. >> a gumball machine over there. >> reporter: cecil stevens is the long-time owner of the route 66 i know every pipe. after 50 years you would have to repair half that stuff. >> reporter: that's right, a half century of an old hangout on route 66. steven bought the summit inn in 1966, shut down the motel and focused on food and the history of the famed route from chicago to the pacific ocean. he and his wife became the mom and pop stop for route 66 worshippers and locals. >> there's been many times i would sit at the bar right there having coffee when it was snowing and said, i'm not going to work. >> reporter: many celebrities rolled through here, too, including elvis presley. a jukebox didn't own one of his records. >> he said, maybe next time i come in here you'll have one of my records on. and you can believe when i came back, i went out and got a record right away and it was on the jukebox. >> reporter: music serenaded generations of people who pulled off the road to eat to the ostrich burger to the hillbilly burger. >> what is a hillbilly burger? >> it was a meal in itself. >