It was in the Postcards

By Gary Herron
I’m a project guy, a hobby kind of guy.

I’m basically a baseball hobbyist with a few other pursuits: Groucho Marx, the Old West, and railroads and my “newest” pursuit: collecting postcards of Albuquerque motels that once lined Route 66—basically Central Avenue and a few on Fourth Street NW—and arranging them in a binder matching what travelers would have seen entering the Duke City from the east and proceeding west.

Combing research with searches on eBay and via postcard sellers, I have managed to find about 70 one-time address of motels along Central Avenue, plus a handful still on North Fourth that also beckoned overnighters.
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