Preservation: Saving the Neighborhood

The Rock Café Rocks Back     If you’re getting your kicks on Route 66, stop in at the Rock Café in Stroud, Oklahoma. The popular diner reopened in late May, almost exactly a year after a fire gutted the place. The stone walls, made from rocks that workers excavated to build Route 66, was all that was left of the 1936 structure. But owner Dawn Welch—the model for the blue Porsche Sally in the animated flick Cars—wasn’t about to throw in the towel. Using funds from insurance, grants an