Travel Route 66 - Frank Footer Fotos

Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2007. Film color is just different, and some cool film grain may even show itself in prints, so I'm glad I was still shooting film right thru to 2008. I remember standing in that cow field in Texas around this time, Cadillacs laid out in a row. I was elected official photographer for the day, without even submitting myself as a candidate. Probably because I had the biggest camera, but I didn't care, as I got to meet 66 travelers from around the world as they handed me their cameras and posed between the cars and the spray cans. Some had noticed me changing film, and were critical of going through all that trouble when a digital camera like they had would have been much more convenient. Fast forward almost 20 years, and I'm damn glad I have my big beautiful negatives instead of digital pics with the lowly pixel counts of those early cameras.  

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Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2012. Fabulous neon and color.

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Classic car on Route 66, parked in Tucumcari, New Mexico. From 2012.

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Classic Car, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2012.

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Motel Safari, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2008.

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Palomino Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2008.

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Tepee Curios, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2010.

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Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2010.

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Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2010.

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Apache Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2012.

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Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2008.

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Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2012.

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Monday, June 25, 2012 continued... Found the Buckaroo Motel on the west side of Tucumcari. So 50's looking.. "The Fine Art photography of Frank Romeo." Look for my Route 66 Galleries here: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/

Monday, June 25, 2012 continued... Buckaroo Motel. A neon sign in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Simple colors and landscape. "The Fine Art photography of Frank Romeo." Look for my Route 66 Galleries here: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/

Monday, June 25, 2012 continued... Found a closed down drive-in in Tucumcari, New Mexico. "The Fine Art photography of Frank Romeo." Look for my Route 66 Galleries here: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/

Monday, June 25, 2012 continued... Closed down drive-in in Tucumcari, New Mexico. I listened for the ghosts of the old car-hops. "The Fine Art photography of Frank Romeo." Look for my Route 66 Galleries here: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/

Monday, June 25, 2012 continued... Ruins of a drive-in in Tucumcari, New Mexico. "The Fine Art photography of Frank Romeo." Look for my Route 66 Galleries here: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/