The Forgotten Towns of Route 66 in New Mexico
Day 5 of my Route 66 trip across America . Visited Tinkertown Museum , Musical Road and checked out lots of vintage neon motel signs and mixed in a lot of abandoned towns and bizarre twists and turns along the drive
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welcome everyone Adam in the whoo here
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today number five of my road trip
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adventure directly across route 66 today
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starting in Albuquerque myself and Jacob
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the carpetbagger are heading east
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correct
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join us shall you as much as we want to
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hang around armless muffler man with a
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sweet stache got to be moving on we are
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in luck today
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the tinkertown museum is open featured
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on Antiques Roadshow
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Good Morning America and even MTV back
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in the late 90s and from the looks of it
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I think this place is going to be pretty
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dang awesome the structure itself is
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made out of bottles wedged in the side
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of the wall let's do this enter the goat
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enter enter the goat
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she's the strong silent type we're about
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to be told our fortune there will be
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those who will envy you and try to harm
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you but that's not good quite possibly
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one of the coolest freakin places seen
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press the button to see the Carpenters
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do a Laurel roofing they're building a
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house you got their hammers and working
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away Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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down there and the girl skipping-rope
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her name is Emily she has been doing it
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non-stop for forty five consecutive
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years isn't she tired some sort of demon
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pushing someone in a wheelchair in a
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classic cigar store Indian a lot of the
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stuff moves on its own like that long
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horn cow shifting its head and the guy
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next to him a lawyer
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get ready for it screwed him as a
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massive fight happening between that
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gentleman they're pulling him got Satan
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on one side and an angel of light on the
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other
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this is Boot Hill oh wait a second next
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to Abraham Lincoln Hitchcock would be
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proud
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circus oddities freak show happening in
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this display case I'm having a hard time
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wrapping my head around how incredibly
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awesome this whoa it's the freaking big
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top attempting to soak it all in
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far-left you have a clown with dogs
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jumping through hoops in the center
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you got the lion trainer and on the far
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right there's a woman being spun around
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having knives thrown at her 1981 Fritz
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damla heard the call of the universal
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freedom quit his job traded his house
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and bought a boat then proceeded to
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travel 80 thousand sea miles over ten
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years the voyage of the Theodora
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and there she is the boat itself just
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stationed here in the woods kind of
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reminds me of someone else who quit
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their job and started to travel all
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around me me oh yeah right both of us
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ticket to Graceland purchased by Snow
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White
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there she is with Elvis himself and she
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put this little disclaimer send the
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Prince back home i with the king and if
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you're wondering what that noise is it's
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so wishing well in the form of a oh oh
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mill
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even some old tools on site some wacky
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looking wrenches and down here ice tongs
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used to carry ice before refrigeration
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pick myself up a magnet can't leave
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without visiting or exiting through it's
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a gift shop some pins some teeny-tiny
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very teeny tiny babies and even even
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little rubber miniaturised rubber
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chickens the nail puzzle she's gonna do
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it come on this is the moment this is
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the moment for posterity yes
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nailed it I don't know about you but I
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really like this place
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me too it's tiger-tastic we got to be
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moving on now yes gotta be moving on
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moving right along be very quiet
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listen closely the musical highway Shh
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don't talk just listen
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hmmm that was it that was the musical
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highway was supposed to be America the
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beautiful kind of a fail
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Moriarty is one of the few remaining
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locations of the witting brothers
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mechanic shop this one still open for
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business just down a ways in Santa Rosa
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this abandoned service station truck
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stop also sweet neon up there first time
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in my life ever seeing a vehicle like
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that wow that's different very windy out
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at the real-life ghost town
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of Cuervo over time the roof has
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decomposed the shingles have all been
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blown off need to send out a package
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that's the post office right there the
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vastness of New Mexico
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for miles in that direction not a lot of
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civilization just open fields and
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shrubbery don't think Wilkerson's has
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had a customer and quite some time
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everything still left inside on the
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counter just as it was back when it was
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open inside the closet there's a coat
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hanging there there's a coat in the
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closet one of those instances where the
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highway runs completely parallel to the
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freeway just off to the left going the
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same direction just one goes a little
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quicker and faster oh and look off to
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the far left there's another train seems
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we've hit a dead end
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arrows pointing to the right okay I
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think we're good this is a slightly
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unusual they were driving driving under
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the interstate still on 66 proper
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off the dirt back onto the pavement and
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we're back back on track normally when
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you find a Sinclair gas station there's
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a dinosaur perched out front not in this
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case no prehistoric creatures roaming
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around here
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someone's been hanging out in here doing
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a little partying not only drinking but
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also target practice a couple of
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abandoned cars and a burned-out motel in
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the background something out of the
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walking dead now entering the wonderful
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town of Tucumcari more fantastic neon
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here than you can shake a stick at can
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still see the bulbs in this one even
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though the top portion of the side has
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fallen down is now laying on the ground
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even though some of the businesses they
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promoted no longer exist the signs are
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still holding strong T P curios is a
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gift shop there's something very
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interesting and bizarre tucked away at
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the corner my friend justice card warned
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me there's a mythical creature that
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roams around these parts
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a skeleton elk from Hades what that hell
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he just cruises around town in the back
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of this Ford no driver it's a ghost
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driver driving around then he'll keep
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the dog dog dog ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja
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ja ja ja that copyright justice card
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once inside the curio shop don't even
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think about asking to use the restroom
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or they will put you through that
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medieval torture device retro photo of
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the place from back in the day pretty
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much looks the same
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currently little doggies down here and a
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little doggie in this gentleman's lap
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right there this dogs everywhere this
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provides an update on how far we've come
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and how far we still have yet
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to go defunct rail West lounge have
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their brand the TW at the bottom
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of their side some businesses are opened
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and some are closed like this one which
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sits abandoned even though they did
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leave their lettering for the display
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side on hand as the night winds down
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just realized I need to get some dinner
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this place sucked me in like a tractor
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beam how can I say no to Mauricio the
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taco kid this is what we're dealing with
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I got three beef Ancelotti us with rice
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full of nacho platter here in the middle
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and are you hungry Jacob would you get
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meat night has fallen an illumination is
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now underway listen closely you can hear
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the sign the neon making noise
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that is awesome blue swallow motel one
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of the iconic structures of the Mother
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Road seen in so many postcards and
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promotional paraphernalia they park a
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car a classic car underneath the archway
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neon sign to keep people from possibly
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bumping into it and damaging it but how
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cool is this that's gonna do it for
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