{"id":2966,"date":"2023-10-24T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2023-10-24T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T22:02:45","slug":"tucumcari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/tucumcari\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucumcari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tucumcari is so much fun it deserves a post for itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Wikipedia<\/a>, in 1901, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad built a construction camp in the western portion of modern-day Quay County. Originally called Ragtown, the camp became known as “Six Shooter Siding”, due to numerous gunfights. It was renamed Tucumcari in 1908. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We start off with our favorite place, the Blue Swallow Motel, with a night shot and a daytime shot. Most of these photos were taken in September 2021. Click on any image to see a larger view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mural on the Blue Swallow Motel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tucumcari Welcome Mural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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There are several old gas stations with murals and antiques and of course lots of gift shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Restored Magnolia Gas Station, with murals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Restored Texaco Gas Station with old fixtures and murals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Many of the buildings have murals and most of them are in pretty good shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was originally the Mesa Court(s) a small motel that later became the Kiva Motel & RV Park which in turn became Historic Route 66 RV Park and may now be closed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And then there are these…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information about Tucumcari, try the Legends of America<\/a> page for the town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tucumcari is so much fun it deserves a post for itself. According to Wikipedia, in 1901, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad built a construction camp in the western portion of modern-day Quay County. Originally called Ragtown, the camp became known as “Six Shooter Siding”, due to numerous gunfights. It was renamed Tucumcari in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backroads","category-history","category-route-66","category-tourism"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichollsphoto.com\/npblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}