{"id":1871,"date":"2026-02-21T00:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/?page_id=1871"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:10:42","slug":"albuquerque-route-66-neon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/?page_id=1871","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque Route 66 NEON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Route 66 in Albuquerque featured 99 motels in the late fifties.  Add to that the restaurants, gas stations, and shops along the 13 miles of of Route 66 (Central Avenue) and you have what was called a &#8220;Galaxy of Neon.&#8221;   Take a trip through our slideshow and enjoy the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abqneonpostcard900-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abqneonpostcard900-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abqneonpostcard900-1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abqneonpostcard900-1-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abqneonpostcard900-1-600x393.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on an image to freeze the slideshow, click again to restart. The notation &#8220;gone&#8221; refers to the sign has been removed. The notation &#8220;dark&#8221; means that the sign is not working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-nextend-smartslider3\">[smartslider3 slider=&#8221;5&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Special thanks to all our photographers, Johnnie Meier, Cindy Carson, Rhys Martin, Jim Thole.<\/em> Additional images selected from around the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Route 66 in Albuquerque featured 99 motels in the late fifties. Add to that the restaurants, gas stations, and shops along the 13 miles of of Route 66 (Central Avenue) and you have what was called a &#8220;Galaxy of Neon.&#8221; Take a trip through our slideshow and enjoy the show. Click on an image to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1871","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1871\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}