Ride into Route 66 Summerfest
FOR DIEGO LUCERO, deputy director of the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts & Culture, this year’s Route 66 Summerfest will feel like walking through the evolution of the Mother Road. With four…
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Guided Tours Along Route 66
ACOMA PUEBLO ALONG ROUTE 66 Acoma Pueblo was settled atop a 367-foot sandstone mesa nearly a millennia before nearby Route 66 came through. A 90-minute guided tour from the Sky City Cultural Center…
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Where Route 66 Still Moves
ON A WEEKEND NIGHT on Central Avenue, Route 66 does not feel historic. It feels active. Cars move slowly beneath old motel signs and storefront lights, an Impala rolling low, a Monte Carlo on wire…
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Route 66 Through Vintage Postcards
TUCUMCARI MOUNTAIN (ABOVE), 1938 “This card is pure Americana,” Lambert says. “As indicated by the messages on many other cards, heading west on Route 66 and seeing Tucumcari Mountain for the first…
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Party Central on Route 66
KNOWN TO MANY as “Mrs. Tucumcari,” Bettie Ditto owned the Best Western Pow Wow Inn for more than 50 years. Her brother and sister-in-law, Tom and Helen Lins, opened the adjacent Pow Wow Room that…
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100 Years of Route 66 in New Mexico
THE ORIGIN STORY When Route 66 officially opened on November 11, 1926, the roughly 2,448-mile highway linking Chicago and Los Angeles was pieced together from a patchwork of existing, mostly unpaved…
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Editor’s Letter: Hit the Road
POPSICLE HAPPY HOUR starts promptly at 4 p.m. at Hotel Zazz—and I wasn’t about to be late. It had been years since I’d enjoyed one of the frozen treats, so a few minutes beforehand, I made my way to…
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Route 66 Revival at the Imperial Inn
IT’S ONE OF THOSE neon-lit nights on Albuquerque’s Route 66 when downtown hums with evening energy. Enter me, checking into a stark white 1960s Imperial Inn, located a mile away in the Duke City’s…
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Cruise Route 66 Through Central New Mexico
THE SMALL TOWNS AND BRIGHT CITIES strung together by historic Route 66 in central New Mexico still harbor gems of yesteryear that flash from the roadside. Some Route 66 enthusiasts argue that one of…
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