Unclaimed Baggage’s 50th anniversary celebration, with a planned nationwide road tour, will get started later this month.

The Scottsboro business, which offers customers a chance to find bargains from baggage lost in transit, will host special events March 20 and 21 at the store. Plans include giveaways, games, food trucks and live entertainment by the Cumberland Mountain Boys Bluegrass Band.

The road tour also begins that day with the unveiling of the tour vehicle - a restored 1965 Chevrolet pickup with a custom-made “luggage pile” in the truck bed. The truck will feature a mobile museum with some of the store’s most fascinating finds. The truck is modeled after founder Doyle Owens’ original, which he borrowed to drive to Washington, D.C. to purchase his first load of Unclaimed Baggage from Trailways Bus Lines.

Other specials on March 20 will be $50 gift card drawings, and a Love Luggage painting activity to benefit foster children. On March 21, the celebration will continue throughout the afternoon with more games, giveaways, live entertainment and food trucks. Love Luggage painting will happen at 3 p.m.

The first 50 guests to arrive on Friday and Saturday will receive 50th Anniversary T-shirts.

Heading out from Scottsboro, the road tour will stop in several southern cities, including Huntsville, Birmingham, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis. Many stops will coincide with major festivals where attendees can participate in unique experiences, including Finders Keepers and the Baggage Experience.

Fans can track the road trip by following #50years50states and catch the truck at some of the nation’s most unusual roadside attractions.

About one million shoppers annually come to the Scottsboro store, which has 50,000 square feet of merchandise. The airlines say only about .0003 percent of the billion or so passenger bags checked in every year are deemed truly lost, and only after a 90-day baggage tracing process.