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The Midpoint Café, a restaurant, souvenir and antique shop on US Route 66 in Adrian, Texas, bills itself as geographically the midway point between Los Angeles and Chicago on historic Route 66. Signage in Adrian proudly declares a 1139 mile distance to each original US 66 endpoint; the café's slogan is "when you're here, you're halfway there". Fran Houser, owner of the Midpoint Café from 1990 until 2012, is the basis for Flo of "Flo's V-8 Café" in ''Cars''. ==History== The café, built in 1928 and expanded in 1947, operated 24 hours a day during Route 66's heyday〔 and is the oldest continuously-operating Route 66 café between Amarillo, Texas and Tucumcari, New Mexico. Its origins can be traced to a one-room, dirt-floor brick café known as Zella's, built by Jeannie VanderWort and leased to Zella Prin. The restaurant changed hands several times.〔 Dub Edmunds and Jesse Fincher acquired the property in 1956, operating it and an adjacent filling station as Jesse's Café until 1976. It became well known for its hot, fresh home-made pies. Adrian was bypassed by Interstate 40 in 1969, leading to an abrupt decline in traffic through the village.〔Texas Department of Transportation, (Highway Designation File - State Highway Loop 550 )〕 Interstate 40 in Texas replaced US 66 in-place except within individual towns, which were bypassed by retaining the old main street as a business loop. Most of Route 66 in Texas was turned into frontage road for the new Interstate highway or disappeared entirely. As business declined, the local Adrian population dropped to approximately 220 in the late 20th century and an estimated 149 in 2008. The café was sold in 1976 to Terry and Peggy Creitz as Peggy's Café; a subsequent owner changed the name to Rachel's. Fran Houser purchased the business, naming it the Adrian Café, in 1990. Her original plan was to establish an antique shop at the site. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Midpoint Café」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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