I patronized that service staton in 1972 and 1973. At that time, Interstate 40 ended at Glenrio and resumed further west in New Mexico. Did not know of the dark energy then, but the town was deffinatly on the way down. Thank for the memories.
@watthairston1483 Did you know Kris and Kike? Kike used to be the postmaster. Had a section of land not to far from there. I spent a summer there about that time.
I remember when it was a long distance phone call, to call across the street at one friends house. The street was on the line of two towns and years back the phone company just had a set of zones, anywhere outside the zone your house was in meant long distance. (this was decades ago) The zone they were in ended at the town border, which was literally the middle of the road in front of their house. edit: The street had a fitting name as well, Division Street.
@@TrialzGTAS I don't know the billing details. So it is entirely possible that they weren't being charged the long distance rates for those specific phone calls. I just know that back when you only needed 123-4567 to reach a local number, you had to dial 1 and the area code to call a house that was like a tenth of a mile down the road, on the other side of the street. (quite literally just a minute walk away) Remember, long distance calling was still considered irregular (for lack of a better term) up through the 90s at the least. And the time that I was referring to was at the end of the 90s. The late 90s and early aughts were really when phone companies started to really replace tons of that old analog stuff that had been around since they phased out human telephone operators (at least in my region). To the best of my knowledge, it was in the early aughts that stuff changed at my friends house. btw, Is it even possible to get local only plans in the US anymore? I had one as a broke college student almost 25 years ago. Can't say I've heard of one since. My current phone company (landline) essentially considers the entirety of North America as local. Extra charges only apply to international calls excluding Mexico and Canada.
@@TrialzGTAS it was a different time. I live in the Phoenix area, and I read where it was once literally a long-distance call to call Glendale from Scottsdale and vice versa.
Come on Socash, why the hell was this killer pardoned only 4 yrs later. Clearly there is a story there. Who did he know? What do the pardon documents say?
I get very angry when they let killers go like that and they treat that poor ladies life as worthless rag, it’s a real slap in the face, all the morally superior people never give a damn about the victims
When Glenrio was founded, New Mexico was not a state. It was a unincorporated community and never a municipality so it couldn't have a true local government and had to be governed by the 2 counties where it lies.
Traveling West from Amarillo into New Mexico, there are a lot of abandoned buildings a few hundred yards off the I-40 right of way where Rt 66 was very close.
In Texas, the state required every railroad operating in the state to have its headquarters there back in the late 1800’s. So every major railroad that operated there had a different name from the main company’s, so Chicago, Rock island and Pacific’s Texas subsidiary was called the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe’s subsidiary in Texas started out as the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway.
@@ralfie8801 your only party right. The railroads operating in Texas were not required be based there. However in the State constitution a railroad wishing to cross into Texas and or build there had to have the state's name incorporated into the railroads name i.e. Texas Mexican RR, Missouri Kansas & Texas RR and so on.
@@onrr1726 Then explain the Gulf, Colorado, & Santa Fe Railway. It doesn’t have the state’s name in it, but was a subsidiary of the ATSF so they could build in Texas. They started in Galveston and built north and west. In 1853 the Texas legislature decided that all railroads operating in Texas should be headquartered there, and Railroads in Texas were required to be headquartered in the state, and that was included in the 1876 constitution as section 3 of article X, thus you have the out of state roads like ATSF and CRIP operating there as GCSF and CRIG, subsidiaries of the big roads with different names and their headquarters in Texas.
January of 71, our family was moving to North Carolina and was stranded at the Longhorn Motel for 3 days becuse one of our cars blew a freeze plug. Part had to come from Dallas. It was so cold my ears would freeze walking from the coffee shop to the motel room.
When traveling out West and you come to the edge of a town low on gas, remember to fill up before you leave as there are no towns in between like here in The Great Industrial Northeast. And those towns can be a hundred miles apart!
I remember all of 66 from Texas to California and back to Texas back to California back to Texas. I was a kid and had no choice. I remember riding up next to the back window so I could stretch out and sleep. All of those small so called historical Root 66 small towns gave the meaning to highway robbery. So glad they built the international freeways. It was a two lane road. So much bumber to bumper traffic.
Hi Professor, GREAT subject matter, I think I had rode or drove Route 66 about 15 times going back and forth from Atlanta to the SF Bay area and from SF to Atlanta, Ya left Atlanta Ga back in 1956 parents pack up the 49 Packer and headed to the SF Bay Area, stay safe and be at peace until your next Its History...
You didn't mention or show the Glenrio smoke shop that is the only business open in town. On google earth street view, it is between the motel and the post office just over the border on the New Mexico side. It looks pretty modern with cars in the parking lot and someone out front waving at the google earth camera.
@@lesdabney2144 it's a very nice store and last time we checked doing very well. First place to purchase legal cannabis in NM if you're traveling west through the Texas panhandle.
The main road through town runs east-west, there are two huge casinos, one on either side of the road, built right up to the very edge of Nevada with their parking lots in Arizona.
Lots of missed history, theres been nearly 20 people that have been found unalived involuntarily...not just the bar maid... The newest movie is some zombie apocalypse movie it was on TH-cam at onetime ...the opening of the movie takes place in the building by the Pontiac... Or maybe it was Mule With clint Eastwood.. I cant remember which filmed first... Most of route 66 is under i-40 it got bypassed because the railrooad pissed of don Harrington a texas millionaire and he discovered that the railroad didn't actually own the land it was built on...the XIT RANCH did...guess who bought the longest ranch in Texas...it was 100 ft wide and a few hundres miles long....but its who BNSF operates just south of i-40 and Up north
Williamson, WV and South Williamson, KY have a similar relationship. State sales tax is cheaper in KY so that's where the Walmart and Save-A-Lot are located.
My question is, with the renewed interested in old 66, why can’t some of these old places be revitalized to what they were back in the day. There are plenty of retired people that would love to live there.
There's been some places that have done that. Williams, AZ comes to mind. I recommend the rail trip to the Grand Canyon from there. Oklahoma has a few spots as well. I'm sure there's more.
As it did with so many others. Even if the road had managed to hang on a while longer the town would have most likely died as the Rock Island Railroad (CRI&P) went belly up and abruptly shut down after a long slow death in bankruptcy in the early 1980's. Other Railroads that also suffered the same fate were the Milwaukee Road in 1985.
Although not ghost towns, there are quite a few places in Europe where the border between two nations passes through a town, for example with the Netherlands on one side and Germany on the other, with their very different attitudes to things like recreational drugs. And in Ireland, where the border between North and South is far from a straight line, there are even some houses where part is in the Republic and part is in Northern Ireland - and since Brexit that means that part is in the EU and part is not.
For the record border towns aren’t an unusual thing, I’ve lived in 2 in my life so far Bluefield Virginia/West Virginia and Bristol Tennessee/ Virginia. My guess is it depends on how the two states handle the border towns
Or the interstate. There's plenty of places where 66 was torn out and now follows 40 instead of being next to it. But there's plenty more where it's literally right next to it. There was no excuse to cut off towns by putting the freeways just far enough away from them to keep people from stopping there when they plow through the literal middle of some towns, actually removing existing homes and streets and routing them around it.
No way I'm going to use a closed-source browser developed by a Chinese-owned company. Also, "Armarillo"? I like these videos, but can't Ryan try a little harder?
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Did you REALLY say "Arma-illo" and "Vegas" instead of Amarillo and Vega? Dude.
As a truck driver- I've pulled off at this exit and walked around quite a bit. A nice quiet place to take a break. Sadly it's all abandoned now
I patronized that service staton in 1972 and 1973. At that time, Interstate 40 ended at Glenrio and resumed further west in New Mexico. Did not know of the dark energy then, but the town was deffinatly on the way down.
Thank for the memories.
@watthairston1483 Did you know Kris and Kike? Kike used to be the postmaster. Had a section of land not to far from there.
I spent a summer there about that time.
That's really cool. I visited and filmed a documentary on Glenrio a while back. It's a spooky place.
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Glen Rio has a state-line Dispensary now, so it's got people getting off the interstate again. It's a pretty neat place in general.
lol, i totally recognized the gas station from "cars"! 😎👍
Do East St Louis, Illinois. Its such a weird board city that is just in ruins these days (and yes I have suggested this twice before)
There's no "East St Louis" in Kansas
@@relaws52 My mistake I was thinking of Kansas City that also is a border city.
I filmed a documentary on the Spivey (an abandoned skyscraper) and East St Louis. It's a very interesting place.
Naw, I’ll pass.
I remember when it was a long distance phone call, to call across the street at one friends house. The street was on the line of two towns and years back the phone company just had a set of zones, anywhere outside the zone your house was in meant long distance. (this was decades ago) The zone they were in ended at the town border, which was literally the middle of the road in front of their house.
edit: The street had a fitting name as well, Division Street.
That’s insane. Maybe setting a radius per residence was too much work then
@@TrialzGTAS I don't know the billing details. So it is entirely possible that they weren't being charged the long distance rates for those specific phone calls. I just know that back when you only needed 123-4567 to reach a local number, you had to dial 1 and the area code to call a house that was like a tenth of a mile down the road, on the other side of the street. (quite literally just a minute walk away)
Remember, long distance calling was still considered irregular (for lack of a better term) up through the 90s at the least. And the time that I was referring to was at the end of the 90s. The late 90s and early aughts were really when phone companies started to really replace tons of that old analog stuff that had been around since they phased out human telephone operators (at least in my region). To the best of my knowledge, it was in the early aughts that stuff changed at my friends house.
btw, Is it even possible to get local only plans in the US anymore? I had one as a broke college student almost 25 years ago. Can't say I've heard of one since. My current phone company (landline) essentially considers the entirety of North America as local. Extra charges only apply to international calls excluding Mexico and Canada.
@@TrialzGTAS it was a different time. I live in the Phoenix area, and I read where it was once literally a long-distance call to call Glendale from Scottsdale and vice versa.
@@JL-sm6cg literally the other side of Phoenix 😂😅 gotta love it
That was the case even 15 years ago!! Phone companies were so greedy it was so expensive to call long distance!!
Come on Socash, why the hell was this killer pardoned only 4 yrs later. Clearly there is a story there. Who did he know? What do the pardon documents say?
Is this a murder mystery channel now? Didn't realize it was.
My Grandmother ran the Cedar Hill Gas station between San Jon and Tucumcari. ❤ Route 66 has a lot of love.
My Dad had a white 1968 Pontiac Catalina just like this one back in the late 70's. That car was MASSIVE!
I get very angry when they let killers go like that and they treat that poor ladies life as worthless rag, it’s a real slap in the face, all the morally superior people never give a damn about the victims
Politics were a little more liberal in Texas back then. It would be quite different now.
@@charleshaggard4341 BS what are you even talking about.
Somebody probably used the guy as slave labor on their Texas dirt farm!!
When Glenrio was founded, New Mexico was not a state. It was a unincorporated community and never a municipality so it couldn't have a true local government and had to be governed by the 2 counties where it lies.
Good observation
I thought Oldham county was wet?
AM-arillo, not ARM-arillo.
Armadillo 😂
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who cares
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@RonD937 You really thought that was clever didn't you? 😭 How pathetic
Traveling West from Amarillo into New Mexico, there are a lot of abandoned buildings a few hundred yards off the I-40 right of way where Rt 66 was very close.
It's the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific (CRI&P) Railroad.
In Texas, the state required every railroad operating in the state to have its headquarters there back in the late 1800’s. So every major railroad that operated there had a different name from the main company’s, so Chicago, Rock island and Pacific’s Texas subsidiary was called the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe’s subsidiary in Texas started out as the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway.
@@ralfie8801 your only party right. The railroads operating in Texas were not required be based there. However in the State constitution a railroad wishing to cross into Texas and or build there had to have the state's name incorporated into the railroads name i.e. Texas Mexican RR, Missouri Kansas & Texas RR and so on.
@@onrr1726
Then explain the Gulf, Colorado, & Santa Fe Railway. It doesn’t have the state’s name in it, but was a subsidiary of the ATSF so they could build in Texas. They started in Galveston and built north and west. In 1853 the Texas legislature decided that all railroads operating in Texas should be headquartered there, and Railroads in Texas were required to be headquartered in the state, and that was included in the 1876 constitution as section 3 of article X, thus you have the out of state roads like ATSF and CRIP operating there as GCSF and CRIG, subsidiaries of the big roads with different names and their headquarters in Texas.
I Filmed a documentary on Glenrio a few years back. It was a cool place to visit
January of 71, our family was moving to North Carolina and was stranded at the Longhorn Motel for 3 days becuse one of our cars blew a freeze plug. Part had to come from Dallas. It was so cold my ears would freeze walking from the coffee shop to the motel room.
Well told story. Interesting place. You are a good presenter. A+
I always look forward to your videos!
Love the History and Buildings .... Keep them Comin ....
How about some South Jersey and North Carolina
Sites ??
When traveling out West and you come to the edge of a town low on gas, remember to fill up before you leave as there are no towns in between like here in The Great Industrial Northeast.
And those towns can be a hundred miles apart!
I absolutely love stuff like this.
Glenrio is east of Tucumcari, and west of Amarillo. Time stamp 3:00. Great video.
It is also south of 40 and not east.
Yeah. West of NM and East of Texas didn’t make sense :)
All of your videos are informative and interesting but this one is in the top 5%>. Great job
So, on Friday nights, do the ghosts pile into the '68 Bonneville and go cruising up and down the main drag?
I remember all of 66 from Texas to California and back to Texas back to California back to Texas. I was a kid and had no choice. I remember riding up next to the back window so I could stretch out and sleep. All of those small so called historical Root 66 small towns gave the meaning to highway robbery. So glad they built the international freeways. It was a two lane road. So much bumber to bumper traffic.
Interstate highways
If you get time to look at could look at property on the Fla/Ala line AKA Flora-Bams and it's 60 year history.
Hi Professor, GREAT subject matter, I think I had rode or drove Route 66 about 15 times going back and forth from Atlanta to the SF Bay area and from SF to Atlanta, Ya left Atlanta Ga back in 1956 parents pack up the 49 Packer and headed to the SF Bay Area, stay safe and be at peace until your next Its History...
It would be helpful if you were to put all the Route 66 Videos in a playlist.
Lived in Adrian from 66-71... Went 2-3 times a month to eat at the cafe. Always so good! Also Roxanne is my sil ...
You didn't mention or show the Glenrio smoke shop that is the only business open in town. On google earth street view, it is between the motel and the post office just over the border on the New Mexico side. It looks pretty modern with cars in the parking lot and someone out front waving at the google earth camera.
I checked that out. It appears to be a weed shop... I wonder what the search rate on I-40 on the TX side is?
@@lesdabney2144 it's a very nice store and last time we checked doing very well. First place to purchase legal cannabis in NM if you're traveling west through the Texas panhandle.
Reminds me of my hometown of McDermitt, NV-OR.
The state line bar is not abandoned it's a dispensary now.
Great video
Wendover UT and West Wendover NV are a study in contrasts due to the legality of gambling on the Nevada side.
The main road through town runs east-west, there are two huge casinos, one on either side of the road, built right up to the very edge of Nevada with their parking lots in Arizona.
That Motel / Cafe has a 3 sided sign pole exactly like those used at Phillips 66 gas stations.
Very good, thanks
Lots of missed history, theres been nearly 20 people that have been found unalived involuntarily...not just the bar maid...
The newest movie is some zombie apocalypse movie it was on TH-cam at onetime ...the opening of the movie takes place in the building by the Pontiac...
Or maybe it was Mule With clint Eastwood..
I cant remember which filmed first...
Most of route 66 is under i-40 it got bypassed because the railrooad pissed of don Harrington a texas millionaire and he discovered that the railroad didn't actually own the land it was built on...the XIT RANCH did...guess who bought the longest ranch in Texas...it was 100 ft wide and a few hundres miles long....but its who BNSF operates just south of i-40 and Up north
Williamson, WV and South Williamson, KY have a similar relationship. State sales tax is cheaper in KY so that's where the Walmart and Save-A-Lot are located.
This seems to be a location of reference for the movie "Cars"
Celto-Romance term for "River of the Valley"
My question is, with the renewed interested in old 66, why can’t some of these old places be revitalized to what they were back in the day. There are plenty of retired people that would love to live there.
There's been some places that have done that. Williams, AZ comes to mind. I recommend the rail trip to the Grand Canyon from there. Oklahoma has a few spots as well. I'm sure there's more.
A stroke of a pen in Washington DC doomed the town.
As it did with so many others. Even if the road had managed to hang on a while longer the town would have most likely died as the Rock Island Railroad (CRI&P) went belly up and abruptly shut down after a long slow death in bankruptcy in the early 1980's. Other Railroads that also suffered the same fate were the Milwaukee Road in 1985.
OTOH, a different stroke of a pen in Washington, DC is what gave it life in the first place.
Repugnantones only cared about profits over people.
Checks out!
Although not ghost towns, there are quite a few places in Europe where the border between two nations passes through a town, for example with the Netherlands on one side and Germany on the other, with their very different attitudes to things like recreational drugs.
And in Ireland, where the border between North and South is far from a straight line, there are even some houses where part is in the Republic and part is in Northern Ireland - and since Brexit that means that part is in the EU and part is not.
Thanks!
Next do Wendover/West Wendover UT/NV.
That's a good one.
Ever heard of Rt 44? Starts at the Mayflower replica and goes to Oklahoma City. Very long highway.
It's east of Tucumcari and west of Amarillo...
2:25
The Rock Island Railroad line thru town was abandoned in 1980 after the railroad went bankrupt.
I know that the property taxes are a lot lower in New Mexico.........
Very cool share🏚
That old lady running was a choice
There is a great head shop there
16:44 you never mentioned the Weed Store that’s there now.
I get the feeling like the movie Cars was based off this story
For the record border towns aren’t an unusual thing, I’ve lived in 2 in my life so far Bluefield Virginia/West Virginia and Bristol Tennessee/ Virginia.
My guess is it depends on how the two states handle the border towns
Me: Wow, this town sounds a lot like the plot of the movie "Cars"!
16:15: ...
I just need to live in an old gas station with two hoists in side and one out side under the shade
Whilst it's now a ghost town, it's by far the only town divided by a state line. Texarkana, TX/AR comes to mind.
Glenrio is west of Amarillo and east of Tucumcari. You got that backwards.
Texarkana is another town that is in two different states. I believe there was an unsolved murder there.
That’s what you call progress.
Deneo, Nevada.
2:51 CRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP hahhahaha
Ive been using opera for a good decade. Beta tested Aria. Glad to see you came to the functional side of things🎉
the rock the rock the rock island railroad baby :D
The town was just a quarter mile from the interstate. They could have just move the town .
Maybe even put new businesses there that would get people off the freeway and patronize.
Or the interstate. There's plenty of places where 66 was torn out and now follows 40 instead of being next to it. But there's plenty more where it's literally right next to it. There was no excuse to cut off towns by putting the freeways just far enough away from them to keep people from stopping there when they plow through the literal middle of some towns, actually removing existing homes and streets and routing them around it.
Been here, pretty sure the only business here is a weed store.
I'm sorry, did I just hear this psycho that was guilty of robbery and murder got pardoned?!?!?!?
What the hell is that klunking noise in the background in the beginning of the video?
missed a trick by not playing Lead belly's Rock Island line song at the start of the video
Do seashore lines cape may county
10:04 the i40 business loop at Glenrio is a joke
Good video but butchered just about every city name. Lol
No way I'm going to use a closed-source browser developed by a Chinese-owned company.
Also, "Armarillo"? I like these videos, but can't Ryan try a little harder?
Very cool thanks! Need to watch the Grapes of Wrath now - what a challenging time! 🏜️
I wish I could afford to bring that town back to life.