Side Notes of Arizona Part 2

Hi!  Welcome to Part 2 of Side Notes of Arizona!  We had such a great time traveling through the northern part of this state.   Hope you have enjoyed our trip so far.

We are both Route 66 fans.  I have a grandfather who owned a filling station on Historic Route 66 in Stroud, OK.  It's kind of in our blood.  Love the nostalgia.
During the Route 66 days Winslow, AZ was a pretty happening place, then I 40 was built and the town kind of dried up like many other Route 66 towns did.   The towns people of Winslow have come up with a great idea to breathe a little life back into their community. We drove to Winslow just to see what they had done.

"Standin' on a Corner in Winslow Arizona"

"Such a fine site to see...there's a girl my Lord in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at me"

Ring any bells?  We love this song by the Eagles and Winslow Arizona has done a great job bringing tourism and tourism dollars in to help revitalize their downtown area with this great tribute to "Take it Easy"   See the Eagle and the couple painted in the window??  On the other side of this tribute is a very nice park, yup that's not a building, just a wall.  How cool is that?

 See I told you there would be an Eagle(s) that you would never forget! *wink* you are humming that song right now aren't you....  Glen Frye and Jackson Browne would be so proud

The next big stop for unscheduled pictures was at Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.   

 What a beautiful place. 

Glen Canyon Dam, Colorado River Storage Project

Dedicated by the First Lady Mrs. Lyndon B Johnson

September 22, 1966

named for Major John Wesley Powell

Looking down from the damn. 

Zoom in  a bit on this photo, see all the perforations in the canyon wall from blasting during construction??   Too see a bigger version of any these photo's just click on them

 

SO what did you think of Arizona???

 

It's on to Utah!

 

Keep snappin'

Jeanne