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RE: Somewhere in Middle America
It is sad. Guymon, OK was always our little oasis and we'd stop there for the night before our push to Albuquerque. It's not a big town but all the essentials are there. There's a whole lot of nothing between Kansas City and Guymon, mostly abandoned towns or towns barely hanging on. There's even less between Guymon and Albuquerque.
I remember in the 70's when so many of those little mom & pop roadside restaurants, stores, and attractions were still around. There were tons of smaller "motels" too. Most of them were already fading into history by the end of the 80's. I never thought about it before but the advent of more reliable cars with higher MPGs probably contributed a lot to the demise of those small, remote towns.
Yeah, I mean some of those little hotels were sketch and made you instantly think of Bates Motel, but that was someone's living and livelihood. Perhaps even a family owned business that had been handed down for generations. I'm not the sort of person who likes to make a ton of stops when I am driving from point A to point B, but it's still sad that these places have faded into obscurity.