This is our second year traveling the route and we have never been treated more poorly than we were at this location. While traveling with 3 cars consisting of my mother-in-law, father-in-law, my mother and father, my husband and myself we decided to stop and buy some Route 66 memorabilia. We all piled out of our separate vehicles and made our way towards the two teepees located on the property next to the parking area. We were not even able to go a few steps before being rudely stopped by a woman who was very nasty in telling us we were not allowed to take pictures and we would not be allowed to enter the gift shop without first paying a $2.00 fee just to enter. Now, in my opinion, the fact that this fee is charged at all is ridiculous yet we might have been willing to pay it if the information had been imparted with the smallest bit of courtesy. However, the woman was so rude everyone in the group was offended and we decided to spend our money elsewhere. Nowhere on the property or on any signage leading up to the property was there anything posted about a fee for entering or a warning to not take pictures.

That should have been the end of it as we were already walking back (just a few steps) to our cars to leave, however, it was not the end. The woman started shouting and a man came out of one of the teepees and stomped angrily towards us. Then both the man and woman started shouting at us that we needed to get off their property while physically charging at us. My husband had opened the trunk for me when we first arrived so I might get an umbrella since it was beginning to rain quite heavily. He opened the trunk so that I might put the umbrella back in and these nasty people shouted that we were stinking up their parking area and we needed to leave immediately. At this time my mother-in-law, father and mother were already back in their vehicles and my father-in-law had his door open ready to get in. (Just for reference, this all happened in less than five minutes.) These people shouted at us that we were users and other rude profanity because we didn’t want to pay their fee. That wasn’t the issue. The issue was how rudely we were told about this fee.

As we were pulling out of the parking lot the man charged each of our cars and took pictures of the vehicles we were driving as well as our license plates! What? We can’t take pictures but they can? I think they owe us $6.00; $2.00 for each vehicle.

Talk about giving the route a bad name. It is my suggestion that if you don’t want bad tempered proprietors shouting at you, charging you and your vehicle physically, and being threatened you should avoid this stop like the plague!

Sincerely,

The Phillips and Baker Family’s

Fort Worth, Texas