{"id":1924,"date":"2026-02-21T00:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/?page_id=1924"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:13:53","slug":"santa-rosa-moriarty-route-66-neon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/?page_id=1924","title":{"rendered":"Santa Rosa &#8211; Moriarty Route 66 NEON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Facebook-video-766074488834188.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reproduction sign of Pecos Truck Ranch by Art Overby from his Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Rosa identified itself as &#8220;The City of Lakes&#8221; and attracted travelers offering food, gas, lodging and recreation. Moriarty, just down the road past Clines Corners was a welcome stop before entering the big city of Albuquerque. Neon signs invited travelers to stop and visit. Many of the signs survived, some not.  The Rio Pecos Ranch sign was a very cool animated sign where the wheels turned and the truck driver would wave his arm.  The Moriarty Rotosphere is the only Rotosphere on Route 66.  It was a wondrous thing where the sphere would rotate on its post and the two hemispheres of the sphere would rotate, one clockwise, one counterclosckwise. Take a trip through our slideshow and enjoy the show.<\/p>\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;4&#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>Reproduction sign of Pecos Truck Ranch by Art Overby from his Facebook page. Santa Rosa identified itself as &#8220;The City of Lakes&#8221; and attracted travelers offering food, gas, lodging and recreation. Moriarty, just down the road past Clines Corners was a welcome stop before entering the big city of Albuquerque. Neon signs invited travelers 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-1924","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1924","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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1924\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/route66alliancenm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}