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It's worth stopping at the diner directly opposite the large sign. The food is typical of a diner, very tasty and the staff is nice. From inside, the diner looks exactly like you would imagine a typical American diner from the movies.

The Texas Panhandle is a flat and windy place, but here you pass the midpoint of Route 66. Congratulate yourself on making it this far!

New Mexico- Texas Border on Route66

Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari The motel with one of the prettiest neon signs went into operation in 1939. It was run by a true Route 66 legend, Lillian Redman, who previously worked at Santa Fe's famed Harvey Houses. In 1998 it was taken over by Hilda and Dale Bakke. Without a doubt, the motel with the blue swallow (Blue Swallow) comes from a time when people still traveled with real road cruisers and motels were individual and not off the peg like today's chain motels. For example, each room has its own car garage. Actually a must for every Route 66 traveler to spend the night here

When the town was founded by the Rock Island and Gulf Railway in 1903, it was simply called "Rock Island" until it was changed to Glenrio in 1908, derived from the Scottish term "Glen" for "small valley" and the Spanish "rio". for "river", although it is neither in a valley nor on a river. The New Mexico-Texas state line runs right through Glenrio, leading to some oddities. The mail (1935-1985) belonged to New Mexico, but was delivered and sorted at the train station on the Texas side. There were no bars on the Texan side because alcohol was not allowed to be served in that part of Texas, while the gas stations were only on the Texan side because of the higher gasoline tax in New Mexico. In addition, the time zone boundary between Central Time (Texas) and Mountain Time (New Mexico) runs here. Although never more than 30 people lived here, it even published its own newspaper until 1934. Only during the shooting of "The Fruits of Wrath" in 1939 did the place have significantly more "residents". In 1913 the Ozark Trail was built from Amarillo towards Las Vegas, which was later integrated into Route 66. In 1938 the road was completely paved. In the 1950s, it was expanded to four lanes even in Glenrio, with large cement blocks as direction dividers, before the city's demise was heralded in 1955 with the abandonment of the railway. The final death knell came in 1973 when the Interstate was completed. Gradually all businesses were closed. The Post survived the longest. It was only abandoned in 1985 when only 2 residents lived in the town. In 2008, the Glenrio Welcome Center opened on the interstate and was designed for one million visitors per year. That would be 2739 per day.

In 1901 the Rock Island Railroad established a camp for the construction crew here in what was popularly known as "Six Shooter Siding" after numerous shootings. Several settlements moved closer to the new railroad and enlarged the camp, which was officially called "Douglas", then from 1908 Tucumcari after the mountain of the same name. According to legends, the name comes from the unfulfilled love between Tocom and the chief's daughter Kari, who is said to have lost her beloved in a duel for tribal leadership and then took her own life. The chief's desperate exclamation "Tocom, Kari" echoed off the mountains, which now stand as a symbol of unrequited love. Other sources see the name as a modification of the word "view" from the language of the Comanche tribe. neon signs Tucumcari hasn't lost its 1940s charm over the years. Hardly any other city has so many glowing neon signs for the numerous restaurants and motels that line Route 66 like a string of pearls.

The Exhibit Hall at the Mesalands Community College’s Dinosaur Museum houses a host of replicated and original fossils from tiny footprint casts to the 40′ long skeleton Torvosaurus, a rare carnivore relative of Tyrannosaurus rex which hails from the Jurassic period. The Museum’s focus is on the Mesozoic period, which is also known as ‘The Age of Dinosaurs.’ The Mesozoic is comprised of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Adult (12-64) $8, it was free the day we came. https://www.mesalands.edu/community/dinosaur-museum/

A "must" on Route 66. The Blue Swallow Motel - a classic place to stay.