Route 66 - Whiting Brothers Ruins - San Fidel NM
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Route 66 - Whiting Brothers Ruins - San Fidel NM
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
One of the old neon signs from the Whiting Brothers Service Station and Motel on NM-124 AKA Route 66 between San Fidel and McCarty, New Mexico. The abandoned Whiting Brothers Gas Station ruins are seen in the background.
Whiting Brothers Gas Station number 39 was once part of a large complex built here in the 1940s. According to Jack Rittenhouse's, A Guidebook to Highway 66, first published in 1946, "two miles west of San Fidel: Chief's Rancho Café here, with gas, grocery, curios, and cafe."
Unfortunately, the buildings were lost in a fire sometime in the 1990s. All that remains is the front of this Whiting Brothers Gas Station. As a result, the arrow on the old Whiting Brothers sign located on the opposite side of Route 66 now points to an empty concrete slab.
This section of New Mexico Route 66 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Copyright 2022 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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February 22nd, 2022
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