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Skyline Motel

8136 W. Joliet Ave., McCook, IL
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This motel was built in 1984 and is on what was the site that the Fairyland Park and its famous Whoopee Ride at Joliet Road.& Lawndale Ave. Customesr on the Whoopee Ride drove their own cars on a closed course wooden road that mimicked a a road or bridge with a sharp crest. Sort of like the Whee Bridge in Carthage, Missouri.

Being built in 1984 at the very end of the historic Route 66 era the motel has no real connection to the historic Mother Road era beyond being on the former site of Fairyland Park and the famous Whoopee Ride.

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Photo(s): 2016

 

 

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