#route66: An Eagles Song Is Remembered In The Arizona Town It Made Famous

Take it easy in Winslow’s corner plaza. It’s such a fine sight to see.

by Rich Watson 

Route 66, on its way west to California, passes through a small town in Arizona called Winslow. Its regional airport was designed by Charles Lindbergh and the first Native American woman elected to Congress came from Winslow.

Chances are you’ve heard of the town, though, thanks to a song from the seventies by one of rock and roll’s greatest bands: the Eagles.

#route66: The El Rancho Hotel Was the Headquarters For the Movie “Ace In the Hole”

This Hollywood hotspot was the base for a notable film by a legendary writer-director.

by Rich Watson 

Funny bit of trivia about Gallup, New Mexico: Route 66 passes through it, but so does another highway which used to be called Highway 666. In 2003 the New Mexico governor got the name changed because of the satanic associations with the 666 number.

You’ll find no demons, however, at Gallup’s most notable lodging: the El Rancho Hotel.

Only the ghosts of old Hollywood.

The #route66 Art Installation “Cadillac Ranch” and the Culture of Cadillac Cars

The row of cars embedded in the Texas panhandle symbolize America’s love of Cadillacs.

by Rich Watson 

In Amarillo, Texas, amidst a wide and barren patch of dirt along Route 66, a row of ten Cadillac cars are half buried in the earth. 

The area isn’t a parking lot, nor is it a junkyard. The cars are painted haphazardly in all sorts of colors and they remind you of ostriches with their heads in the sand.

It’s art.