Route 66 and the Internet

Traveling this road is a trip into the past.  The cars, the motels and the stories make this trip really fun.  What isn't fun is connecting; not to the past but the internet!

We left Kingman on Tuesday morning but not before checking out the Powerhouse Visitor Center.  A generating station first started in 1906 generating power from Hoover Dam.

Photo op.

Winding up the Mother Road brought us to the Hackberry General Store.  Yet another stop that was bypassed by Highway 40.  

I'm beginning to see a theme with these stops...

One cool thing were the old Burma Shave sign posts that were prevalent along Route 66.

Big Mistake..Many Make..Using the Horn..Not the Brake..Burma Shave

And lastly, Greyhound had to change their bus routes and leave the Hackberry stop behind.

The white sign in the middle of this picture.

Seligman, a thriving town after WWII, would have five to 9,000 vehicles come through its main street in the mid 1950's.  In September of 1957, that came to a screeching halt with the passing of Eisenhower's signing of National Highway Bill and the opening of Highway 40.  One truth, there were no highway signs on 40 even mentioning the town of Seligman.

We ended our day in a town celebrated in song, Winslow.  Or, as we learned by a native of this town, Win-Slow.

to be continued...