"It looked like a nifty Route 66 kind of place, and it is clean," Roiner said. They said they were at another hotel their first night in Winslow, but once they saw the neon at Earl's Motor Court, they decided to check in there instead. and Anne Rico, of Chandler, have been coming together in Winslow for a while as a rendezvous point between their towns. Lee said he has seen at least 12 people so far, stop and take their pictures next to the neon at his motel.ĭaniel Roiner, of Durango, Colo.
The Earls set out to do this for Winslow too, and the painted signs and neon have already impressed visitors in the three weeks since it has been up. The cars in the movie reinvent themselves and the town is born again! Lee said Cars is a Pixar animated movie that combines the spirit of Winslow, Holbrook and Joseph City along Route 66 into the story of a town that was once great, but then lost its confidence and fell into a slump after the building of the highway. "But after seeing the movie Cars, it gave us the inspiration to do this." "My wife and I have talked about doing this for some time," Lee said.
That is what Lee and Floranel Earl, owners of Earl's Motor Lodge, discovered after having new neon sign art installed on their Route 66 motel in Winslow.
0 kommentar(er)
