Showing posts with label Ozark Trail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ozark Trail. Show all posts

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Tucumcari Motel sign emerges from the ashes

Before the fire (Sixgun Siding)

(Route 66 News) The last time most people saw the old Tucumcari Motel sign near downtown Tucumcari, New Mexico, the long-closed business was destroyed by a suspected arson fire about three years ago.
Because it stood about 20 feet from the building, the fire left the neon sign for the motel unscathed. Locals hauled away the sign a few days after that, and nothing more was heard about it. Continued

Sunday, April 15, 2012

The Ozark Trail


Ozark Trail Marker, Tucumcari, NM (drivetheost.com) vintage postcard
(wellingtontx.com) The Ozark Trails had nothing to do with cowboys or Indians, cattle drives or covered wagons. It was a good roads organization in the early days of automobile travel. The Ozark Trails Association was an organization of public-spirited good roads men to promote better roads and mark them for the convenience of travel. It did not make the roads. Businessmen supported the Ozark Trails to encourage tourism through their town knowing that people would stop to buy gasoline, food and other things.
Wellington was actually connected to the Ozark Trails from the east through Altus and Hollis, then Wellington and also from Chickasha, Hobart, Mangum and Vinson. The westward trails were through Amarillo, Tucumcari and Santa Rosa and through Childress, Plainview, Littlefield and Roswell. Continued

Photo: Ozark Trail Marker, Tucumcari, NM (drivetheost.com)