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  1. #1

    Mar 2004
    New Mexico
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    Tourist Trap Sites Along Old Highway 66

    I've never been much interested in coin-shooting, but once I wanted a place to test a metal detector so I went to the piece of Old US66 that used to be the main highway west of Laguna where it runs roughly parallel to the Interstate west and rejoins it a few miles west of the Acoma Sky City Casino. The road along there is spackled with ruins and skeletons of bars, motels, tourist-traps and curio shops.

    I wasn't looking for coins, but I found quite a number dating from the turn-ot-the-century onward until the 1950s.

    Similarly there's a starving tourist trap at the Continental Divide that's drying up or already dried, been there forever that might be worth some MD attention.

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  2. #2

    Mar 2004
    New Mexico
    616

    Re: Tourist Trap Sites Along Old Highway 66

    A couple more, though Cubero's more a ghost town and is slightly off the old 66, Budville qualifies
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  3. #3
    pw
    Apr 2003
    New Mexico
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    Re: Tourist Trap Sites Along Old Highway 66

    These places used to have a fine selection of rubber tomahawks and other assorted tourist items, now highly collectible. You could also get decent authentic Indian pottery at rock-bottom prices.
    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
    Marx

 

 

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