SEEKING ROUTE 66 COCA COLA HOBBLESKIRT'S

[SODAPOPBOB]

Just for the fun of it here are the Painted Desert S&P Shakers I spoke about.

 

[wreckedangles]

These are fabulous! Hang on to those and someday pass those down to other family. Thanks for sharing.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I mistakenly said "Lodge" when I actually meant "Trading Post." The Painted Desert Trading Post was a private enterprise and located just outside of the park boundary. The photo below is what it looks like today. It blows my mind to think that my S&P Shakers passed through the door of this place one day long, long ago. As far as I know it is Federal property now and considered an archeological site, and totally off-limits to digging around. I bet a lot of cool soda pop bottles passed through their doors as well. One in particular I know of is a Navajo Land Beverages that I will post a picture of on the following page.

SPBOB

{The Painted Desert Trading Post - Old Route 66 - Near Holbrook, Arizona}

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

And here is a Navajo Land Beverages bottle that was commonly sold in the area back in the day. The last one of these I saw on e-bay sold for about $250.00.

Footnote: The museum I spoke of earlier had one of these bottles, but when I offered to trade my S&P Shakers for it, they declined saying they didn't have a "policy" for such trades.

 

[wreckedangles]

What a great shot. The building looks so lonely. No evidence of parking lot or poles or wires that would reference that it was once part of the outside world beyond it's real estate it is holding down. That Navajo Land bottle is a rare one. Those are just not found very easily.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

wreckedangles ~

Below is a photo postcard of the parking lot you mentioned. It used to sell Shell Gasoline. If you look real close in one of the windows you will see a set of my S&P shakers sitting there. Lol [] (Just kidding). I know I am getting a little carried away with this, but I guess it's because I'm just a fanatic for this sort of thing. Especially considering that I have several hundred souvenirs from these types of trading post and curio shops.

Here is a little history on The Painted Desert Trading Post itself.

In some ways perhaps the most notable of the eastern Arizona trading posts, possibly because the structure still stands, is Dotch Windsor's Painted Desert Trading Post. First a rancher, Dotch Windsor came to the painted desert area when he was running cattle in the 1940s. He built his trading post along the north side of Route 66 at an overlook of the Dead River wash east of the Petrified Forest National Monument. Dotch and his first wife operated the trading post together until the 1950s when they divorced. Dotch and Joy Nevin married and the two of them ran the trading post until 1956 when they divorced. But it was about this time that Route 66 was set to be re-aligned south closer to where Interstate 40 is today and Dotch soon closed and left the trading post to the weather. Fifty years later it still stands on a desolate old stretch of Route 66. Joy eventually settled in Holbrook where a street has been named for her down by the railroad tracks.