Albert Okura, ‘Chicken Man’ Who Saved a Ghost Town, Dies at 71
The gas station reopened in 2008, and its balky sign was lit again in 2019. Mr. Okura “did more for California’s Route 66 than any other person in preservation,” Beth Murray, a photographer, wrote on Facebook. “We have lost someone who saw a goal and made it happen, saw a town and made it prosper,…