Hackberry Garage On Historic Route 66
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Hackberry Garage On Historic Route 66
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
HACKBERRY GARAGE ON HISTORIC ROUTE 66 by PRISCILLA BURGERS
The mannequins appear to be running the garage at the Hackberry Garage, on the property of the Hackberry General Store. On Historic Route 66, Hackberry General Store is full of vintage automobile and gas station memorabilia, as well as 50's era items. A former mining town, Hackberry was named by the first inhabitants, Charles Cummings, after the pellets or mattings that gathered on the cattle's long hair, probably caused from burrs picked up from bushes in the area. Silver mining developed the town, but when the ore began to yield less Hackberry became a ghost town.
Various service stations in the town served U.S. Route 66 travelers; all were shut down after Interstate 40 in Arizona bypassed the town. Interstate 40's 69-mile path between Kingman and Seligman diverges widely from the old 82-mile Highway 66 segment between these points, leaving Hackberry stranded sixteen miles from the new highway. Hackberry Road was not even given an off-ramp. The Northside Grocery (established 1934) and its Conoco Station were among the last to close, in 1978. Hackberry became a ghost town.
In 1992, itinerant artist Bob Waldmire re-opened the Hackberry General Store as a Route 66 tourism information post and souvenir shop on the former Northside Grocery site. At one point, he was the town's only resident.
Waldmire sold the store to John and Kerry Pritchard in 1998 due to local disputes regarding the environmental and aesthetic impact of quarries, which by that time were establishing themselves in the area to remove local stone for use in landscaping. The store remains in operation with a collection of vintage cars from the heyday of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona. 1950's era items add interest to the interior of this popular store and tourist stop.
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May 18th, 2016
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Comments (15)
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your special artistic work is Featured in the "Mannequin Statue Doll Sculpture Gallery" group! 3/4/17
Steven Bateson
Priscilla Burgers the Trucks Old Abandoned and Rusty Group is honored that you chose to submit your work to the group and we are proud to feature your magnificent image on the Homepage in the Featured Images.
Randy Rosenberger
Love the beauty of this piece and the quality and care that went into its composition! It is my pleasure to PROMOTE this piece of beauty on our FEATURED ARTWORK section of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group. Thanks for sharing! Liked & faved Randy B. Rosenberger (admin of WFS group)
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