One night in Tucumcari is all that one needs to take in the sites on Route 66. I walked from one end of town to the other and took a few pictures. It's sad to see how run down things have become over the years.
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Blue Swallow Motel was built in 1939 and opened in 1941.
Listed on the National Historic Register. One of the longest
continuously operated along New Mexico's Route 66.
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As the Blue Swallow Motel, the property was updated with neon signage proclaiming "TV" and "100% Refrigerated Air". It would continue in operation through both the heyday of post-war tourism on the old US Highway system (when roadside billboards advertised "Tucumcari Tonight!" and "2000 motel rooms" for many miles[5][6]) and the years of decline which followed the loss of US 66 traffic to a newly constructed Interstate 40 in the 1960s.
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