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If you have made it to our blog, you know that in 2009 Viva Cuba launched a new website cubamomurals.com. We hope you have taken the time to look over our site and signed up for our future email newsletter. And if you haven’t already, come see us in Cuba. Below is the official news [...] Cuba, “Route 66 Mural City” Visitor Center Cuba, MO’s well-appointed Visitor Center offers drinks, a rest-room stop, many brochures from around the country, and a staff to help travelers make the most of the area. Located at the I-44 Overpass Exit 208, the Center is open 7 days a week. A large light [...] A colorful, but somewhat confusing, intersection in Cuba, Missouri got some new direction with the installation of dual signage. After Route 66 tourists and others were confused with the existing sign in the center of the Route 66 community of Cuba, Missouri, the city and MoDOT agreed on the use of signs that paid [...] Pre-Mom’s Day Chair-i-table Auction at Java.net Reserve Saturday, May 9 for Viva Cuba’s annual chair-i-table auction. From a duo [...] Viva Cuba looks to Cuba, Missouri’s history when choosing subjects for murals.The corner where Hayes Shoe Store sets has such a history. At one time a general merchandise store called Prosperity Corner sat there. H.H. Tieman, who has a story of his own, owned the store, which later burned.When Viva Cuba [...] MoDOT films Cuba’s Adopt-a-Highway Project A film crew attracted attention in Cuba during their filming along Hwy. 19 in 2008.To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Adopt-A-Highway program, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s community relations staff visited Cuba to interview and film Viva Cuba, the first group to join the statewide program. During the [...] Trolley Tours and Chili Cook-Off on the 3rd weekend of October During the annual Cuba Fest, the 3rd weekend in October, Viva Cuba members provide narrated tours of the murals aboard a 1904-style motorized trolley.The bright red trolley is a fun way to find out more about the “Route 66 Mural City.” Board the [...] It is not unusual to see visitors to town carrying cameras and mural brochures as they walk the streets of Cuba along the Route 66 corridor looking at the murals. A Viva Cuba member pauses in her flower planting to give [...] From the beginning Viva Cuba thought it was important to include young people in the mural project so that they would feel ownership of the town’s art and history. With that in mind, Viva Cuba prepared a written curriculum for each of the murals that tells the story behind each mural.A vocabulary section, a [...] |
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