Posts Tagged ‘gas station’
Two-Lane Tidbit: State Line Truck Stop and Cafe, Pine Bluffs, WY
The former State Line Truck Stop and Cafe sits along the Lincoln Highway straddling the Nebraska-Wyoming border just outside the town of Pine Bluffs, WY. Closed and abandoned since the early 1990s, this one has been on our bucket list for quite some time. It was one of the most prominent stations along the 1913…
Read MorePaint On, Drop In, Pig Out: Route 66 in Texas
Mention the Texas Panhandle and most people will likely envision wind sweeping across wide open fields of, well, nothing. Life on the Llano Estacado, or the Staked Plains, is not for the meek, with hot summers, cold winters, little rainfall, tornadoes, and dust storms. Constructed following the path of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific…
Read MoreA Whale of a Good Time: Route 66 in Oklahoma
Home of the “Father of Route 66” and the place where the idea for America’s most famous road was conceived, it is fitting that Oklahoma contains the most still-drivable miles of any state, with more than 400 still in service. From a gas station purportedly once visited by Bonnie and Clyde to a giant blue…
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