Welcome to Hackberry General Store
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Welcome to Hackberry General Store
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Welcome to Hackberry General Store" is a photograph of the main entrance to Hackberry General Store on Historic Route 66 in Hackberry, Arizona. A former mining town, Hackberry was named by the first inhabitants, Charles Cummings (Cummings Ranch). The name "Hackberry" was from 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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November 4th, 2013
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