Gay Mason the 1920s. Gee Bowick pots to a photo of Fred and Gay Mason, who opened the statn the 1920s.

Most thgs remaed the same after Gee and Barbara moved om the East Coast to take over Gay Para.

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“That’s the same hoe that Fred and Gay Mason lived , that’s the same hoe that Gary and Lena Turner lived , and now ’s where Barbara and I live, ” says Gee. For more rmatn about Gay Para, click here. When I was young, we ed to dance to polka bands at the Gay Para, a big old dance hall out the sticks near Carona, Kansas, where people of every age would dance the polka together.

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