I get these stories from the Route 66 News site, your best source for any and everything you can want to know about our Mother Road. I just write about the stories of most interest to me.
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JULY 2-- Fire destroyed the long-closed Palmer Hotel in Afton, Oklahoma. It once featured hot and cold running water in EACH room and electric lights throughout the building. And, all for the cost of $2 a day.
It is believed to have opened in Mid-March of 1910.
It was just sitting there slowly deteriorating every time we saw while visiting the Afton Station across from it. Poor Afton. Hope something can be done to stop its slide into obscurity, especially now that the Afton Station is gone.
JULY 2-- New Mexico imposed a 14-day quarantine to all travelers entering from other states.
Definitely doesn't help Route 66 tourism, but these are trying times. (Oops, must take a shot. Whenever you hear a news cast or commercial with any words and then the word "times," you have to take a drink.)
Real Challenging Times These Day. (Oops, another shot.) --RoadShot
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