THE DINÉ ARTIST and first-place winner in the 2025 MIT Reality Hack competition founded Glittering World Girl to use technology to foster cultural revitalization. As part of the Route 66 Remixed…
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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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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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The Other Route 66: 100 Years of People, Identity, and Place in Albuquerque June 6–January 3, 2027 “What is a road without people traveling on it?” asks Alicia Romero, head curator at Albuquerque…
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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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FOR A GREEN CHILE CHEESEBURGER Housed in a 1913 adobe that was a former trading post, Bibo Bar & Grille serves up some of the spiciest green chile cheeseburgers west of the Río Grande. The authentic…
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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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1 Picture Route 66. On Sunday, a new exhibition takes over the open-air gallery at Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza. Sunday on Central Avenue features nine works by three photographers— Gabriela Campos…
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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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SPOKES ON 66 CAR SHOW June 5–6 Grants puts the pedal down on summer with the full-throttle Route 66 celebration June 5–6. “We are hoping to get 200 cars this year,” says event coordinator Jose Garcia…
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