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On The Mother Road To Whiting Bros. Filling Station

5/28/2019

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Whiting Bros. Filling Station on Route 66 in New Mexico

A Relic Of The Past

     I've been driving past this Route 66 landmark for years and have stopped to photograph it many times. Unfortunately, most of those images are lost to time and upheaval so I have gone once again to photograph what's left of the Whiting Bros. Filling Station and Motel that is off of I-40 west of Albuquerque, and about 10 miles east of Grants. These photos were shot on May 26, 2019.
     The Whiting Bros. company was established in 1926, the same year that U.S. Route 66 was designated across the southwestern United States. Whiting Bros. was based in St. Johns and Holbrook, Arizona and, at it's peak, operated more than a hundred filling stations and fifteen motels (including at least forty on the former U.S. Route 66 through Arizona and New Mexico).
     This particular station had a motel, according to the sign, but that building was apparently torn down. Next to the gas station there is a concrete foundation with nothing on it.
​     All photos shot with a Motorola MotoX4 and edited with Snapseed.
Sign for abandoned Whiting Bros. Filling station and motel on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Abandoned Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Graffiti on the walls of abandoned Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Interior of abandoned Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Interior of Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Abandoned Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Abandoned building behind Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Wildflowers at the Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico
Abandoned Whiting Bros. filling station on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Ruins of Whiting Bros. filling station on Route 66 in New Mexico.
Ruins of abandoned Whiting Bros. gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico.

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