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Bureau of Indian Affairs, Hualapai Indian Reservation, Valentine, Arizona.
Essentially only a house for a bus stop for the children of the employees of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Valentine, Arizona is populated primarily by BIA employees and is located a few miles outside of the actual Haulapai Indian Reservation. The original Route 66 actually traverses a portion of the Indian Reservation and is now governed by the Haulapai Reservation Police and not the Arizona State Police.
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Oatman, Arizona.
The main street, and only street, of Oatman, Arizona. Don't let the line of cars fool you. Burros outnumbered the cars 2-1. Notice the old buildings and streetlights. Driving into Oatman is like stepping into a time machine.
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Needles, California..
The new reality of Route 66. The 66 Motel sign, showing vacancy, points to a hotel no longer in business. The hotel is still kept up rather nice by the owners, but is no longer in use. Just behind the sign is another sign, painted over in white, pointing to another place which is no longer in business. Both of these are right next to the Historic Route 66 roadway.
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McLean, Texas.
"The Heart of Old 66". The original Route 66 is the main street of this town. It is one of the few remaining divided highway portions of Route 66. Many states have closed one direction of the divided highway and made it a two lane road. This is an excellent example of the divided highway which used to run right through the center of many towns. |
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Granny's Kitchen/Neon Soda Saloon, Central New Mexico.
"California Or Bust. Route 66 All The Way. The Mother Road". A replication of the famous jalopies that once stretched from Chicago to California during the great job rush of the 1930s. California was to be the promised land, filled with jobs, and opportunities. A truck like this was a very common site on the original Route 66. |
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Western New Mexico.
The Lava Beds. That's right, lava beds. At one time, the desert area of New Mexico had volcanic activity. These lava beds stretch for miles in all directions. The western part of the state has the largest lava bed, but there are smaller ones all along the route. The lava is now black and looks like hardened tar - or just giant chunks of very dark pavement. |
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Petrified Forest, Arizona.
The petrified landscape combining the petrified trees and the Painted Desert. Each of those boulder-like objects is actually a petrified tree trunk. Each one closely resembles a geode. Scientific evidence suggests that this area of the desert was at one time filled with vegetation and rivers. Over time the rains stopped, the trees died and fell into the rivers, the rivers dried up, and a desert was created leaving the petrified forest as the only link to the ancient fertile land. The Petrified Forest is a National Park closely monitored. It is illegal to remove anything from the Petrified Forest.
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