Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis – Exhibit at Missouri History Museum
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center presents
Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis – Exhibit at Missouri History Museum
June 25, 2016 at 8:00 am
Missouri History Museum
Forest Park
This exhibit features pieces from the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center’s archives, and will run June 25, 2016 through February 5, 2017.
The Missouri History Museum has become one of the largest museum institutions in our community to look for natural partnerships with Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. We are excited to announce that some of our archival material from the Jewish Community Archives of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis will be on display in the Route 66 exhibition, which will be on view for 7 months. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of the items we have and to bring attention to our work in preserving Jewish history in our community. Below is a description of what will be on display:
Brochure from the Fred Harvey Hotel “La Posada” in Winslow, AZ in “Western Trip brochures,” Cwejgbaum Collection (Box 1.16) This brochure explicitly says that it is on Route 66, and the Cwejgbaums stayed there in 1956 without incident.
Letter from Mrs. Margaret Weisthal of Shaker Heights, OH who wrote to the JCRC in 1958. She was asking if there was a resort near St. Louis where “Jewish people can be comfortable.” She was traveling with her 8 year old son and was worried about whether any resorts close to St. Louis would accept a Jewish woman traveling alone with her child. [JCRC, Topic Files: Discrimination, Resorts, 1951-1969; Temp Box 58]
Brochure of the Bird’s Nest Lodge in Cuba MO; cover reads “We Cater Only to Gentiles.” [JCRC, Topic Files: Hotels & Resorts, Possible Cases of Discrimination, 1947-1959; Temp Box 28]
Brochure of the Fox Springs Lodge, Cuba MO; inside reads “We cater to a Gentile Clientele ONLY.” [JCRC, Topic Files: Hotels & Resorts, Possible Cases of Discrimination, 1947-1959; Temp Box 28]
Letter to Betty Tischer, Auto Club of Missouri from Edgewater Beach Cottages, Lake of the Ozarks, 1949 concerning the reservations for Charles Hirson. At the bottom of the letter they have typed “Gentiles…Please…” Ms. Tischer apparently sent it on to the JCRC with the added note “refer to the ADL please!” at the bottom.
For more information, call 314-588-7090.