I was down in the Springfield, MO depot area area yesterday and took quite a few photos for my layout. Does anybody have a clue what the building is across the street was? It is located southeast of where the depot was on Main Street and where was the parking lot? It is not the building operated as a haunted house. Thanks for the help.
The multi 2 or 3 story brick building southeast across Main from the depot site was the Victory Mission until the late 1970s or early 1980s. Before that is was a hotel. TAG can probably tell us the name of the hotel. Somewhere I have a photo of it shot in the mid 1970s when it still had a spiral iron fire escape. In that same row of buildings was a tavern. John Sanders
That was the "Texas Hotel." Because my brother and I liked trains so much, my dad said one time he was going to rent us a room there! There was kind of a softball players' bar in there by the hotel called "Newt's Depot Tavern" and another place called the "Oasis Bar & Grill." The Oasis was a blue collar lunch venue by day and a rather rough redneck bar at night. For more details about the depot, go to the "Depots and Stations" section and check out the pictures on page 19. Tom
