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Two Guns, Arizona
On a recent vacation to Arizona my wife and I passed the Two Guns exit off of I-40.
I didn't stop but was curious so checked it out on Wikipedia. It's a ghost town now. It's demise was due to the closure/rerouting of Route 66. The original (and deteriorating) bridge in Two Guns which allowed Route 66 to traverse Canyon Diablo is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Look up Apache Death Cave for some more interesting history of the area.
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We also are blessed to have twin Arrows!
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Two Guns is a genuine weird place.
The older history, Indians dying in a cave is just bizarre.
The later tourist trap story is also strange.
It’s one of the only places that I have ever been to and I have been a lot of places that just gives me the Willie’s!
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Texas has Gun Barrel City and Cut and Shoot. Not ghost towns, just shooting related names.
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Not much to see in Two Guns itself.
We missed the bridge tho
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That's a gruesome tale. It's not PC to note how the Native folk were stickin' it to one another LONG before the white man came on the scene...
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On my first trip to California from Arkansas, U.S. Route 66 was the way
to go. I remember several narrow bridges that you didn't want to meet
a truck when crossing. Cattle guards across the highway and long
distances between towns. Also starting in Western Oklahoma were
large wooden signs cut out to look like a jack rabbit that said don't miss
Jack Rabbit, Arizona. If I remember correctly it was a one or two
building place with a tourist trap shop.
On a more recent trip out we took old Route 66 where we could, maybe
just to bring back some good old memories. My dad remembered
seeing parts of the old wooden highway off of U.S. 80 going across
Arizona.
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When my wife was a young girl her family stopped in Winona, AZ and bought her a pennant that said Winona Arizona. (her name is Winona)
A few years ago we drove up to Winona to visit her namesake. We couldn't even find the place.
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Drove to Calf in 67 on parts of old 66. Remember the Burma Shave signs along the road.
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I've passed this sign many times.
Also I have driven past many time in Colorado; Rifle and Gun Barrel.
Great fun.
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When my wife was a young girl her family stopped in Winona, AZ and bought her a pennant that said Winona Arizona. (her name is Winona)
A few years ago we drove up to Winona to visit her namesake. We couldn't even find the place.
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Just call her Darling.
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Originally Posted by pmanton
When my wife was a young girl her family stopped in Winona, AZ and bought her a pennant that said Winona Arizona. (her name is Winona)
A few years ago we drove up to Winona to visit her namesake. We couldn't even find the place.
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She can always go to Winona, MS.
It’s a town of 5,000 on I55.
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That's a gruesome tale. It's not PC to note how the Native folk were stickin' it to one another LONG before the white man came on the scene...
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Just like human beings everywhere else on planet earth throughout history.
There is pretty clear evidence that, sometimes, at least, the Anasazi ate their enemies. It makes some people unhappy, but there it is: Anasazi Ate Their Enemies | Science | AAAS
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She can always go to Winona, MS.
It’s a town of 5,000 on I55.
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I've always wanted to go visit the intersection of Highways 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, MS. Blues fans may know the (alleged) significance of this location.
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That reminds me,
I once lived in rural France (inland from Dieppe). I used to drive through a village called 'Roy'.
Cheerio,
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Hometown of Roi Rogiers, the noble cowherd?!
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I've always wanted to go visit the intersection of Highways 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, MS. Blues fans may know the (alleged) significance of this location.
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Yabol! There is a fair amount of controversy on exactly what location that is. I favor the one inside of Clarksdale.
And be sure and go to the Blues Museum located in the old Train Depot.
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I've never been to Two Guns but I did find this place.
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You ain't lived until you visited the AZ towns of: Why, Many Farms, Wolf Hole, Stone Cabin, Whippoorwill Springs, Skull Valley (I used to live there), Robbers Roost, Bear, Contention, Tin House, Nothing, Teec Nos ***, Hope (w/ sign: "you're now beyond Hope") & a few others. Warning: don't go to some of these alone & have a good 4wd... not going armed is suicidal.
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I seem to recall a Route 666 in AZ. Am I mistaken?
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I seem to recall a Route 666 in AZ. Am I mistaken?
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It was re-named State Route 191, I live 5 miles from it.
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666 used to be one of my bootlegger routes when I was first trucking. Dixie and I used to stop at the old truckstop at Twin Arrows. The real old one South of I-40............
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You ain't lived until you visited the AZ towns of: Why, Many Farms, Wolf Hole, Stone Cabin, Whippoorwill Springs, Skull Valley (I used to live there), Robbers Roost, Bear, Contention, Tin House, Nothing, Teec Nos ***, Hope (w/ sign: "you're now beyond Hope") & a few others. Warning: don't go to some of these alone & have a good 4wd... not going armed is suicidal.
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Don't forget Nowhere...
We also lived in Skull Valley for a spell ('99-06). Really liked it down there.
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Don't forget Nowhere...
We also lived in Skull Valley for a spell ('99-06). Really liked it down there.
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This one ran away from the far side creator thread on account of you.
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In Washington State there is a quaint little town on highway 12, it has a sign that reads "Entering Ethel".
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It was re-named State Route 191, I live 5 miles from it.
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Folks kept stealing the 666 signs. Kinda like the Luckenbach signs here in Texas.
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666 used to be one of my bootlegger routes when I was first trucking. Dixie and I used to stop at the old truckstop at Twin Arrows. The real old one South of I-40............
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This the one?
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On my first trip to California from Arkansas, U.S. Route 66 was the way
to go. I remember several narrow bridges that you didn't want to meet
a truck when crossing. Cattle guards across the highway and long
distances between towns. Also starting in Western Oklahoma were
large wooden signs cut out to look like a jack rabbit that said don't miss
Jack Rabbit, Arizona. If I remember correctly it was a one or two
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On a more recent trip out we took old Route 66 where we could, maybe
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seeing parts of the old wooden highway off of U.S. 80 going across
Arizona.
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I had never heard of Route 80 (from Savannah to SAN Deiago) until we stopped in Rodeo for lunch. It was sketched out on the cafe wall.
While this route now “officially” ends at the eastern outskirts of Dallas, the road (we had already been driving it sine leaving BroDave in Stephenville a day and a half ago) can still be followed.
One day would love to take a drive along the whole route.
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Been to Nowhere many times. My favorite weird name of a city is WHY Arizona.
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That reminds me,
I once lived in rural France (inland from Dieppe). I used to drive through a village called 'Roy'.
Cheerio,
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Come visit me, Roy, MT is only 43 miles down the road from me
We could also hit Two Dot, Buzby, Olive, Locate, Circle, Ringling, Lame Deer, Zero, Antelope, Bear Dance, Anaconda, Big Foot, Fishtail, Hungry Horse, Bohemian corner, Eureka, Dogtown, Rabbit town, Opportunity, Sleeping Buffalo, Stove Pipe, Sour Dough Flat and Pray. Maybe spend a night in the cabin on Bloody Dick creek.
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You ain't lived until you visited the AZ towns of: Why, Many Farms, Wolf Hole, Stone Cabin, Whippoorwill Springs, Skull Valley (I used to live there), Robbers Roost, Bear, Contention, Tin House, Nothing, Teec Nos ***, Hope (w/ sign: "you're now beyond Hope") & a few others. Warning: don't go to some of these alone & have a good 4wd... not going armed is suicidal.
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Interesting that Teec Nos P-o-s got censored in your post. (Let's see if it isn't with the dashes.) My wife once mistakenly called it "Toss No Mas", and that has stuck with us.
Two guns and Twin Arrows on I-40 always give us a smile on our trips to Flagstaff,
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As a boy in the late '40s and early '50s, I well remember the wooden boards that composed part of Route 80 from Phoenix to San Diego. We had relatives in Oceanside, CA, and used to visit them in the summers - they had a house on the beach there.
The boards were positioned cross-wise on the sandy areas; the wind blew the sand over the boards regularly, so the boards were evidently pulled up and re-positioned on the sand every now and then. This maintenance was irregular, so my dad had to drive slowly and carefully there at night to avoid mishaps.
On that same stretch, traveling in the early dawn, I remember on one trip the horizon lighting up with a big flash to the north. Atomic weapons were being tested in Nevada, and the detonations could be observed from hundreds of miles away.
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